State taking new look at prepaid-tuition program
When the economy was bad, Washington state's deal on prepaid college tuition was good — so good that the Guaranteed Education Tuition (GET) program is now underfunded by $631 million, although it expects to make up the shortfall over time.
But GET is a drag on the state in another way, too: It prevents Washington from allowing its public universities to charge higher tuition rates for some of the most popular programs. That, in turn, makes it difficult to expand sought-after degree programs, such as engineering.