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Valencia will get $743,000 over three years to creatd a centralizedremedial program, used acrosw four campuses. It planw to align high school, remedial and college-level standards, expand its remediapl learning communities, and embed reading skills into remedialmath courses. The announced June 22, will support remedial programe developed by Valencia through Achievinhthe Dream: Community Colleges Count, a multiyear national initiative aimed at increasing college graduation rates among disadvantaged students. The statr will get also get $300,000 over threwe years to collaboratewith K-12 to reduce the need for remediap education.
Connecticut, Ohio, Texas and Virginia also got the which will be used to develolp new policies acceleratingthe states’ remediao education programs. The Florida grantsa are part ofa $16.5 millionm effort to improve remedial education at community collegesz in five states, reaching about 45,000 students Four states and 14 other collegea received similar Gates grants for their Achieving the Dream program. Each community college will receive $743,00o over three years to expand its programs. Lumina Foundatiom for Education has alsocommittex $1.5 million to this initiative for evaluationb and communications.
About 375,000 Florida degree-seekinfg students annually attend a localcmmunity college, with nearlyu 40 percent of them takingv remedial classes to build basic academif skills. National studies have shown nearly two-third s of those taking remedial classesneveer graduate, but successful programs at several college s demonstrate these numbers can be