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Latest Fact-Checks In Education

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 25, 2011 in the State of the Union address:
"As many as a quarter of our students aren’t even finishing high school."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 18, 2011 in his inaugural address.:
Says he’s the first Aggie governor of Texas.
True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 19, 2011
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on December 29, 2010 in a news release:
"Recent studies have confirmed that any academic benefits of government funded preschool disappear by the fourth grade."
False
By James B. Nelson • January 16, 2011
Robert Flanders
Robert Flanders
stated on December 17, 2010 in an economic forum:
"Every dropout costs us $72,000 for the life of that person."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 16, 2011
Mike Haridopolos
Mike Haridopolos
stated on January 12, 2011 in comments to reporters.:
"Whether you like to admit it or not, half our general revenue goes to education."
True
By Aaron Sharockman • January 14, 2011
Allen West
Allen West
stated on January 2, 2011 in a Fox News TV show:
"We had an amendment in the health care law that said the federal government is going to take over education."  
False
By Amy Sherman • January 11, 2011
Chain email
Chain email
stated on January 7, 2011 in a chain e-mail:
Members of Congress and their families and staff are exempt from repaying student loans.
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 11, 2011
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on January 3, 2011 in a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece.:
"In 1998, nearly half of Florida's fourth-graders were functionally illiterate. Today, 72% of them can read."
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman • January 3, 2011
Mike Villarreal
Mike Villarreal
stated on November 30, 2010 in a press release:
Texas "children may have a teacher who never spent one minute practicing teaching."
True
December 26, 2010
Rees Lloyd
Rees Lloyd
stated on December 10, 2010 in a website posting:
Portland Public Schools invites "well-paid, well-fed school bureaucrats, administrators, teachers, other staff, non-needy students, affluent parents of students, and other adults, including on the other extreme the adult homeless, illegal aliens, fanatical Muslim terrorists, or drug addicted street people, to enjoy cheap breakfasts in taxpayer-paid school facilities amidst school children."
Mostly False
By Janie Har • December 25, 2010
Boyd Richie
Boyd Richie
stated on December 13, 2010 in a press release.:
Says Texas Republican leaders "have proposed laying off thousands of teachers."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • December 24, 2010
Martin Kiar
Martin Kiar
stated on December 14, 2010 in a meeting:
"You can go to Georgia and make about $6,000 more a year as a teacher."  
True
By Amy Sherman • December 21, 2010
Kitty Boitnott
Kitty Boitnott
stated on December 8, 2010 in a news conference.:
Teachers "are working their third consecutive year -- some longer than that -- without salary increases."
False
By Warren Fiske • December 17, 2010
Mt. Hood Community College
Mt. Hood Community College
stated on December 9, 2010 in the college's website:
Mt. Hood Community College is No. 1 on average and top faculty pay and benefits. 
Mostly True
By Janie Har • December 15, 2010
John Mica
John Mica
stated on November 18, 2010 in an interview with MSNBC.:
"On the question on the DREAM Act, no -- no to granting lower tuition to illegals."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • December 14, 2010
Donna Garner
Donna Garner
stated on December 9, 2010 in a newsletter:
Says Joe Straus "was co-author of a bill that would have allowed Planned Parenthood to control public school sex education."
Pants on Fire!
By Ciara O'Rourke • December 13, 2010
Organizing for America
Organizing for America
stated on December 6, 2010 in a press release.:
"An overwhelming majority of Americans support passage of the DREAM Act, which would provide a path to citizenship for undocumented youth willing to work for a college degree or serve in our armed forces."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 10, 2010
Beaverton
Beaverton
stated on November 17, 2010 in a press release:
Last year, Beaverton School District had the highest number of homeless students ever recorded in Oregon. 
False
By Janie Har • December 4, 2010
Todd Staples
Todd Staples
stated on November 11, 2010 in a Web post.:
In "the fall of 2009, only 21 percent of Texas high school graduates enrolled in a four-year public university."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 3, 2010
Angel Taveras
Angel Taveras
stated on November 27, 2010 in an appearance on WPRI-12's Newsmakers:
Providence teachers "can go five or six years without an evaluation."
Mostly True
By Cynthia Needham • December 3, 2010
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