Prepaid tuition plan to reopen with higher prices

Published August 6, 2014 10:58pm ET



JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi board that oversees the plan that allows people to lock in pricing for future college tuition voted Wednesday to reopen the program, but charge sharply higher prices.

State Treasurer Lynn Fitch closed Mississippi Prepaid Affordable College Tuition program in fall 2012, saying she was worried about a funding shortfall.

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