The Oklahoma Lottery contributes 45 percent of funds raised to higher education.  Higher education funding is used for such things as tuition grants, loans and scholarships for Oklahomans, renovations and expansions of universities and colleges through out the state and endowed chairs for professors at higher education institutions.  Funds allocated to higher education can also be used for construction of educational facilities, capital outlay projects and technological upgrades for educational institutions.

Below are some of the many ways the Oklahoma Lottery supports higher education.

Northern Oklahoma College helping build, expand and renovate campus buildings for academic and administrative purposes. Oklahoma Panhandle State University helped fund the new science and agriculture building to continue the university's ongoing contribution to agricultural education. Oklahoma State University assisting in building a new interdisciplinary research building and the restoration and renovation of South Murray Hall.

Northeastern State University assisted in renovating its science building, developing its Enrollment Management Center and renovating areas of its Broken Arrow campus.		University of Central Oklahoma helping fund the construction of its forensic science building to be completed in Fall 2009.
Oklahoma City Community College helped with the expansion of the Health Professions Education Center.		Carl Albert State College, Sallisaw helped fund the Delores O'Guin Mitchell Library, a state-of-the-art electronic library.
Southeastern Oklahoma State University assisted in renovating its occupational safety and health, and theatre buildings and helped build a new general classroom building.		University of Oklahoma assisted in financing the National Weather Center, the largest research center of its kind in the nation.
Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma City used funds to build its Agriculture Resource Center's conservatory, a living laboratory of plant varieties. Helped finance its Public Safety Training Center, a 22,000 square foot building housing classes for students in police, fire and emergency medical technology, early care education, crime victim/survivor, and chemical abuse studies.

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Forty-five percent of funds the Oklahoma Lottery contributes to education are allocated to elementary and secondary education.  This education funding is used for such things as compensation for public school teachers, support employees and early childhood development programs.  Funds allocated to elementary and secondary education can also be used for construction of educational facilities, capital outlay projects and technological upgrades for school systems.

Consider what $110 Million could buy...

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The Oklahoma Lottery has also contributed over $30 Million to the Teacher's Retirement System Dedicated Revenue Revolving Fund and the School Consolidation and Assistance Fund.

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	A - Kindergarten through 12th grade public education, including but not limited to compensation and benefits for public school teachers and support employees, and early childhood development programs.
	B - Tuition grants, loans and scholarships to citizens of Oklahoma; construction of educational facilities; capital outlay programs and technology for all levels of education, endowed chairs for professors; programs and personnel of the Oklahoma School for the Deaf and the Oklahoma School for the Blind.
	C - Teachers' Retirement System Dedicated Revenue Revolving Fund
	D - School Consolidation and Assistance Fund

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Oklahoma Education Act

On November 2, 2004, Oklahomans overwhelmingly voted to pass the "Oklahoma Education Lottery Act". Net proceeds of all lottery games are to be used to support improvements and enhancements for education purposes and programs; furthermore, net proceeds will be used to SUPPLEMENT rather than replace existing funds for education. Proceeds will benefit all levels of education from Pre-K to higher education.

Lottery Legislation 

For additional lottery information, see the Oklahoma Lottery's 3 Year Report Card.