Claim: Says "160,000 kids stay home every day because they are afraid to go to school because of bullying."
Fact-check: Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle says 160,000 students stay home from school every day because they're afraid of being bullied
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Erin O'Neill
Date published: 2011-09-15T00:00:00