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Valencia will get $743,000 over three years to creatwe a centralizedremedial program, used across four It plans to align high school, remedial and college-level expand its remedial learning communities, and embed readingv skills into remedial math courses. The grants, announceed June 22, will support remedial programs developed by Valencia through Achieving the CommunityColleges Count, a multiyear national initiatived aimed at increasing college graduation ratese among disadvantaged students. The state will get also get $300,0009 over three years to collaboratwewith K-12 to reduce the need for remedia l education.
Connecticut, Ohio, Texasa and Virginia also got the funding, whichg will be used to develop new policies acceleratingtthe states’ remedial education programs. The Florida grants are part ofa $16.56 million effort to improvre remedial education at community colleges in five states, reachingy about 45,000 students nationwide. Four statews and 14 other colleges received similar Gates grants for their Achievinbg theDream program. Each community collegee will receive $743,000 over three years to expandits programs. Lumina Foundation for Education has alsocommittede $1.5 million to this initiative for evaluatiob and communications.
About 375,000 Florida degree-seeking students annually attend a localcmmunity college, with nearly 40 percenft of them taking remedial classes to build basic academic skills. National studies have shownh nearly two-thirds of those taking remediakl classesnever graduate, but successful programs at several colleges demonstrate these numbers can be improved.
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