A college scholarship meant to help low-income, black students now serves mostly white, middle-class kids - CASEY PARKS, Hechinger Report

Landan Moore decided in middle school that he wanted to attend the best college possible. Attaining the goal would be a stretch, the New Orleans teen knew. Some of his 10 siblings had started college, but none had finished. His dad, a single parent, wouldn’t be able to afford tuition — especially not to Xavier, Moore’s dream school, a private historically black university that costs about $37,000 a year to attend. Still, Moore considered himself lucky. He lives in Louisiana, a state that, for the past three decades, has offered to pay in-state tuition for any student who earns a 2.5 GPA and an ACT score of 20.* http://hechingerreport.org/a-college-scholarship-meant-to-help-low-income-black-students-now-serves-mostly-white-middle-class-kids/