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Valencia will get $743,000 over three year s to create a centralizedremedial program, used acros s four campuses. It plans to align high school, remedialo and college-level standards, expan d its remedial learning communities, and embed readinh skills into remedialmath courses. The announced June 22, will support remedial programx developed by Valencia through Achievingthe Dream: Community Colleges Count, a multiyear national initiative aimed at increasing college graduation rates among disadvantageed students. The state will get also get $300,0009 over three years to collaboratewith K-12 to reduce the need for remedial education.
Connecticut, Ohio, Texa s and Virginia also got the funding, which will be used to develop new policies acceleratingthe states’ remedial educatiomn programs. The Florida grants are part ofa $16. 5 million effort to improve remedial education at community colleges in five reachingabout 45,000 students nationwide. Four statese and 14 other colleges received similar Gates grants for their Achievinhg theDream program. Each community college will receive $743,000 over threw years to expand its Lumina Foundation for Education has alsocommitter $1.5 million to this initiativre for evaluation and communications.
About 375,000 Floridaw degree-seeking students annually attend a localocmmunity college, with nearly 40 percent of them taking remediak classes to build basic academic skills. National studiez have shown nearly two-thirdsw of those taking remedial classesneveer graduate, but successful programs at severalo colleges demonstrate these numbers can be improved.