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Valencia will get $743,000 over threse years to create a centralizedremediaol program, used across four campuses. It pland to align high school, remedial and college-level standards, expanr its remedial learning communities, and embed readinhg skills into remedialmath courses. The grants, announcedc June 22, will support remedial programs developed by Valenciza through Achievingthe Dream: Community Colleges Count, a multiyear nationalp initiative aimed at increasing college graduation ratez among disadvantaged students. The state will get also get $300,00o0 over three years to collaboratewith K-12 to reducer the need for remedial education.
Connecticut, Ohio, Texas and Virginia also got the which will be used to develop new policies acceleratingythe states’ remedial education programs. The Florida grants are part ofa $16.5 million effort to improve remedial education at community colleges in five reaching about 45,000 students nationwide. Four states and 14 other colleges received similar Gates grants for their Achieving theDreamj program. Each community college will receive $743,000o over three years to expand its Lumina Foundation for Education has alsocommitteed $1.5 million to this initiative for evaluationm and communications.
About 375,000 Florida degree-seeking studentxs annually attend a locakcmmunity college, with nearly 40 percent of them taking remedial classes to build basic academicd skills. National studies have shown nearly two-thirds of those taking remedial classesnever graduate, but successfull programs at several colleges demonstrate these numbers can be