It's probably not that high
"In West Virginia, we have 20,000 jobs in which we don’t have skilled workers."
— PolitiFact West Virginia on Friday, December 6th, 2019
Cooper sought even higher pay
Says Governor Cooper has vetoed "every single teacher pay raise we've ever passed."
— PolitiFact North Carolina on Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
Billions would have been right
Says Congress gave Wall Street "trillions of dollars of zero interest loans."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, October 25th, 2019
Needs context
Says Elizabeth Warren "was paid $400,000 to teach one class."
— PunditFact on Wednesday, September 18th, 2019
A bit of a stretch
"We are the only advanced industrialized nation that bases our educational funding on property taxes."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, July 31st, 2019
Number is close, blame is more complicated
"More than a million Wisconsinites have voted to raise their own property taxes because Republicans have failed to fully fund our public schools for the past eight years."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, May 17th, 2019
Students went unserved
Says there’s "no wait list" for private school vouchers
— PolitiFact North Carolina on Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
Biden has history
Says Joe Biden "voted for the Iraq War, for mass incarceration, and for the Bankruptcy Reform Act while voting against gay marriage, reproductive rights, and school desegregation."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, April 26th, 2019
Data not as conclusive
"Nearly half of public school teachers in Texas are working a second or a third job, not for kicks, not for extra spending cash, but just to make ends meet."
— PolitiFact Texas on Tuesday, March 19th, 2019
Context needed
Says the University of Missouri "has been cleared of involvement" in academic fraud involving student athletes.
— PolitiFact Missouri on Saturday, March 16th, 2019
Grade inflation on graduation claim
Says he "raised graduation rates to nearly 90 percent."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, October 31st, 2018
Yes on income; property and gas less clear
Says Tony Evers will "raise property taxes, raise income taxes and raise gas taxes by as much as a dollar a gallon."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, October 11th, 2018
Sluggish response by many to ECOT
Says Mike DeWine took $40,000 from ECOT and "did nothing while the online for-profit school lied about enrollment and took millions meant for our kids."
— PolitiFact Ohio on Wednesday, September 12th, 2018
Both parts of claim partly accurate, partly overstated
"When two judges said it was illegal to fire a teacher" who viewed pornography at school, "Tony Evers worked with Republicans and Democrats and changed the law."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, September 12th, 2018
But words on the screen in the ad don’t match what the narrator says
"When the law stopped Tony Evers from revoking a teacher's license for viewing pornography, Tony worked with lawmakers from both parties to change the law so offenders could be kicked out of the classroom."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, August 29th, 2018
Clanked off the backboard
"LeBron’s ‘I Promise School’ To Cost Taxpayers Millions Of Dollars Every Year"
— PolitiFact Ohio on Thursday, August 9th, 2018
Whether teacher's behavior violated state law key
Says Tony Evers "didn't revoke the license of a teacher caught spreading pornography and commenting on the bodies of middle-school girls."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Monday, August 6th, 2018
One of several received since 1997
"There are a lot of private charters. And in fact, (Tony Evers) sought and received the largest charter school grant in the country from the Trump-DeVos administration to start new charter schools in Wisconsin."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Tuesday, July 3rd, 2018
Not the most realistic comparison
"Each year ICE detains someone, it costs taxpayers over $50,000. For comparison, by the way, that's four times the amount the federal government spends on each child in our public schools."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, May 11th, 2018
Overstates starting salaries
"Welders are coming out of their tech schools at $28 an hour" and "pipefitters are making six figures."
— PolitiFact Florida on Thursday, May 10th, 2018