re: Louisiana special session: Failure.

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The TOPS requirements, low as they are, are HIGHER than every college entrance requirement other than LSU. So I know that my tax dollars that fund TOPS, as opposed to direct state aid to colleges, are going to qualified students.

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Well... that's because in order to have enough students for all our public universities, we have to have embarrassingly low entrance requirements.

But this makes me think of a solution.

Keep TOPS where it is... but require every 4 year school in LA to have minimum entrance requirements to be at the TOPS level. A school (like LSU) can go higher, but no lower.

That might cause 4-5 colleges to shut down. Then you save money on the back end.

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Rather than cut TOPS, I think direct state aid should be cut first. Now ideally you fund both. But if it is a choice between them, keep TOPS and fund the better students.

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Isn't TOPS now frozen? If that's the case, then cutting state aid = higher tuition, which means the TOPS people (with everyone else) woudl pay more.

Before the freeze, state aid cuts just meant TOPS cost the state more. It was beyond stupid.