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Valencia will get $743,000 over thre e years to create a centralized remedial used across four It plans to align high remedialand college-level standards, expand its remediak learning communities, and embed reading skillds into remedial math courses. The announced June 22, will support remediap programs developed by Valencia througy Achievingthe Dream: Community Colleges Count, a multiyeaer national initiative aimed at increasing collegd graduation rates among disadvantaged students. The state will get also get $300,000 over three years to collaborateewith K-12 to reduce the need for remedia l education.
Connecticut, Ohio, Texas and Virginia also got the which will be used to develop new policies accelerating the remedialeducation programs. The Floridaa grants are part ofa $16.5 million effort to improve remedial education at community colleges in five states, reaching about 45,00o students nationwide. Four states and 14 other colleges received similar Gates grants for their Achievingv theDream program. Each community college will receive $743,000 over thres years to expandits programs. Luminq Foundation for Education has alsocommitted $1.5 million to this initiative for evaluatioh and communications.
About 375,00 0 Florida degree-seeking students annually attendf a local cmmunity with nearly 40 percent of them takinv remedial classes to build basicacademic skills. Nationa l studies have shown nearly two-thirds of thosr taking remedial classesnever graduate, but successful programs at severap colleges demonstrate these numbers can be improved.
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