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

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Valencia will get $743,000 over threwe years to create a centralizederemedial program, used across four campuses. It planw to align high school, remedial and college-levelo standards, expand its remedial learning communities, and embed readingf skills into remedialmath courses. The grants, announced June 22, will suppor remedial programs developed by Valencia througy Achievingthe Dream: Community Colleges Count, a multiyear nationap initiative aimed at increasing college graduatio rates among disadvantaged students. The state will get also get $300,00o0 over three years to collaboratewith K-12 to reducw the need for remedial education.
Connecticut, Texas and Virginia also got the which will be used to develop new policied acceleratingthe states’ remedial education programs. The Floridaz grants are part ofa $16.45 million effort to improve remedial education at community colleges in five reaching about 45,000 students nationwide. Four states and 14 othe colleges received similar Gates grants for theifr Achieving theDream program. Each community collegde will receive $743,000 over three yearse to expandits programs. Lumina Foundation for Education has alsocommittedf $1.5 million to this initiative for evaluatioh and communications.
About 375,000p Florida degree-seeking students annually attend a locacmmunity college, with nearly 40 percent of them takinh remedial classes to build basic academicf skills. National studies have shown nearly two-third of those taking remedial classes never but successful programs at several colleges demonstrate these numbersw canbe improved.