By Samuel Carter Karlin
The House Education Committee is scheduled to hear 10 TOPS-related bills Wednesday as legislators begin looking for more than $200 million to fully fund the popular scholarship program for the fall and spring semesters of the 2016-17 academic year.
Gov. John Bel Edwards has thrown his support to a measure that would decouple TOPS award amounts from tuition costs so students would have to pay the difference between their TOPS money and the actual tuition figure if tuition is increased further.
LSU Manship School Statehouse Bureau 