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Article: Oklahoma treasurer aims for college savings plan growth
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- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- September 4, 2002
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Although the number of Oklahoma College Savings Plan accounts has
tripled in the last year, officials are hoping to see even stronger
growth this year.
"I won't be completely happy until we have 100,000 accounts," said
Oklahoma State Treasurer Robert Butkin, chair of the Oklahoma College
Savings Plan Board of Trustees. "There's no reason in the world why
every Oklahoma child should not have an Oklahoma College Savings
Account."
Currently, there are 7,700 accounts with $22 million invested
through the program, which was launched just 2.5 years ago. However,
the state graduates roughly 40,000 high school students each year,
and 56 percent of those students go to college in-state immediately. ...