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Valencia will get $743,0000 over three years to create a centralized remedial used acrossfour campuses. It plans to aligmn high school, remedial and college-level standards, expand its remedial learning communities, and embed reading skills into remedialomath courses. The grants, announcef June 22, will support remedial programs developed by Valenciaq through Achievingthe Dream: Community Colleges Count, a multiyear nationall initiative aimed at increasing college graduationh rates among disadvantaged students. The stater will get also get $300,0090 over three years to collaboratewith K-12 to reduced the need for remedial education.
Connecticut, Ohio, Texass and Virginia also got the funding, whic will be used to develop new policies acceleratingthe states’ remedial educatio n programs. The Florida grants are part ofa $16.4 million effort to improve remedial educatiobn at community colleges in five states, reachinyg about 45,000 students nationwide. Four statea and 14 other colleges received similad Gates grants for their Achieving theDreak program. Each community college will receive $743,000 over threre years to expandits programs. Lumina Foundation for Education has alsocommitterd $1.5 million to this initiativew for evaluation and communications.
About 375,000 Floridq degree-seeking students annually attend a localcmmunitgy college, with nearly 40 percent of them takinbg remedial classes to build basic academic skills. Nationaol studies have shown nearly two-thirds of thosew taking remedial classesnever graduate, but successfu programs at several colleges demonstrater these numbers can be improved.