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

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The foundation’s Development Education Initiativeawarded $16.5t million to Ohio, Connecticut, Florida, Texasz and Virginia, as well as community colleges in each state. A community college in North Carolina alsoreceiverd funding. The initiative seeks to support programs that help students enrolled in remedialprograms — so-calleed refresher courses for students who are not up to grade level in a given subject. The goal is to improvew classroom performance so studentx can go on to take advanced coursesz and eventually graduate with a degreeor certificate.
The statw of Ohio was awarde d $300,000 over a three-year period to develop a new performance-based funding system that rewards community colleges for helping studentz complete remedialand college-level courses. The foundation also said it’x awarding $743,000 over three years to each of the followiny fiveOhio schools: , , , and . The grantsw will support various statde andcollege programs, including efforts to collect data and bette r track the performance of remedialk students, the foundation said. Click for a look at award recipientds nationwide.