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Education fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about education. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

1,862 published reviews in this topic

PolitiFactEducation

"In Florida children are required to take their first standardized test within 30 days of beginning kindergarten and Gov. DeSantis wants to extend that requirement to preschoolers."

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactEducation

“Fewer than 2% of students are impacted whatsoever by the decisions we're making” to cut the budget.

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactEducation

“Parents in Vail, Arizona just took over the school board — all according to the rules. Voted in a whole new board, and immediately removed the mask mandate.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEducation

These 13 books “have been banned from schools in Florida.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactEducation

“President Obama would never give them long-term funding, and I did … I saved historically Black colleges and universities.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactEducation

“School allows students to be terrorized by colleagues who identify as ‘furries’”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitifactEducation

"Joe Biden quiere terminar con la elección de escuelas"

Publisher’s rating: Falso

PolitiFactEducation

Says his administration’s efforts have led to more school reopenings.

Publisher’s rating: Half True

FactCheck.orgEducation

Joe Biden "wants to end school choice, no school choice, and abolish charter schools."

Publisher’s rating: Distorts the Facts

FactCheck.orgEducation

“Harvard has REPLACED the American flag with the Palestinian flag."

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

Marianne WilliamsonEducation

"We are the only advanced industrialized nation that bases our educational funding on property taxes."

Publisher’s rating: Half True

Washington PostEducation

“We are watching what’s happening in the country … parents that are being attacked by the attorney general saying that somehow they are terrorists because they want to go to school board meetings.”

Publisher’s rating: Four Pinocchios

PolitiFactEducation

“Parents who challenge school curriculums are domestic terrorist(s)."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEducation

"For four years, I was a full professor at the University of Pennsylvania."

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactEducation

“Many of these teachers are soldiers, ex-soldiers, ex-policeman.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactEducation

Students have to repeat the same grade next year.

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactEducation

Says Biden supports a school choice ban that would impact 74,000 Wisconsin students.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEducation

“Hillsboro school district has already placed Antifa, BLM in their curriculum as Justice Fighters. Fourth grade.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEducation

California Assembly Bill 1955 “would allow schools to secretly, socially and perhaps medically transition your child without your knowledge and consent."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEducation

“The Walker-Kleefisch administration slashed $800 million from public schools."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False