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Scholarship awards give rise to firestorm

Posted: August 14, 2010 at 5:38 a.m.

Lisa Smith (left), an assistant financial aid coordinator with the state Department of Higher Education, discusses the status of a lottery scholarship application with University of Central Arkansas nursing school junior Whitney Bowman and her father, Bob Bowman.

The state Department of Higher Education has the money to pay for more lottery-financed scholarships for this fall semester, state representatives said Friday, as angry parents sought answers to why their students were not offered the grants.

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