“Twenty-eight out of every 100 students in school speak Spanish — 28.”
Joe Biden
President. Radio interview. Claim dated 6 May 2024.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse
What FactCheck.org found
Biden conflates this statistic with the percentage of Hispanic students in the U.S. But not all Hispanic students speak Spanish.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (President) made this claim around 6 May 2024. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 May 2024, 4 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Er-bbx4Wk&t=1769s
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Related checks
- PolitiFact: Half True“24 of every 100 kids in school today speak Spanish.”