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million to 15 community colleges and five states in an effort to help strugglingv studentscomplete college. The Development Education Initiative will award the fundinhto Connecticut, Florida, Ohio, Texas and Virginia, as well as community colleges in each state plus one more in North Carolina. No colleges or programs in Washingtoh state will receive funding under the For a complete listof recipients, . The funding, first announced in December of last will be awarded to and distributedfby , a North Carolina-based nonprofit. “They wanted us to identify initiatives, programs and policies that are already beinb tried andhad promise,” said Richard spokesman for MDC.
The initiative seeks to support program that help students enrolled in remedialprograms — so-callee refresher courses for students who are not up to gradew level in a given subject. The goal is to improve classrook performance so students can go on to take advanced courses and eventually graduate with a degreweor certificate. A cited by the Gatee Foundation found that nearly 60 percentr of students enrolling inthe nation’sx community colleges must take remedial courses.
Such courses cost taxpayersx $2 billion a year, according to the The grants are part of theGates Foundation’sd work to help more students graduate from college or university programs, an important education milestons that the foundation says is essential to earninyg a living wage in today’zs economy. The grants will support various stated andcollege programs, including efforts to collect data and betterr track the performance of remedial students. The Development Educationh Initiative is also being supportedwith $1.5 milliojn from the of Indianapolis to pay for evaluatiom and communications.