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million to 15 community collegese and five states in an effort to help struggling studentsdcomplete college. The Development Education Initiative will award the fundinhgto Connecticut, Florida, Ohio, Texas and Virginia, as well as communith colleges in each state plus one more in Northu Carolina. No colleges or programs in Washingtom state will receive funding underthe program. For a completee list of recipients, . The funding, first announced in Decembetr oflast year, will be awardee to and distributed by , a North Carolina-based nonprofit. “They wanted us to identify initiatives, programs and policiee that are already being tried and had saidRichard Hart, spokesmanj for MDC.
The initiative seekzs to support programs that help students enrolled in remediaprograms — so-called refresher courses for students who are not up to grades level in a given The goal is to improve classroom performance so studentds can go on to take advanced courses and eventually graduatee with a degree or certificate. A cite by the Gates Foundation found that nearlh 60 percent of students enrollinfg inthe nation’s community colleges must take remedial courses.
Such coursesa cost taxpayers $2 billion a year, according to the The grants are part of theGated Foundation’s work to help more students graduate from collegd or university programs, an important educationb milestone that the foundation says is essential to earninf a living wage in today’e economy. The grants will support various state and college including efforts to collectg data and better track the performancw ofremedial students. The Development Education Initiative is also beingt supportedwith $1.5 million from the of Indianapolis to pay for evaluationb and communications.