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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

Students no longer say the Pledge of Allegiance in schools.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEducation

“Miami-Dade County has banned” Amanda Gorman’s poem “from elementary schools.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

Washington PostEducation

"Under threat of having their licenses revoked, gay teachers have been forced to take down pictures of their spouses from their desks and censor their classroom materials.”

Publisher’s rating: Two Pinocchios

PolitiFactEducation

“Columbia University announced classes will be remote for the remainder of the school year.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Washington PostEducation

"Nationally, the average training for cosmetologists is 11 times longer than the training for emergency medical technicians.”

Publisher’s rating: Two Pinocchios

FactCheck.orgEducation

I got student debt forgiveness “passed by a vote or two.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEducation

Florida is "the 45th in state education funding."

Publisher’s rating: True

PolitiFactEducation

“I taught at the University of Pennsylvania for four years.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

Washington PostEducation

“As a parent it’s tough to catch everything. So when my son showed me his reading assignment, my heart sunk. It was some of the most explicit material you can imagine.”

Publisher’s rating: Lacks context

PolitiFactEducation

President Joe Biden’s American Relief Plan “has a lot of money in it for schools, but if you really look at it … it says that the school money is going to go out until the year 2028.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly True

PolitiFactEducation

"Studies show that children who go to preschool are nearly 50% more likely to finish high school and go on to earn a two- or four-year degree, no matter their background they came from."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly True

PolitiFactEducation

Harvard Medical School students “learn how to care for LGBTQIA+ infants.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEducation

“The percentage of students that are going to college (in West Virginia) has been declining for five years.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly True

PolitiFactEducation

Video shows teacher teaching gender pronouns and being confronted by students

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEducation

Video shows the aftermath of a school prank in which students drank lemonade containing “horse laxatives.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEducation

"In 2015, when Terry McAuliffe was governor, the Virginia Department of Education promoted incorporating critical race theory lens in education...They were trying to indoctrinate kids.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactEducation

“24 of every 100 kids in school today speak Spanish.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactEducation

A new Missouri bill “would put teachers on the sex offense registry if they ‘contribute to social transition’” of transgender students, including by using gender-affirming pronouns.

Publisher’s rating: Mostly True

PolitiFactEducation

“There’s still (only) a handful of school districts" doing no in-person instruction.

Publisher’s rating: True

PolitiFactEducation

Schools stopped teaching children cursive so they wouldn’t be able to read the U.S. Constitution and other historical documents.

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire