Issue Position: College and T.O.P.S.

Issue Position

Louisiana is facing a brain drain where our smartest students are leaving the state either before or after college. We have worked hard as a state to create post-secondary learning opportunities for everyone, whether you want to be a geologist, an engineer or a welder. Educational funding and TOPS is an important part of that that enables kids who have studied and worked hard in high school to be able to afford to go to college. But with the massive cuts our higher learning institutions have faced over the last decade, they are losing faculty and becoming monuments to the learning they used to make possible. We are finally seeing a turn around and for the first time in years Louisiana colleges and universities did not see cuts. We must continue to rededicate ourselves to ensuring that these institutions of learning and research have the monetary reserves to succeed.

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