Another student organization designed to advocate against the cut in funding to higher education has emerged, according to a Thursday news release.
 
EducateLA, the new non-profit organization, consists of students attending two- and four-year public universities and colleges across Louisiana. The release states the group’s mission is to gain alliances within the Legislature by asking individual representatives to pledge to protect and improve higher education.
 
EducateLA is centered on four main goals:
1. To limit the state appropriation cuts for education to less than 10 percent
2. To prioritize higher education within the state
3. To require a clear, consistent funding formula from the Board of Regents
4. To reduce “bureaucracy costs” in higher education
 
And though the organization’s objectives appear to be similar to other advocate groups, EducateLA President J Hudson assured it will be “something that has never been done before.”
 
 ”We have to remind our legislators that students have the most at stake when it comes to the higher education budget,” Hudson said in the release. “It is the determination of whether our education, and ultimately our degree, means something significant in the future.”
 
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