At the Save Alabama PACT meeting last Wednesday (11/4) after the PACT board meeting, Treasurer Kay Ivey faced tough questioning from parents about why the PACT board sat for 7 months in 2008 and watched the fund ride the stock market all the way to the bottom.
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After the PACT board's March 24 board meeting, Congressman Artur Davis rebuked the board for its poor performance and called for a special program audit:
I would also renew my call for a special audit that answers the hard questions of how Alabama families were left in this predicament.
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Alabama's troubled Prepaid Affordable College Tuition board met yesterday to discuss the health of the program, review investments, and discuss working with the Alabama Legislature to fix the program.
Immediately following the meeting, members of Save Alabama PACT met to plot strategy [...]
If your family has a PACT contract, don't miss the PACT Board's meeting tomorrow in Montgomery at 1:30 pm in the State Capitol Auditorium.
“Our main concern is tuition is being paid for the spring of 2010 even though it has the money to pay through 2014,” Rebecca Thrasher of [...]
I think you would be hard pressed to find anyone in the Birmingham area just totally shocked by Larry Langford’s conviction. This case has been grinding its way to a finale for quite some time and the testimony for the prosecution was the nail in the coffin. Now that it [...]
Alabama's troubled Prepaid Affordable College Tuition (PACT) program was in the news yesterday as some legislators search for ways to fix the program.
Representative Greg Wren (R-Montgomery) held a press conference yesterday to announce a package of PACT-related bills:
State Rep. Greg Wren plans to introduce a [...]
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