North Carolina still does not have a lottery. There are millions being spent on it already, but there's court challenges that seriously question the legality of the lottery, but that hasn't stopped all the things associated with gambling from appearing in North Carolina.

In the latest news, the state's charter schools are now screaming and yelling because they're not getting a portion of the lottery proceeds (remember the proceeds? the ones the Democrats claim "may or may not" generate revenue for the state?)

Currently, the "profits" from the lottery are designed to do nothing -- well nothing associated with education, anyway. The lottery is supposed to be used to make class sizes smaller in government schools -- of course there is ZERO actual evidence that reducing class size has any beneficial effect on the students. In fact, just this year the results of a 4-year study in North Carolina were released -- in poor schools where the class sizes were reduced, test scores went DOWN.

But by screaming "it's for the children," and "more money for education," the state gets to have more money. Keep in mind -- the only part of the education lottery that goes to "schools" are the "proceeds." Therefore, ANYTHING that can be remotely considered an expense will go to a bureaucrat's pocket -- and that's a LOT of money.

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