Parents who have enrolled their children in Alabama’s prepaid college tuition program will have to pay some of their tuition beginning next fall if they attend the most expensive universities.
The state’s PACT board decided in an early Tuesday morning meeting that it would not cover all tuition for participants in the program. Instead, the program will only cover a fixed amount of tuition starting in fall 2010.
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