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The House narrowly passed a budget that would fund TOPS at 80% and maintain higher ed funding, but would implement deep cuts in healthcare funding,…
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The House Appropriations Committee is expected to approve a budget today for next fiscal year that will contain 648-million dollars in cuts from the…
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The revenue shortfall the state is facing has declined from 994-million-dollars to 648-million-dollars, as a result of the state collecting more income…
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The number of eligible graduates in Louisiana achieving TOPS reaches an all time high. More than 19,200 senior high school students qualified for at least…
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A bill seeking to make major changes to TOPS faced opposition from LSU students. The Senate Education Committee defeated the measure to make TOPS a flat…
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Now that the special session concluded without a solution to fill a one-billion-dollar budget shortfall in July, TOPS funding could be cut by 80-percent.…
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Springtime is acceptance letter season for most college bound high school students, and the state’s budget uncertainty is causing many to rethink whether…
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Governor Edwards and state lawmakers are in Baton Rouge for the special session to find a solution to the looming fiscal cliff that threatens to gut…
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House Republicans are looking at renewing at least some or all of the temporary one cent sales tax as a way to address a looming one billion dollar…
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A TOPS task force will vote on a series of recommendations today they hope will bring long-term sustainability to the popular scholarship program.…