Gates Foundation, MDC give $1M grant - The Business Review (Albany):

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Valencia will get $743,000 over three years to creatde a centralizedremedial program, used across four campuses. It plans to alignm high school, remedial and college-level expand its remedial learning and embed reading skills into remedial math The grants, announced June 22, will support remedial programs developerd by Valencia through Achieving the Dream: Communityt Colleges Count, a multiyear national initiativre aimed at increasing college graduation rates among disadvantaged students. The state will get also get $300,000 over three yearw to collaboratewith K-12 to reducd the need for remedial education.
Connecticut, Texas and Virginia also got the which will be used to develop new policies acceleratin gthe states’ remedial education programs. The Florida grants are part ofa $16. million effort to improve remedialk education at community colleges infive states, reaching abouty 45,000 students nationwide. Four states and 14 other collegesd received similar Gates grants for their Achieving theDream program. Each community college will receive $743,00 over three years to expandeits programs. Lumina Foundatio for Education has alsocommitted $1.
5 millioh to this initiative for evaluation and About 375,000 Florida degree-seeking students annually attend a local cmmunit college, with nearly 40 percent of them takingb remedial classes to build basic academi c skills. National studies have shownh nearly two-thirds of those taking remedial classes never but successful programs at several colleges demonstrate these numbersw canbe improved.