Recently Tennessee has found itself fighting a shortage of revenues. This lack of tax dollars has put funding for many state programs in jeopardy. One thing that is most concerning is the funding for education. Many colleges and universities in Tennessee go without the funding to support students in their higher education. These schools have had to increase tuition substantially over the past few years to give only a minimum of scholarships away. Tennessee has also lost several students seeking a higher education to other states because they are unable to provide scholarships.

Colleges and universities are not the only schools struggling with funding in Tennessee. Many schools in Tennessee have been opened for over twenty years. These schools can not even retain enough money to even do minor repairs such as replacing of carpets, providing adequate dining facilities, providing more up to date books, and a major technological need, computers. Due to the poor funding for higher education and technology to help children to preserve a well rounded education Tennessee should pass a bill that wo

In the whole year of 2000 Georgia lottery sales totaled $2.3 billion dollars and more than $683 million dollars of that was returned to education; but some people still argue that the Georgia lottery revenue is too unreliable and that the funding for such a scholarship will not always be available. This is why Georgia dedicates it funds primarily to scholarships instead of continual expenses such as teacher salaries. Georgia also puts money from the lottery on reserve in case they fall short of their estimated budget or do not have enough to completely fund the HOPE program.

Tennessee state senator Steve Cohen is the same person who has proposed a bill to pass a Tennessee state lottery for the past seventeen years. He finds that his only problem was to persuade the legislatures that he would not be encouraging gambling by starting a lottery. He states that, "Many people argue that a lottery law will have to allow casinos to be opened but, in talking to state legislatures they agreed that there would be certain prohibitions on the rights of opening things such as casinos and other gambling facilities." These legislatures and Steve Cohen r

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