Claim: Says "by 4th grade, 86 percent of African-American boys and 82 percent  Hispanic boys are reading below proficiency levels."
Fact-check: Louise Slaughter tweets that four-in-five black and Hispanic fourth-graders aren't proficient in reading
Verdict: true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Steve Contorno
Date published: 2014-02-28T00:00:00