The Georgia Lottery Commission held a press conference Tuesday, July 15 to hand Gov. Perdue a symbolic check for $10 billion, representing the amount raised for education since the lottery was instituted 15 years ago.
That’s certainly good news for public education, and maybe the point of the press conference was more to make lottery employees feel good. But it was disappointing that four TV news cameras recorded the event but no journalists were there to ask questions. One question specifically: With lottery funds achieving revenue increases for 15 straight years and a very large reserve fund of over $500 million, why aren’t there enough pre-K slots as were originally promised?
