Higher Education

• Raise admission standards to promote improved graduation rates
  
• Implement a performance-based funding formula at the campus level
  
• Give our higher education systems greater responsibility to set student fees and tuition; get away from legislative control of fees and tuition
  
• Provide start-up funding for a Louisiana Research Alliance

PreK – 12 Education

• Expand access to Louisiana’s highly successful PreK program (LA 4)
• Implement high school redesign innovations

Workforce Development

• Create Centers of Excellence for the Louisiana Community and Technical College System (LCTCS)
• Transfer adult education program from Department of Education to LCTCS

Health Care

• Support the LSU – Our Lady of the Lake agreement for medical education and uninsured/indigent care in the greater Baton Rouge region
• Develop State-owned (charity) hospital reforms in other regions
• Establish “dollars follow the patient” reimbursement of providers for indigent/uninsured care
• Implement existing law requiring the Department of Health and Hospitals to provide transparency of services delivered by providers receiving state money to care for the indigent/uninsured
• Support reform of Louisiana’s Medicaid program to achieve greater coordination of care

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Blueprint Louisiana’s second Accountability Report recaps our involvement in the 2009 legislative cycle. In a legislative session dominated by lack of money, Blueprint was still able to accomplish both of its “New Economy” agenda items — the pursuit of a strategic research alliance model for Louisiana and the initial implementation of a performance-based formula to fund higher education in the state.