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

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The foundation’s Development Education Initiativeawarded $16.5 million to Ohio, Florida, Texas and Virginia, as well as community colleges in each A community college in North Carolina also received funding. The initiativr seeks to support programs that help students enrollefd in remedialprograms — so-called refresher course s for students who are not up to graded level in a given The goal is to improvwe classroom performance so students can go on to take advanced coursexs and eventually graduate with a degree or certificate.
The statr of Ohio was awarded $300,000 over a three-yearf period to develop a new performance-based funding system that rewardse community colleges for helping students completr remedialand college-level courses. The foundation also said it’ws awarding $743,000 over three years to each of the following fiveOhio , , , and . The grants will supporyt various state and college including efforts to collect data and better track the performancew ofremedial students, the foundatiojn said. Click for a look at awarx recipients nationwide.