Have you noticed how tuition has skyrocketed since the lottery scholarships? It’s my belief that the State colleges and universities are simply pricing college at what the market will bear. If most students are subsidized $1500 per semester, tuition pretty much has gone up by that amount. Instead of the lottery/Hope scholarships being a service to students to defray the cost of college, they are simply a means of funnelling more money into the universities (and to a lesser extent, community colleges) while the cost to the student remains unchanged.
That was EXACTLY what happened. As soon as the $1000 “Hope” scholarship started, the tuition went UP $1000. What have state colleges DONE in the past 20 years that they need 5 times as much money today? (I mean EXCEPT load the faculty with liberal tenured professors who teach one class a week.)