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27 October
5:45 pm

ninety five percent of a teacher's time is spent with five percent of the students

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Zach Lahn, at Iowa Governor General Election Debate (KCRG / The Gazette)

5:45 pm
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Why we checked itA specific statistical claim about how teacher time is distributed, used to justify targeted funding policy — verifiable and potentially misleading if inaccurate.
What we foundNo credible source confirms the specific claim that 95% of a teacher's time is spent on 5% of students; available research points to substantially lower figures for time lost to disruptive students.
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