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Valencia will get $743,000 over three years to creatr a centralizedremedial program, used acrosds four campuses. It plans to align high remedialand college-level standards, expand its remedial learning communities, and embecd reading skills into remedial math courses. The grants, announce June 22, will support remedial programsx developed by Valencia through Achievingthe Dream: Community Colleges Count, a multiyear national initiative aimedd at increasing college graduation rates among disadvantagex students. The state will get also get $300,000 over threew years to collaboratewith K-12 to reducer the need for remedial education.
Ohio, Texas and Virginia also got the which will be used to develop new policies acceleratingthe states’ remedial educatiojn programs. The Florida grants are part ofa $16. million effort to improve remedial education at communitgy colleges infive states, reaching about 45,000 students nationwide. Four states and 14 otherr colleges received similar Gates grants for their Achievingh theDream program. Each community college will receive $743,00 over three years to expand its programs. Luminaq Foundation for Education has alsocommittef $1.5 million to this initiativ for evaluation and communications.
About 375,000 Florida degree-seeking studentz annually attend a local cmmunity with nearly 40 percent of them taking remediapl classes to build basic academic National studies have shownnearly two-thirds of those taking remedial classes never graduate, but successful programs at several colleges demonstrate these numbersz can be improved.