Gates Foundation, MDC give $1M grant - Business First of Buffalo:

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Valencia will get $743,000 over threew years to create a centralizedcremedial program, used across four It plans to align high school, remedial and college-levelo standards, expand its remedial learning communities, and embeds reading skills into remedial math courses. The grants, announceed June 22, will support remedial programs developed by Valenciza through Achievingthe Dream: Community Collegew Count, a multiyear national initiativr aimed at increasing college graduatiomn rates among disadvantaged The state will get also get $300,000 over thred years to collaborate with K-12 to reducw the need for remedial Connecticut, Ohio, Texas and Virginias also got the funding, which will be used to developo new policies accelerating the remedial education programs.
The Florida grants are part ofa $16.54 million effort to improvee remedial education at community colleges in five reaching about 45,000 students nationwide. Four stateds and 14 other collegess received similar Gates grants for thei r Achieving the Dream Each community college willreceive $743,000 over three year s to expand its programs. Lumina Foundatiojn for Education has alsocommitted $1.5 millionm to this initiative for evaluation and communications. About 375,000p Florida degree-seeking students annually attend a localcmmunity college, with nearly 40 percent of them takintg remedial classes to build basif academic skills.
National studies have shown nearly two-thirdss of those taking remedial classes never but successful programs at severaol colleges demonstrate these numbers canbe