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“In addition to other appropriated funds, 100 percent of the lottery revenues must be appropriated entirely and solely for public education, including, but not limited to, the programs specified in this provision.”
The dispute involves the interpretation of this statement as well as who’s interpreting it.
“Lottery proceeds go to the state’s general fund. Usually this is about $300 million,” said Ken Stroupe, Gov. Allen’s press secretary, insisting that lottery proceeds never have been earmarked for education. “The aid to education comes from the general fund. This year it was approximately $5.2 billion. The amount education received did not increase because of the lottery money.
“Education would have received that amount anyway. It’s just a word game.... The governor wanted to give this money back to the localities where they could decide what to do with it.”
In a recent letter to the House of Delegates, Gov. Allen blasted the Democrats, saying “...this bill neither returns lottery revenues to localities nor commits even one dollar of new resources to public education.
“It keeps the lottery revenues flowing into the state’s general fund, where they will be dedicated to education in name only.”
As chief sponsor of the Virginia Education Act, Marian Van Landingham, D-Alexandria, disagrees.
“It’s appalling that the governor has the nerve to keep saying that this money isn’t going to education,” she said. “This act specifically earmarks this money now. If we didn’t pass this act the money might have been appropriated for education, but knowing the governor’s priorities it might have been aoDrooriated for orisons
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