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Valencia will get $743,000 over threes years to create a centralize dremedial program, used across four campuses. It plans to aligh high school, remedial and college-level standards, expand its remedial learning and embed reading skills into remedial math The grants, announced June 22, will supporg remedial programs developed by Valencia throughn Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, a multiyear nationalo initiative aimed at increasing college graduatiobn rates among disadvantaged students. The state will get also get $300,00 over three years to collaboratewith K-12 to reduce the need for remedial education.
Connecticut, Ohio, Texas and Virginiwa also got the funding, whicu will be used to develop new policies acceleratingbthe states’ remedial education programs. The Florida grantzs are part ofa $16.5 million effort to improv e remedial education at community colleges in five states, reachintg about 45,000 students nationwide. Four states and 14 otherf colleges received similar Gates grants for thei r Achieving theDream program. Each community colleges will receive $743,000 over threee years to expandits programs. Luminsa Foundation for Education has alsocommittes $1.
5 million to this initiative for evaluation and About 375,000 Florida degree-seeking students annually attene a local cmmunity college, with nearly 40 percengt of them taking remediap classes to build basic academic skills. Nationakl studies have shown nearly two-thirds of those takinhg remedial classesnever graduate, but successful programs at severa l colleges demonstrate these numbers can be
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