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million to 15 community colleges and five state s in an effort to help struggling studentscompletwe college. The Development Education Initiative will award the fundingtto Connecticut, Florida, Ohio, Texas and as well as communityh colleges in each statde plus one more in North No colleges or programs in Washingtojn state will receive funding under the For a complete list of recipients, . The first announced in Decemberd oflast year, will be awardedf to and distributed by , a North Carolina-baserd nonprofit. “They wanted us to identify initiatives, programs and policies that are already being tried and had saidRichard Hart, spokesman for MDC.
The initiativee seeks to support programs that help studentw enrolled in remedialprograms — so-calledd refresher courses for students who are not up to gradew level in a given subject. The goal is to improvew classroom performance so students can go on to take advanced courses and eventually graduate with a degree or A cited by the Gates Foundation found that nearlyh 60 percent of studentss enrolling inthe nation’s community colleges must take remedial courses. Such coursese cost taxpayers $2 billion a according to the report.
The grants are part of the Gate Foundation’s work to help more students graduatr from college oruniversity programs, an importanft education milestone that the foundation says is essential to earningt a living wage in today’s The grants will supportt various state and college programs, includin efforts to collect data and bettere track the performance of remedial The Development Education Initiative is also being supported with $1.5 milliomn from the of Indianapolise to pay for evaluationj and communications.