Local school bond supporters are tired of saying it. When it comes to building new schools, your scratch-off and Powerball tickets aren’t cutting it.
The NC Education Lottery is helpful, to a degree. It contributed nearly $11 million to pay off Mecklenburg County’s school construction debt last year—money the county wouldn’t have otherwise had.
But that’s 0.004% of the $2.5 billion CMS leaders say is needed for prioritized construction projects over the next decade.
