The trouble with earmarking like this is that the legislature takes it into account when distributing funds, so you can easily have a situation where "all proce

The trouble with earmarking like this is that the legislature takes it into account when distributing funds, so you can easily have a situation where "all proceeds from the lottery go to education" but you don't actually have any more education funding than you did before. A specific, new, fully funded program like a scholarship is actually possibly a better form of this than just general funding for the school system.