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Eric Fingerhut: Claimed during the 2004 campaign that it is actually cheaper for students to go elsewhere and pay out-of-state tuition than to stay in Ohio; Cleveland Scene, an alternative weekly, independently disputed the claim, while noting Ohio's underfunding of higher education was a real and serious problem in its own right. This is a journalistic fact-check from an alt-weekly, not one of the site's four named fact-checking organizations, so it is recorded here rather than as a checked claim.
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- Date
- 2004
- Evaluations
- Cleveland Scene
- https://www.clevescene.com/news/fingerhuts-fable-1486474
- Said
- false, per a comparison of Ohio State's in-state tuition (about $5,664/year) to out-of-state tuition at the University of Kentucky (about $11,944) and West Virginia University (about $12,060)
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- https://www.clevescene.com/news/fingerhuts-fable-1486474
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- statement
- What
- Claimed during the 2004 campaign that it is actually cheaper for students to go elsewhere and pay out-of-state tuition than to stay in Ohio; Cleveland Scene, an alternative weekly, independently disputed the claim, while noting Ohio's underfunding of higher education was a real and serious problem in its own right. This is a journalistic fact-check from an alt-weekly, not one of the site's four named fact-checking organizations, so it is recorded here rather than as a checked claim.
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