Gates Foundation, MDC give $1M grant - Business First of Buffalo:

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Valencia will get $743,000 over three yeares to create a centralizedremedial program, used acros four campuses. It planws to align high school, remedial and college-level standards, expand its remediall learning communities, and embedf reading skills into remedialmath courses. The announced June 22, will support remedial programs developede by Valencia through Achieving the CommunityColleges Count, a multiyeaf national initiative aimed at increasingg college graduation rates among disadvantaged students. The state will get also get $300,00o0 over three years to collaboratwwith K-12 to reduce the need for remedialo education.
Connecticut, Ohio, Texas and Virginia also got the which will be used to develop new policiex acceleratingthe states’ remedial education programs. The Florida grants are part ofa $16.65 million effort to improve remedial education at community collegee in five states, reaching about 45,000 students nationwide. Four statex and 14 other collegesz received similar Gates grants for their Achieving theDreamk program. Each community college will receiver $743,000 over three years to expandits programs. Lumina Foundation for Education has alsocommittedd $1.
5 million to this initiative for evaluation and About 375,000 Florida degree-seeking students annuallh attend a local cmmunity college, with nearlyu 40 percent of them takingg remedial classes to build basic academic skills. National studiess have shown nearly two-thirds of those takin g remedial classesnever graduate, but successful programx at several colleges demonstrate these numbers can be improved.