Stevescookin to Bobby Jindal......How about shutting up and funding education ????

Or closing several other colleges to bring us more in line with other southern states. We simply have too many universities.

How much is the state spending on education?

TOPS: Should Louisiana spend so much money on the college scholarship program?

Julia O'Donoghue, NOLA.com/Times-Picayune
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By Julia O'Donoghue, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
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on March 27, 2014 at 2:49 PM, updated March 28, 2014 at 3:23 AM




The Louisiana Legislature is considering measures to restrict Louisiana's popular college scholarship award, known as TOPS.

The subject matter is touchy, since so many people in Louisiana take advantage of the Taylor Opportunity Program for Students. Last year, over 47,000 students used TOPS to attend undergraduate programs in the state.

TOPS is expensive for Louisiana though. It is expected to cost the state government around $220 million in the next fiscal cycle and some estimates have that figure growing to an unsustainable sum of over $300 million annually in the next five years. Louisiana could not afford to run the program if it grew that expensive, according to some legislators.

A few lawmakers introduced measures to bring the cost of the TOPS program down, though the proposals would often reduce the number of people who qualify for the scholarship.

We are helping people get an education, the jobs part is falling.......

In 2010, only 62 percent of U.S. college graduates had a job that required a college degree. Second, the authors estimated that just 27 percent of college grads had a job that was closely related to their major.

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Recent U.S. college graduates disillusioned, more than 40% unemployed: poll
Today's students graduate from college with heavy debts, and many aren't reaping the benefits of that education — a poll shows recent grads often find jobs that don't require a college degree. More than 40% are unemployed, and 16% are in part-time positions.
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More than 40 percent of recent U.S. college graduates are underemployed or need more training to get on a career track, a poll released on Tuesday showed.

The online survey of 1,050 workers who finished school in the past two years and 1,010 who will receive their degree in 2013 also found that many graduates, some heavily in debt because of the cost of their education, say they are in jobs that do not require a college degree.

Thirty-four percent said they had student loans of $30,000 or less, while 17 percent owed between $30,000 to $50,000.

"For our nation's youngest workers, as well as for the workforce at large, there is a real need for employers to reexamine how they hire, train and develop their employees," said Katherine Lavelle, of the global management consulting firm Accenture, which conducted the survey.

Nearly half, 42 percent, of recent graduates expect they will need an advanced degree to further their career and almost a quarter are already planning to take graduate courses.

More than half of graduates said it was difficult finding a job, but 39 percent were employed by the time they left college. Sixty eight percent said they are working full time, while 16 percent are in part-time positions.

The top industries that graduates wanted to work in were education, media and entertainment and healthcare.

Just over half, 53 percent, of graduates found full-time jobs in their field of study.

In addition to being underemployed many graduates thought they would have done better in the job market if they had studied a different major, and more than half also intended to go back to school within the next five years.

The survey uncovered a gap between what students expect to earn in their first job and their actual salary. Only 15 percent of this year's graduates think they will earn less than $25,000 but a third of recent graduates said they make that amount or less.


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...employed-poll-article-1.1331346#ixzz377GvDAgy


I know, kind of mixed here.

I would be curious to see the breakdown of the percentage of grads hired fields like engineering, accounting, education, computer science and other practical fields vs that of grads in social sciences or other touchy feely soft courses. The pursuit of knowledge is a good thing but unless you are wealthy college education needs some practicality.

Jindal has been a supreme disappointment. Like W he spouts a supposedly conservative line but his actions are just the opposite. As Red says he has a nanny state approach to government.
FWIW that is my problem with many of the so called tea party Rs. They say keep the government out of private lives but they do the same as liberals. The only difference is whose ox is gored.