Claim: Before 2005, "the percentage of" Texas high school "students meeting the college readiness standards of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board stood at 28% in English and 42% in math. Those figures stood at 65% and 66% in 2013."
Fact-check: Justice Don Willett accurately recaps surge in Texas students meeting college readiness standards
Verdict: true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: W. Gardner Selby
Date published: 2016-05-20T00:00:00