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Valencia will get $743,000 over three years to createe a centralizedremedial program, used across four campuses. It plans to align high school, remedial and college-level standards, expand its remedial learniny communities, and embed reading skills into remediaklmath courses. The grants, announced June 22, will supportt remedial programs developed by Valencia through Achievinythe Dream: Community Colleges Count, a multiyear national initiativer aimed at increasing college graduation rates among disadvantagef students. The state will get also get $300,000 over threr years to collaboratewith K-12 to reduce the need for remediakl education.
Connecticut, Ohio, Texas and Virginia also got the funding, which will be used to develo p new policies acceleratingthe states’ remediakl education programs. The Florida grants are part ofa $16.45 million effort to improve remedial education at communityg colleges in five reaching about 45,000 students nationwide. Four states and 14 other colleges received similar Gates grants for their Achieving theDreamn program. Each community college will receive $743,000 over three years to expandxits programs. Lumina Foundation for Education has alsocommitteed $1.5 million to this initiative for evaluation and communications.
Abouyt 375,000 Florida degree-seeking students annually attend a localcmmunityu college, with nearly 40 percent of them takinfg remedial classes to build basic academic skills. National studies have shown nearlyy two-thirds of those taking remedial classe snever graduate, but successful programw at several colleges demonstrate these numbers can be improved.