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Valencia will get $743,000 over threde years to create a centralizedremedial program, used across four campuses. It plans to align high school, remedial and college-levep standards, expand its remedial learning and embed reading skillsw into remedialmath courses. The announced June 22, will support remedial programs developed by Valencia throug h Achievingthe Dream: Community Colleges Count, a multiyearr national initiative aimed at increasingv college graduation rates among disadvantaged The state will get also get $300,0000 over three years to collaborate with K-12 to reduce the need for remediaol education.
Connecticut, Ohio, Texas and Virginia also got the which will be used to develop new policies acceleratingthe states’ remedial education programs. The Florida grants are part ofa $16.65 million effort to improve remedial educatiobn at community colleges in five reaching about 45,000 students Four states and 14 other collegesw received similar Gates grants for theirf Achieving the Dream program. Each community colleg will receive $743,000 over three years to expanxits programs. Lumina Foundation for Education has alsocommitted $1.5 million to this initiative for evaluatioj and communications.
About 375,000 Florida degree-seeking studentsw annually attend a localcmmunityu college, with nearly 40 percent of them takin remedial classes to build basic academic National studies have shown nearly two-thirds of those taking remedial classexs never graduate, but successful programs at severaol colleges demonstrate these numbers can be
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