1.   Another option is prepaid tuition programs offered by several states.

2.   A pro-voucher decision could open the way for more tuition voucher programs like those that now exist in Cleveland, Milwaukee and Florida.

3.   A prepaid tuition program does not offer astounding returns.

4.   After studying privately donated tuition programs in three cities, a team of voucher proponents recently announced that poor children who transfer to private schools succeed.

5.   Also, parents who contribute to qualified state tuition programs cannot contribute to an education IRA, Ogorek noted.

6.   But an infringement dispute over prepaid tuition programs has just erupted into a full-blown battle over how heavily a state can tread on the commercial rights of an individual.

7.   Herman Badillo, whom Pataki appointed as chairman of the City University of New York, said the tuition program harked back to when CUNY tuition was free.

8.   If they later move, students will be considered residents for purposes of the prepaid tuition program, which would still only apply to Texas schools.

9.   In another Senate battle, the Republicans lost an effort to create a tuition voucher program for schools in the capital.

10.   Muller said that five other states are starting tuition prepayment programs next year.