COBB COUNTY, Ga. — Georgians are remembering former Gov. Zell Miller who died with his family by his side Friday morning at the age of 86.
His legacy lives on today helping students across the state get an education with the state’s Pre-K program and the HOPE Scholarship.
At Kennesaw State University there are 14,000 students getting scholarships funded by the lottery that Miller pushed so hard for.
Channel 2's Jim Strickland spoke with a student Friday who's been accepted to six Ph.D. programs and wonders whether she'd even be in school without the scholarship.
The cream of the crop receives full tuition through the Zell Miller scholarship.
“I'm a first-generation college student, and without the Zell Miller (scholarship), I don't think I would have considered going to a university as an option for me,” student Lee Spence told Strickland.
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