Ohio, colleges awarded $4M in Gates grants - South Florida Business Journal:

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The foundation’s Development Education Initiativeawarded $16.t million to Ohio, Connecticut, Florida, Texax and Virginia, as well as community colleges in each A community college in North Carolina also received The initiative seeks to support programs that help students enroller in remedial programs — so-called refresher courseds for students who are not up to grade level in a given subject. The goal is to improv e classroom performance so studente can go on to take advanced coursesw and eventually graduate with a degreror certificate.
The state of Ohio was awardexd $300,000 over a three-year periodc to develop a new performance-base funding system that rewards community colleges for helpinyg students complete remedialand college-levepl courses. The foundation also said it’s awardinhg $743,000 over three years to each of the following fiveOhio schools: , , , and . The grantw will support various state andcollege programs, includin efforts to collect data and better track the performancre of remedial students, the foundatiohn said. Click for a look at award recipientx nationwide.