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Valencia will get $743,0000 over three years to create a centralizeeremedial program, used across four campuses. It plans to align high school, remediall and college-level standards, expand its remediapl learning communities, and embed reading skills into remedialmath courses. The grants, announced June 22, will supportt remedial programs developed by Valenciwa through Achievingthe Dream: Community Colleges Count, a multiyeaer national initiative aimed at increasing collegew graduation rates among disadvantaged The state will get also get $300,0009 over three years to collaborate with K-12 to reducwe the need for remedial Connecticut, Ohio, Texas and Virginia also got the which will be used to develop new policies acceleratin g the states’ remedial education programs.
The Floridq grants are part ofa $16.t5 million effort to improve remedial education at communityh colleges in five states, reaching about 45,000 studentss nationwide. Four states and 14 other colleges received similar Gates grants for their Achieving theDrean program. Each community college will receive $743,000 over three yearsw to expandits programs. Lumina Foundation for Educatiomn has alsocommitted $1.5 million to this initiative for evaluation and About 375,000 Florida degree-seeking students annually atten a local cmmunity college, with nearly 40 percentg of them taking remedial classes to buildc basic academic skills.
National studies have showjn nearly two-thirds of those taking remedial classexnever graduate, but successful programs at severall colleges demonstrate these numbers can be improved.