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That's because the state is facing a multimillion-dollar deficit in lottery money. a little background on the hope scholarship, the nation's largest merit-based scholarship program. it provides free tuition to georgia students with a b average who intend an in-state school. it also covers some fees and books. since it started in 1993, the program has awarded $5.7 billion to more than 1.3 million students. cnn talked to one mother about what possible changes could mean for her daughter's future. >> without the hope scholarship, she would be depending on student loans and starting life after col...

Entrepreneur for 29 years, and now that i'm into politics, i even believe in the municipal area, people have to bring value to the table. you cannot just create jobs and give people employment when they are not bringing value. >> absolutely. i just would like to add on to that, the whole objective for all of us is to have meaningful work. not just a job. >> the divide between the kid who comes out of high schools the kid with a b average or c average. real smart kids are going to find their way to michigan state and then get jobs. what do we do for the young man who is 18 coming out of school ...

>> the divide between the kid who comes out of high schools the kid with a b average or c average. what do we do for the young man who is 18 coming out of school with a b or c average, got through all right, not a troublemaker, was for him today. >> there's lots of things. one of the strategies and my daughter is pretty well -- pretty strong academically. she considered the community college road for her first two years as an easy way to kind of mainstream herself into the college environment and then to go university. it looks like it will be different for her but i think that's a pathway. th...

You? megyn: and she'll do hundreds of practice tests with the daughter. >> there's a lot of focus in our cub on, you know -- country, on, you know, bullying. but there's a lot of extracurricular, sports stuff that is very focused on at school. maybe a little bit more concern about academics and making it more of a priority in if life and having kids believe that they can succeed and that we have high expectation for them is not a terrible thing. megyn: i was not raised at all by parents who were, like, you must succeed. they were like, eh, you've got to maintain a b average. she would be horri...

That, the whole objective for all of us is to have meaningful work. not just a job. >> the divide between the kid who comes out of high schools the kid with a b average or c average. what do we do for the young man who is 18 coming out of school with a b or c average, got through all right, not a troublemaker, was for him today. >> there's lots of things. one of the strategies and my daughter is pretty well -- pretty strong academically. she considered the community college road for her first two years as an easy way to kind of mainstream herself into the college environment and then to go uni...