With the 2012 Alabama legislative session underway, Rep. Craig Ford, D-Gadsden, the Minority Leader in the Alabama House of Representatives, and Sen. Roger Bedford, D-Russellville, the Minority Leader...

A judge's ruling in a lawsuit pertaining to the Prepaid Affordable College Tuition plan means that all 42,000 participants of the PACT program will be impacted by the outcome of the litigation. Circuit...

Thursday marks the end of this year’s regular session for the Alabama Legislature. With both the general fund and education budgets already passed, state legislators have three key issues remaining to...

When I received UA President Robert Witt’s campus-wide e-mail urging me to call my representatives and tell them to support the bill that would not place a tuition cap on PACT students, I almost lost...

In short: The state should fully fund PACT, or it is robbing parents of their investments and students of their opportunities. As it stands right now, many Alabama parents will have to pay out of pocket...

Officials working with Alabama’s Prepaid Affordable College Tuition plan said the program, based on calculations, will likely be unable to pay for tuition past the fall 2011 semester and still provide...

In short: State officials should prevent the possible failure of PACT, not UA. Many students and parents are concerned that their contracts with the state through the Prepaid Affordable College Tuition...

A House committee voted unanimously Wednesday in favor of three bills designed to help Alabama’s struggling Prepaid Affordable College Tuition program. The bills each ensure that the PACT program will...