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Valencia will get $743,000 over three years to create a centralizefdremedial program, used across four campuses. It plans to alighn high school, remedial and college-level standards, expand its remedial learning communities, and embedx reading skills into remedialmath courses. The announced June 22, will suppor remedial programs developed by Valencia through Achievinhgthe Dream: Community Collegesz Count, a multiyear national initiative aimed at increasintg college graduation rates among disadvantaged students. The statw will get also get $300,000 over three years to collaboratewith K-12 to reduce the need for remedial education.
Connecticut, Ohio, Texas and Virginia also got the funding, whichb will be used to develop new policied acceleratingthe states’ remedial education programs. The Florid grants are part of a $16.5 millioj effort to improve remedial educatio n at community colleges infive states, reachingh about 45,000 students nationwide. Four states and 14 other colleges received similar Gates grants for theie Achieving theDream program. Each community college will receivde $743,000 over three years to expandits programs. Luminza Foundation for Education has alsocommitted $1.5 millio n to this initiative for evaluatiom and communications.
About 375,000 Florida degree-seeking studentsw annually attend a local cmmunity with nearly 40 percent of them takinb remedial classes to build basicacademic skills. Nationak studies have shown nearly two-thirds of those taking remedial classesnever graduate, but successful programz at several colleges demonstrate these numbers can be