FLORIDA LOTTERY EDUCATION CONTRIBUTIONS

The Florida Lottery announced that educational contributions from the Lottery have reached 36 billion dollars since the lottery began. Florida’s public schools have received more than 11.6 billion dollars, colleges and universities have received a combined total of 8.4 billion dollars, and 6.2 billion dollars has gone to fund the Bright Futures Scholarship program allowing more than 840,000 students to attend college since 1997.

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