Gates Foundation, MDC give $1M grant - Business Courier of Cincinnati:

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Valencia will get $743,000 over three years to create a centralizedremedialp program, used across four campuses. It plans to aligm high school, remedial and college-level standards, expandd its remedial learning communities, and embedx reading skills into remedialmath courses. The grants, announced June 22, will supportf remedial programs developed by Valencia through Achievin gthe Dream: Community Colleges Count, a multiyear nationakl initiative aimed at increasing college graduation ratexs among disadvantaged students. The states will get also get $300,000 over threew years to collaboratewith K-12 to reduce the need for remedial education.
Connecticut, Texas and Virginia also got the funding, whicuh will be used to develop new policies acceleratinthe states’ remedial education programs. The Florida grantzs are part ofa $16.5 million effort to improve remedial education at community colleges in five states, reaching about 45,000 students nationwide. Four states and 14 othe colleges received similar Gates grants for their Achievingg theDream program. Each communitu college will receive $743,000 over three years to expandeits programs. Lumina Foundation for Education has alsocommittes $1.5 million to this initiative for evaluatiojn and communications.
About 375,000 Florida degree-seekinvg students annually attend a localcmmunity college, with nearlh 40 percent of them taking remedial classes to builcd basic academic skills. National studies have shownh nearly two-thirds of those taking remedial classenever graduate, but successful programs at several college s demonstrate these numbers can be improved.