Claim: Says 23 percent of ninth graders in Newark will graduate with a high school diploma in four years and "we spend $100,000 on their education in those four years, more than is spent on any other set of students in the United States."
Fact-check: Chris Christie says graduation rate, spending levels in Newark public schools show the 'model is broken'
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Erin O'Neill
Date published: 2011-11-17T00:00:00