Former President Donald Trump said during CNN town hall that many teachers are ex-soldiers. Federal data shows 2% of teachers are former military. Trump also said many teachers are ex-police, but we found no data to support this.
We asked a Trump spokesperson for evidence that"many" teachers are ex-soldiers or former police officers, and he sent back a repeat of Trump’s words and a link to his comments at the NRA convention.
Our research found that Trump exaggerated how many teachers are veterans; we found no national data on how many teachers are ex-police officers.The U.S. Education Department keeps statistics on teachers who are military veterans. No matter how you slice the data, it shows former servicemembers represent a tiny fraction of teachers nationwide.shows about 2% of the nation’s approximately 5.4 million teachers are military veterans — roughly 107,000.
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