RALEIGH — North Carolina’s Education Lottery isn’t turning out to be as good for education as legislators predicted.

The lottery’s executive director says the lottery will generate at least $75 million less for education than projected in the current state budget because sales of scratch-and-win tickets have fallen since July.

Legislators had forecast about $1.2 billion in sales during the first full year, which would bring $425 million to education coffers. Now Tom Shaheen, the N.C. Education Lottery’s executive director, says the lottery could do $1 billion in business by the end of the fiscal year, June 30.