Seven counties — Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Gordon, Murray, Walker and Whitfield — had $152 million in total ticket sales in fiscal 2010, according to numbers from the Georgia Lottery Corp. Those counties received $32 million in education funds from lottery proceeds, or about 21 percent of sales. About 13 percent went to HOPE scholarships and 8 percent to prekindergarten.
Overall in Georgia, about 26 percent of total ticket sales went to education funds.
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