TOPS

How a cut in TOPS payments will affect LSUE is unknown. TOPS currently pays 93 percent of tuition. For the spring semester, TOPS will pay about 42 percent. The scene is from the LSUE campus. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

TOPS cut impact on LSUE enrollment unknown

LSUE, which experienced nearly a 16 percent increase in enrollment this fall, now faces the question about how enrollment will be affected by a cut in TOPS payments.
In the spring semester, TOPS will pay for 41.8 percent of the tuition.

Justin DiCharia

Opinion: How covering the Legislature was transforming

A year ago, I would have told you higher education and TOPS scholarships should be fully funded at all costs — raise taxes, cut other programs, sweep other state agency monies, rob banks, launder money. Just do it.

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