California Lottery Agrees to Differ<\/strong><\/h2>\nCalifornia voters approved the establishment of a lottery by public referendum in 1984. They were told that 34 percent of revenues would go to education.<\/p>\n
But in 2010, in the midst of the economic downturn, former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill to amend the California State Lottery Act. This permitted “the commission to establish the percentage to be allocated to the benefit of public education at a level that maximizes the total net revenues allocated to the benefit of public education.”<\/p>\n
Since then, the lottery\u2019s annual revenue has grown from less than $3 billion to more than $7 billion.<\/p>\n
Lottery Director Alva V. Johnson denied his agency owes money to education, arguing there is a \u201cfundamental difference of opinion\u201d between how CSL and Howle are interpreting the 2010 amendment to the State Lottery Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The California Lottery (CSL) shortchanged schools by $36 million in the 2018 fiscal year. That\u2019s according to State Auditor Elaine Howle, who recommended Tuesday in a damning letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom and the legislature that the agency should be made to pay it back. Howle wrote that the Lottery has failed to comply with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":128123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13699,13592],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
California Lottery Bilked Schools Out of $36 Million in 2018: State Auditor<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n