Our Views: College cuts on pause - New Orleans Advocate

This is apparently Gov. Bobby Jindal’s idea of largesse to Louisiana’s colleges: You guys get to keep what you earn. The colleges have one more year of increases available to them under what is known as the GRAD Act, allowing the raising of tuition in exchange for meeting some performance benchmarks. Previously, the big tuition increases were used to offset deep cuts by Jindal in the money granted to the colleges from the general fund. The money “saved” from the general fund was spent on other priorities. Balancing the budget on the backs of students was not popular with the colleges, but they had little choice. http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/opinion/9432969-171/our-views-college-cuts-on