March 23, 2010 in City

Enrollment period ends soon for WA prepaid tuition

Associated Press
 
Tags:higher educationprepaid tuition program

OLYMPIA — The enrollment period for Washington’s prepaid tuition program closes next week. And when enrollment reopens again in the fall, fees are expected to be about 14 percent higher. That’s how the Guaranteed Education Tuition or GET program keeps in step with rising tuition at Washington’s four-year colleges.

Washington families have opened more than 113,000 GET accounts worth over $1.2 billion to send their children to college.

Parents buying GET units until March 31, will pay $101 a unit or about $10,000 for a year for tuition at the state’s most expensive public colleges.

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  • PhiltheBibliophil on March 23 at 6:33 p.m.

    Why would we actually want to educate our Children? Soon public institutions will be be taxed and tuition raised until they are no longer in existance! Then you will only have the Corporatocracy Elite’s spawn achieving “Higher Learning” at “preferred” institutions. And that learning will be like Texas’s Revisionist History! Nikita Kruschev said at his famous UN Rants in the 60’s “I will destroy you from within!”. The “Commies” arn’t the ones who did it, we did it to ourselves!

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