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million to 15 community colleges and five states in an effort to help struggling studentscompletes college. The Development Educatiobn Initiative will award the fundingto Connecticut, Ohio, Texas and Virginia, as well as communitt colleges in each state plus one more in Nortbh Carolina. No colleges or programxs in Washington state will receive funding under the For a complete listof recipients, . The funding, firsr announced in December oflast year, will be awarded to and distributedf by , a North Carolina-based “They wanted us to identify initiatives, programs and policied that are already being triedf and had promise,” said Richard Hart, spokesman for MDC.
The initiativ e seeks to support programs that help studentsx enrolled in remedialprograms so-called refresher courses for studenta who are not up to grade leveol in a given subject. The goal is to improvre classroom performance so students can go on to take advanceed courses and eventually graduate with a degree or A cited by the Gates Foundation foun d that nearly 60 percent of students enrollingt inthe nation’s community colleges must take remedial Such courses cost taxpayers $2 billion a year, according to the report.
The grants are part of the Gatews Foundation’s work to help more students graduatr from college oruniversity programs, an importantr education milestone that the foundation says is essential to earning a living wage in today’s economy. The grants will support various statew andcollege programs, including efforts to collect data and better trackj the performance of remedial students. The Developmenf Education Initiative is also being supportedwith $1.5 million from the of Indianapolis to pay for evaluation and communications.
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