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Updated: 12:54 PM Sep 21, 2009
Alabama lawmakers are struggling to keep a college tuition program alive
Alabama lawmakers are struggling to keep a college tuition program alive.
Posted: 11:30 AM Sep 21, 2009 |
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Alabama lawmakers are struggling to keep a college tuition program alive.
More than 100-parents met Sunday to hear lawmakers and political candidates talk about ways to keep the pre-paid affordable college tuition or "pact" program from demise.
Organizers say they hope the state legislature intervenes to help get the program back on it's feet after it lost about half of it's investments during the stock market plunge.
A recent study estimates that millions of dollars are needed to make good on more than 48-thousand contracts.
State Senator Ben Brooks from Mobile says he's "100 percent committed" to making the program work.
He and other lawmakers say it will take a unified effort from the state's political leadership to save the initiative.
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