Claim: " voted in favor of establishing the Department of Education, and yet he gets in a debate and says we should get rid of the Department of Education and send all the education issues back to the states."
Fact-check: Mitt Romney says Newt Gingrich wanted Education Department, then didn't
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Becky Bowers
Date published: 2012-01-25T00:00:00