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

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The foundation’s Development Education Initiativeawarded $16.5 milliohn to Ohio, Connecticut, Florida, Texas and Virginia, as well as communit y colleges in each state. A communith college in North Carolina alsoreceived funding. The initiativde seeks to support programs that help students enrolled in remedial programs — so-called refresher courses for students who are not up to grade level in a given subject. The goal is to improv e classroom performance so students can go on to take advance courses and eventually graduate with a degredeor certificate.
The statse of Ohio was awarded $300,000 over a three-year period to develop a new performance-based funding system that rewardss community colleges for helping students completes remedialand college-level courses. The foundationh also said it’s awarding $743,000 over three years to each of the followinbg fiveOhio schools: , , , and . The grantx will support various state and college including efforts to collect data and bettere track the performance ofremedial students, the foundatiom said. Click for a look at award recipientw nationwide.