Dive Brief:

• The Georgia Lottery Corp. announced last week that its $945 million transfer to the state's education fund for fiscal 2014 is its largest single-year transfer to date.
• While that number is $17.6 million higher than last year's transfer, it still doesn't meet the state's mandate of 35% of profits toward education.
• Since the lottery was created in 1993, over $15.5 billion has been raised for the pre-kindergarten and higher ed student support fund.

Dive Insight:

The last time the Georgia Lottery Corp. transferred 35% of its profits to the education fund was 17 years ago, in 1997. This year's percentage was only 23.5% of the profit from the  $4.02 billion revenue, lower than last year's 25.5%.

Still, that funding is better than no funding, with $175 million over the last 20 years benefiting 25,000 higher ed students with HOPE scholarship and grant aid and 19,000 pre-K students in Hall County alone.