“When California faced a budget crisis," Christy Smith "voted to lay off teachers and then voted to increase her pay.”
What PolitiFact found
As a member of the Newhall School Board, Smith voted in 2012 to lay off teachers and in 2013 to notify teachers of possible layoffs. She also voted soon after those moves to rehire for nearly all of the positions.
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In short
Congressional Leadership Fund (Super PAC that works to elect Republicans to the House) made this claim around 9 September 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 24 September 2020, 15 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Congressional Leadership Fund has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
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