The HOPE Scholarship and Governor Sonny Perdue

Sonny Perdue has come up with a plan to tie students’ SAT scores with the HOPE Scholarship. Reason being from him, and as quoted from WSBTV in Atlanta, “It would keep good students who perform badly on standardized tests -- including many blacks -- from getting state financial support.”

Now referring back to him “ensuring that the voice of the people is heard in the walls of power,” I am brought to question why he is changing the rules. Is it because the statistics show that test scores of African American students ha

U.S. Senator Zell Miller, the former governor who saw the lottery as an opportunity to fund Georgia’s educational future, bought the first lottery ticket in 1993. He attributes much of Georgia’s recent lottery sales success to out-of-state players, who make up 16 percent of its sales, worth millions a year. The value of the HOPE scholarship program given to Georgia students through lottery-funded scholarships and grants cannot be measured or weighed.

HOPE – which stands for Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally – rewards students with financial assistance at public and private colleges and universities, and public technical colleges. The lottery money is helping fund education, but that funding is largely coming straight out of the empty pockets of those who are considerably uneducated, experts say. Democratic leade

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