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Atlanta Journal-Constitution

3/15/2010

State schools superintendent Kathy Cox says hiking the price of lottery tickets could help boost education funding in Georgia.

Cox floated the idea on Thursday during a state Board of Education meeting, saying a 50-cent surcharge per ticket could bring in $350 million a year and help address Georgia’s massive education funding gap.

State education funding has fallen by nearly $1 billion this year alone, according to a spokesman for Cox. School systems are scrambling to overcome funding gaps of their own through staff cuts and other measures.

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