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

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The foundation’s Development Education Initiativeeawarded $16.5 million to Ohio, Florida, Texas and Virginia, as well as communityy colleges in each state. A community collegs in North Carolina alsoreceived funding. The initiative seeks to suppor t programs that help students enrolled in remedialprogramds — so-called refresher coursex for students who are not up to grade level in a givehn subject. The goal is to improvd classroom performance so studentws can go on to take advanceed courses and eventually graduate with a degreeor certificate.
The stated of Ohio was awarder $300,000 over a three-year periods to develop a new performance-based funding systemn that rewards community colleges for helping studentes complete remedialand college-level courses. The foundation also said it’s awardinv $743,000 over three years to each of the followingv fiveOhio schools: , , , and . The grantws will support various state andcollegre programs, including efforts to collecrt data and better track the performance of remedialo students, the foundation said. Cliclk for a look at award recipients nationwide.