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• January 13, 2020

  Press Release

  Florida Prepaid College Board Lowers Prepaid Plan Prices by $1.3 Billion for Current Customers and Reduces 2020 Plan Prices

  224,000 customers will have Prepaid Plan prices lowered by $1.3 billion. Lower Plan prices for the 2020 Open Enrollment period, which begins February 1 and ends April 30, 2020, will start at $44 / month for a newborn. Price reductions are due to successive years of lower than anticipated tuition…

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• January 7, 2020

  Saving for College

  You can save for college and retirement. Here’s how.

  You’re probably familiar with the financial advice that it’s more important to save for retirement than for your children’s college. And you know what? We agree that retirement savings are high priority. However, we also believe that saving for college sets expectations for your children that they can and will…

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• January 7, 2020

  Saving for College

  The 5 Things You Don’t Need to Know Before Starting a College Savings Plan

  We’ve made saving for college so easy; we can explain how in under a minute. Forget everything you need to know about saving for college. If you had a dollar for all of the future’s uncertainties, you could probably pay for college with cash. And with so many options and…

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• January 6, 2020

  Saving for College

  Five tips to keep your savings resolution

  We’re a few days into the New Year, which means it’s time for a check in on your goal to save more for your children’s college. Perhaps you’re already realizing that it’s not enough just to make a resolution. To be successful, you also need to make a plan. Psychologists…

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• December 9, 2019

  Financial Literacy

  What does it mean to “lock in” the cost of college?

  You’ve probably heard that when you purchase a Florida Prepaid plan, you “lock in” the cost of college and your Plan price. That is true, but what does it really mean? Like with many questions, there’s a simple answer and a more detailed answer. The simple answer is our favorite,…

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• November 8, 2019

  Saving for College

  Introducing the new Florida Prepaid Schoolhouse at LEGOLAND® Florida Resort!

  Why do Florida Prepaid and LEGOLAND® Florida Resort make great partners? Because we both want to help you build something special for your children! You don’t have to be a financial planner to save for college, and you don’t have to be an engineer to create a LEGO  masterpiece. Just…

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• October 4, 2019

  Path to College

  Teacher of the Year offers advice to parents

  Becoming Florida’s Teacher of the Year was never on his radar. In fact, Dr. Dakeyan Chá Dré Graham had big plans to become an anesthesiologist and was concluding his major in microbiology at the University of Florida when he had a change of heart. “My high school band director had…

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• September 10, 2019

  Saving for College

  Lower fees, more options = Big changes for our Florida 529 Savings Plan!

  We’ve made some big improvements to our Florida 529 Savings Plan, a savings and investment plan which allows you to save at your own pace for college and K-12 education expenses. (Hint: If you like lower fees and more flexibility, keep reading!) “Floridians now have access to a well-designed, low-cost…

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• August 20, 2019

  Lifelong Learning

  Celebrating the best teachers in Florida

  If you’re among the many parents who recently saw their children off for the first day of the new school year, you totally get how important teachers are. After all, for the next nine months, they’re with our children for eight hours a day – charged with growing their minds…

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• August 13, 2019

  Financial Literacy

  Get your kids excited to save with these printables

  We want our children to be advanced readers, so we start early and small, teaching them their ABCs. We want them to be good at math, so we start early and small, sneaking in simple lessons involving addition and subtraction into conversations about how many cookies they can have. So…

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