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Reporters fail to vet teacher’s $53 per day story

By Becket Adams
Published May 16, 2018 5:37pm ET
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Reporters fail to vet teacher’s $53 per day story
A woman pushes a stroller past a group of public school teachers picketing outside Amundsen High School in Chicago. (AP photo) | Sitthixay Ditthavong

Newsrooms have been quick to report that a certain teacher in North Carolina earns just $53 per day to educate his students.

Unfortunately, most reporters didn’t bother to check the numbers. If they did, they would’ve found as PolitiFact did that there is a slight discrepancy in the math.

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