Changes In Store For TOPS Scholarship Program

WWNO - New Orleans Public Radio | By Mallory Falk

Published July 6, 2016 at 1:06 PM EDT

The special legislative session is over. A budget deal has been reached. And changes are in store for TOPS, the state's college scholarship program.

VincentRossmeier is Policy Director of theCowenInstitute, which recently released a report on the future of TOPS. He spoke withWWNO'sMallory Falk about two big changes to the program.

Support for WWNO's Education Desk comes from Entergy Corporation.

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Mallory Falk

Mallory Falk was WWNO's first Education Reporter. Her four-part series on school closures received an Edward R. Murrow award. Prior to joining WWNO, Mallory worked as Communications Director for the youth leadership non-profit Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools. She fell in love with audio storytelling as a Middlebury College Narrative Journalism Fellow and studied radio production at the Transom Story Workshop.

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