“Project 2025 would defund K-12 schools.”
What PolitiFact found
Project 2025 would phase out some, if not all, federal funding for public K-12 schools and return the responsibility to the states. Schools also get a lot of their funding from state and local sources.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Kamala Harris (Vice president of the United States and Democratic presidential nominee) made this claim around 28 August 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 6 September 2024, 9 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Kamala Harris has 63 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 13 of them false or fake, 40 misleading or mixed and 7 true.
This check was done by PolitiFact, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.