Q&A: How much of the lottery money goes to public schools?

Question by shanq: How much of the lottery money goes to public schools?
How do the public schools get the lottery money.
What do the schools spend with the money.

Best answer:

Answer by beca390
Usually around 34% of the lottery ticket cost goes to public education. About 54% goes toward prize money. The rest goes toward misc. expenses (check out my source for more info).

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