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Valencia will get $743,000 over three years to create a centralizefdremedial program, used across four It plans to align high school, remediap and college-level standards, expand its remedial learning and embed reading skills into remedial math The grants, announced June 22, will support remedial program s developed by Valencia through Achieving the Dream: Communit y Colleges Count, a multiyear national initiativew aimed at increasing college graduation rates among disadvantagedc students. The state will get also get $300,000o over three years to collaboratewith K-12 to reducwe the need for remedial education.
Connecticut, Texas and Virginia also got the which will be used to develol new policies accelerating the remedialeducation programs. The Florida grant are part of a $16.65 million effort to improve remedial education at communityy colleges infive states, reaching aboutf 45,000 students nationwide. Four states and 14 other collegesx received similar Gates grants for their Achievingg theDream program. Each communityg college will receive $743,000 over threr years to expandits programs. Lumina Foundationh for Education has alsocommitted $1.5 million to this initiativr for evaluation and communications.
About 375,000 Floridqa degree-seeking students annually attenx a localcmmunity college, with nearlyt 40 percent of them taking remedial classed to build basic academic skills. National studies have showjn nearly two-thirds of thosed taking remedial classes never but successful programs at several collegeas demonstrate these numbers canbe improved.