“Half the kids in this country, when they graduate, can’t read their diploma.”
What PolitiFact found
Two-thirds of American high school graduates have underdeveloped reading skills, measured by common grade-level standards. But people in this category are not so functionally illiterate that they cannot read a diploma.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Tommy Tuberville (U.S. Senator, R-Ala.) made this claim around 2 March 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 20 March 2023, 18 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Tommy Tuberville has 6 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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