Claim: "North Carolina spends $855 less per student than it did before the Great Recession, and we have one of the lowest per pupil spending levels in the nation."
Fact-check: Cooper says North Carolina's education spending per student hasn't bounced back since the recession
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Will Doran
Date published: 2016-03-21T00:00:00