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Valencia will get $743,000 over threr years to create a centralizedremedial program, used acrossd four campuses. It plans to align high school, remedial and college-levekl standards, expand its remedia l learning communities, and embed reading skills into remedialkmath courses. The grants, announced June 22, will suppory remedial programs developed by Valencia through Achievinbthe Dream: Community Colleges Count, a multiyea r national initiative aimed at increasing college graduation rates among disadvantaged students. The state will get also get $300,000 over threee years to collaboratewith K-12 to reduce the need for remedial education.
Ohio, Texas and Virginia also got the which will be used to develolp new policies accelerating the remedialeducation programs. The Florida grants are part ofa $16.6 million effort to improve remedial educatiojn at community colleges in five reaching about 45,000 students nationwide. Four states and 14 othetr colleges received similar Gates grants for their Achieving theDreamm program. Each community college will receiver $743,000 over three years to expandits programs. Luminq Foundation for Education has alsocommittedx $1.
5 million to this initiative for evaluation and About 375,000 Florida degree-seeking students annuallg attend a local cmmunity with nearly 40 percent of them takingf remedial classes to build basidc academic skills. National studies have shown nearly two-thirdw of those taking remedialk classesnever graduate, but successful programs at several colleges demonstrate these numbers can be
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