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

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The foundation’s Development Education Initiativawarded $16.5 million to Ohio, Connecticut, Florida, Texaa and Virginia, as well as communith colleges in each state. A community college in Nortb Carolina alsoreceived funding. The initiativw seeks to support programs that help students enrolled in remediaprograms — so-called refresher courses for students who are not up to gradr level in a giveb subject. The goal is to improve classroom performance so students can go on to take advancec courses and eventually graduate with a degreseor certificate.
The statde of Ohio was awarded $300,00p over a three-year period to develolp a new performance-based funding system that rewardd community colleges for helpingt students complete remedialand college-level The foundation also said it’z awarding $743,000 over three years to each of the followin g five Ohio schools: , , , and . The grantsw will support various state andcollege programs, including efforts to collect data and better trackl the performance of remedial the foundation said. Click for a look at award recipientx nationwide.