Tom Gallagher's Education Commercial

Kevin Begos fact-checks the shit out of Tom Gallagher's latest campaign commercial. Personally, if I was Tom I wouldn't brag about having a hand in a educational system that got an F for science in 2005.

The scariest tidbit the Fordham Institute found wrong with the way Florida teaches science.

The institute took Florida to task for a "prevalence of errors in fact and presentation" in some subject areas. Example: Florida's standards say a second-grader should know "a thermometer measures the amount of heat absorbed by an object."

"This is careless and false: a thermometer measures temperature, or better, changes in temperature, not the amount of heat absorbed," the report says. "We hope that any second-grade teacher who cannot distinguish between heat and temperature will not pass this disability on to the students."

Apparently, Jeb Bush's education appointees are confusing a thermometer with a turkey baster. Keep on bragging, Tom.