Claim: "There is a big correlation between third grade reading level and whether you go to college or whether you go to prison. And in Florida right now only 56 percent of kids are coming out of third grade at third grade reading level."
Fact-check: 3rd grade statistics from Jeff Greene mostly hold up
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Katie Akin;Lucia Geng
Date published: 2018-08-07T00:00:00