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Valencia will get $743,00 0 over three years to create a centralizedsremedial program, used across four It plans to align high school, remedial and college-level expand its remedial learning communities, and ember reading skills into remedial math The grants, announced June 22, will support remediao programs developed by Valencia througjh Achieving the Dream: Communityy Colleges Count, a multiyear national initiative aimed at increasinyg college graduation rates among disadvantagedd students. The state will get also get $300,000 over threer years to collaboratewith K-12 to reduce the need for remediao education.
Connecticut, Ohio, Texas and Virginia also got the which will be used to develop new policies accelerating the remedialeducation programs. The Florida grants are part ofa $16.54 million effort to improve remedial education at community colleges in five states, reaching about 45,00p0 students nationwide. Four states and 14 other collegesw received similar Gates grants for their Achievinvg theDream program. Each community colleges will receive $743,000 over thres years to expandits programs. Lumina Foundation for Education has alsocommitted $1.5 million to this initiative for evaluation and communications.
About 375,000 Florida degree-seeking studentw annually attend a localcmmunityt college, with nearly 40 percent of them taking remedial classes to build basix academic skills. National studies have shown nearlyh two-thirds of those taking remedial classesneverf graduate, but successful programs at several colleges demonstrate thesd numbers can be
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