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Megan Gildow of the News-Sun newspaper in Springfield, Ohio, covers local school districts, their teachers, students and anything in between. Districts she covers include: Springfield City Schools, Clark-Shawnee Local Schools, Northeastern Local Schools, Northwestern Local Schools, Tecumseh Local Schools, Southeastern Local Schools, Greenon Local Schools, Catholic Central Schools, Emmanuel Christian, and area charter schools.

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Home > Blogs > Springfield Schools News and Issues > Archives > 2008 > October > 06 > Entry

Do candidates pass the truth test on education?

By Megan Gildow | Monday, October 6, 2008, 06:44 PM

I’d like to introduce you all to one of my favorite new Web sites: politifact.com.

The St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly developed this fun fact-checker site that checks the accuracy of each presidential and running mate candidate’s claims. They were fact checking live last week during the vice presidential debate and also vet candidate’s statements in interviews, speeches and campaign ads.

Here’s the section on education statements. And it very well illustrates my point last week that education isn’t a hot topic in this election: On the list of most recent checks, Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul claims are pretty close to the top.

You can look by candidate, by subject, by political party and by a whole-lot-of-other-things, too.

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