Summary
In late 2003, Georgians were worried about the future viability of the lottery to sustain HOPE, the state's enormously popular college scholarship program. The fear was that soaring enrollments, because of rapidly expanding population growth, would soon outstrip funds in HOPE's coffers that pay tuition, fees and book allowances for high school graduates with a "B" or better grade average who are bound for one of the state's 34 public universities and colleges.
The University of Georgia's Carl Vinson Institute of Government predicted that the program could be struggling with a $140 million negative balance by 2007, and a 20-member commission formed to rescue HOPE - acronym for Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally - recommended cutting out the subsidizing of student fees, and eliminating the yearly $300 book allowance.See the full content of this document
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