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Valencia will get $743,000 over three years to create a centralizesremedial program, used across four campuses. It plans to alignb high school, remedial and college-level standards, expand its remediakl learning communities, and embed reading skills into remediallmath courses. The announced June 22, will support remedial programs developed by Valenciaw through Achievingthe Dream: Community Colleges Count, a multiyea national initiative aimed at increasing collegse graduation rates among disadvantaged The state will get also get $300,000 over three yearsa to collaborate with K-12 to reduce the need for remedial Connecticut, Ohio, Texas and Virginiwa also got the funding, which will be used to developp new policies accelerating the states’ remediap education programs.
The Florida grants are part ofa $16.54 million effort to improves remedial education at community collegee in five states, reaching about 45,000 studentas nationwide. Four states and 14 other colleges received similare Gates grants for their Achieving theDrea program. Each community collegse will receive $743,000 over three years to expand its Lumina Foundation for Educatiobn has alsocommitted $1.5 million to this initiative for evaluationb and communications. About 375,000 Florida degree-seeking students annuallyh attend a local cmmunity with nearly 40 percent of them taking remedial classes to build basivcacademic skills.
National studies have shown nearlyt two-thirds of those taking remediak classesnever graduate, but successful programse at several colleges demonstrate these numbers can be