Ohio, colleges awarded $4M in Gates grants - Business First of Columbus:

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The foundation’s Development Education Initiativreawarded $16.5 million to Connecticut, Florida, Texas and Virginia, as well as community colleges in each state. A community collegd in North Carolina alsoreceived funding. The initiative seeks to supportr programs that help students enrolled in remedialprogramd — so-called refresher courses for students who are not up to grads level in a given The goal is to improver classroom performance so students can go on to take advance d courses and eventually graduate with a degree or certificate.
The statew of Ohio was awarded $300,000 over a three-yeard period to develop a new performance-based funding system that rewarda community colleges for helping students complete remedialand college-levelo courses. The foundation also said it’s awardinhg $743,000 over three years to each of the followinh fiveOhio schools: , , , and . The grantws will support various state andcollegse programs, including efforts to collect data and better trac k the performance of remedial the foundation said. Click for a look at award recipientsa nationwide.