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Analysis: Louisiana lawmakers renew talk of TOPS disparities Debates about Louisiana’s free college tuition program known as TOPS are cyclical in the Legislature, cropping up every few years as lawmakers raise concerns about the program’s ballooning price tag or notice the disparities in who receives the aid. The latest questioning came Wednesday in the House Appropriations Committee, prompted by charts showing much of the tuition aid goes to wealthier families and comparing TOPS spending to the significantly lower financing earmarked for need-based aid programs for college students. It’s part of a perennial discussion at the Louisiana Legislature about who TOPS should help. Those discussions, however, have never generated significant change to one of Louisiana’s most popular entitlement programs. ....
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Analysis: Louisiana lawmakers renew talk of TOPS disparities MELINDA DESLATTE, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) Debates about Louisiana s free college tuition program known as TOPS are cyclical in the Legislature, cropping up every few years as lawmakers raise concerns about the program s ballooning price tag or notice the disparities in who receives the aid. The latest questioning came Wednesday in the House Appropriations Committee, prompted by charts showing much of the tuition aid goes to wealthier families and comparing TOPS spending to the significantly lower financing earmarked for need-based aid programs for college students. It s part of a perennial discussion at the Louisiana Legislature about who TOPS should help. Those discussions, however, have never generated significant change to one of Louisiana s most popular entitlement programs. ....
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Louisiana s publicly funded colleges and universities are no longer as affordable as they once were after years of diminishing state funding and skyrocketing tuition and fees, an audit from the Louisiana Legislative Auditor s office shows. As the state government has lowered its level of monetary support for higher education institutions, the financial burden has fallen on the shoulders of the state s in-state students and parents, the audit found. The audit, released March 29, was sent to legislative leaders and the leadership from the state s college and university systems. Overall, we found that decreased direct state support per student which includes state general fund money, statutory dedications, and interagency transfers and subsequent fee increases over the past 10 years have made it more costly to earn a public higher education degree or other credential in Louisiana. ....