Claim: If the mayor were really serious about supporting Philly's schoolchildren and handling our city's looming fiscal crisis, he could begin by slashing the size of his own administration, which is already 45 percent larger than his predecessor's and 40 percent more costly.
Fact-check: Is Jim Kenney's staff 40 percent more expensive than Nutter's?
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Mark Dent
Date published: 2016-04-13T00:00:00