Pre-K is coming
Having not financially strapped the state enough, the senate has passed Pre-K. The KNS notes:
Under the plan, $25 million in lottery money would be dished out as grants to school districts willing to help pay for the cost of preschool classrooms in their district.
The tax on hope was pitched specifically for college tuition. I think secondarily money from the lottery was also for capital expenditures in public schools. It was not for Pre-K programs. Tennessee’s jackpot congress strikes again.
May 13th, 2005 at 12:13 pm
And when the lottery money slows down (it always does, even losers learn) pre K will suddenly face a funding “crisis” leading, you guessed it, to increased taxes.
The same thing will happen to the monies meant for college.