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13 October
5:44 pm

We are number fifty by the US News Report, number fifty in the country for our education outcomes.

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Bobby Charles, at Maine Governor General Election Debate (WGME)

5:44 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific ranking claim about Maine's education outcomes from a named source (US News Report) that is verifiable and central to the speaker's attack on his opponent.
What we foundMaine has ranked last on one specific U.S. News metric (proportion of public high schools in the top 25%), but the U.S. News Best States overall education category currently ranks Maine 38th, not 50th, and the methodology behind the last-place high school ranking is contested due to missing AP data.
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