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Mark Dayton
Mark Dayton
stated on July 14, 2010 a campaign ad
"Tim Pawlenty has cut education funding in Minnesota. Classrooms are overcrowded. Districts have gone to four-day school weeks."
Half-True
By Erin Mershon • July 29, 2010
Leticia Van de Putte
Leticia Van de Putte
stated on June 25, 2010 a speech at the Texas Democratic Party convention
Says Bill White's program to bring dropouts back to school was "so successful that almost every city in our state has replicated" it.
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • July 27, 2010
Yvette McGee Brown
Yvette McGee Brown
stated on June 22, 2010 a campaign speech
"Education Week rates Ohio schools in the top five in the nation."
True
By Reginald Fields • July 24, 2010
Ted Strickland
Ted Strickland
stated on July 6, 2010 a campaign speech
"In Ohio, we invested in our children, raising school funding by 5.5 percent in the last budget."
False
By Aaron Marshall • July 23, 2010
Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert
stated on July 6, 2010 a segement on The Colbert Report
"It turns out that Texas has an $18 billion budget shortfall and can't afford its new science textbooks."
Mostly True
July 23, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on July 13, 2010 an interview with CNBC
"We have more kids take the SAT than any other state in the nation. I mean a high percentage of our kids take the SAT."
Mostly False
July 22, 2010
Scott Hochberg
Scott Hochberg
stated on June 25, 2010 a speech at a caucus at the Texas Democratic convention
"Only about a third" of Texans who enroll in college graduate.
True
July 13, 2010
Alex Sink
Alex Sink
stated on July 8, 2010 a statement on her campaign website
"Florida’s high school graduation rate falls well below the national average."
True
July 8, 2010
Bud Chiles
Bud Chiles
stated on July 7, 2010 a statement on his campaign website
"Today, Florida is in 50th place in spending on education."
Half-True
July 7, 2010
DuBose Porter
DuBose Porter
stated on June 10, 2010 for DuBose Porter's gubernatorial campaign
Says he "fought against $3 billion in cuts to public education since 2003."
True
By Willoughby Mariano • June 28, 2010
Lincoln Chafee
Lincoln Chafee
stated on May 4, 2010 a candidate forum
"Fifty-three percent of teens in Central Falls are getting pregnant."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 25, 2010
Roy Barnes
Roy Barnes
stated on February 12, 2010 a speech
Georgia could get money for schools by scraping "the gold off the gold dome" of the state Capitol.
Pants on Fire!
By Jim Tharpe • June 15, 2010
John Oxendine
John Oxendine
stated on June 4, 2010 a campaign video on his website
Georgia has "a dropout rate that’s higher" than Alabama's.
True
By Willoughby Mariano • June 14, 2010
Thurbert Baker
Thurbert Baker
stated on April 29, 2010 a speech
"Our school test scores are right at the bottom."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • June 8, 2010
John Oxendine
John Oxendine
stated on June 3, 2010 in a video on his Web site.
"We have SAT scores lower than that of Alabama."
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • June 5, 2010
Kathy Miller
Kathy Miller
stated on May 18, 2010 an op-ed article
"A Houston school district analysis found that the (State Board of Education) more than quadrupled the number of historical figures students must learn about."
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • June 3, 2010
Empower Texans
Empower Texans
stated on May 14, 2010 a Web video
"There are 321,092 public school teachers in Texas. And there are 313,850 non-teachers in our public schools."
Mostly True
May 28, 2010
Rodney Ellis
Rodney Ellis
stated on May 14, 2010 an interview.
Says that in three legislative sessions, his proposals opening pre-kindergarten to all Texas 4-year-olds never got heard or voted out of committee.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 25, 2010
Robert Koons
Robert Koons
stated on May 18, 2010 an opinion piece published in the Austin American-Statesman
"In the history department at the University of Texas, out of 50 registered voters, only one is a Republican."
False
May 23, 2010
John Barrasso
John Barrasso
stated on May 10, 2010 an interview on Fox News
On military recruiters at Harvard, Elena Kagan "took a position and the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that she was wrong."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 10, 2010
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