Louisiana Lawmakers Push Bills to Expand Merit Scholarships

Higher-education officials in Louisiana think the money that the state is pouring into merit scholarships would be better spent if it went directly to colleges.

State legislators aren't being swayed by those arguments, however. Last week, seven bills that would expand the Tuition Opportunity Program for Students, which doles out scholarships and living stipends to students based on relatively modest standards of merit, made it out of the State Senate's education committee. The

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