“The NY state budget covers 96% of eligible preschoolers”
What PolitiFact found
The New York state budget has funding for 96% of eligible four-year-olds to go to prekindergarten. But this group is smaller than the total population of four-year-olds. In addition, not all districts offer pre-K.
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In short
Kathy Hochul (Governor of New York) made this claim around 9 May 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 18 May 2023, 9 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Kathy Hochul has 7 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK5AO_KNIrE
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