http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/12/18/lottery-scholarships-recommended-for-big-cut Comments On: Lottery scholarships recommended for big cut by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Thu, 23 May 2013 02:45:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by offside]]> Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:13:05 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Ozark Homesteader]]> Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:44:00 -0600 Arkansas Times
If you can only get your hands on 90% of what you need to enter college, you might as well have nothing. Arkansas colleges will not let you in the doors if you ALMOST have enough money to attend.

If these legislators get their way we can expect a big drop in college enrollment and we'll be back on the road to staying old backwards 48th place Arkansas 20 years from now. They are shrinking the Lottery Scholarship down to the size it can be drown in a bathtub.....we know this trick!

I have 2 kids at the U of A. The oldest returned a year ago by taking out the max amount of student loans. The youngest is today a junior making mostly A's with a couple of B's as she told me when she got home this afternoon. She would have never been able to go to the U of A without the Arkansas Lottery Scholarship. Any less in the amount she was awarded would have doomed her ability to attend.

If we lived in Cuba we wouldn't have to worry about how to send our kids to college.....isn't that a sad thought? The 2 best things that have happened for average Arkansans since ARkids way back there has been Mike Beebe's reduction of the sales tax on groceries and Bill Halter's success in getting the lottery passed and creating the Arkansas Lottery Scholarship. Don't let these things fall apart. Especially as the U of A spends 370 million on even fancier sports facilities.

Our national economy has sucked since 2008. We've hit bottom but we're slowly heading back up the hill. We'll see more progressive actions out of Obama in his 2nd term. Don't gut the Arkansas Lottery Scholarship just before we round the corner. Our only hope for a brighter future are these kids getting a chance to get a college education. No, they're not perfect, some will waste the opportunity like I wasted my old Daddy's money back in the 70s. But our ticket to a better future lies on the other end of the lottery ticket I bought 30 minutes ago.

I don't really expect to win the lottery, but I have great faith that Arkansas will win someday when we have thousands more well educated citizens between our borders. The usual suspects are trying to kill this golden goose.....don't let them!
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:01:44 -0600 Arkansas Times
IMHO
Posted by SkyPilot]]> Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:32:21 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by mrprincipal07]]> Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:26:53 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by FullThrottle]]> Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:54:28 -0600 Arkansas Times
It needs to be need based or it will generally go to the more affluent that could have attended college without it.

The more Arkansans exposed to college and higher education the better Arkansas will be.
A higher perrcentage of beginners finnishing is important but more exposed will be a big benefit also.

I view the lottery scholarships as a vehicle to get more Arkansans IN college as opposed to handing cash to those already in.
Posted by Citizen1]]> Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:34:15 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by evil monkey sez]]> Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:33:20 -0600 Arkansas Times
He took you to the cleaners real gud.
Posted by 70%er]]> Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:29:47 -0600 Arkansas Times
You can fool some of the people, all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but their skepticism and participation is inversely proportional to their wealth and directly proportional to their winnings.

I note that Ernie "Pass-Me-the-Money" timed his exit just right to avoid explaining where the players and profits went! Once again a large number of Arkansans end up with "SUCKER!" emblazoned across their forehead by out-of-state carpetbagger(s).

Would anyone care to place a moderate wager on whether the lottery take reduces further next year?!
Posted by dottholliday]]> Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:20:03 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by couldn't be better]]> Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:18:35 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Sound Policy]]> Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:49:17 -0600 Arkansas Times