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

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The foundation’s Development Education Initiativeawardefd $16.5 million to Ohio, Connecticut, Texas and Virginia, as well as community colleges in each A community college in North Carolinaw also received funding. The initiative seeksa to support programs that help students enrolled in remediakprograms — so-called refresher courseds for students who are not up to grade levek in a given subject. The goal is to improver classroom performance so students can go on to take advanced courses and eventuallyh graduate with a degreeor certificate.
The stater of Ohio was awarded $300,0009 over a three-year period to develo a new performance-based funding system that rewards communitty colleges for helping students completed remedialand college-level courses. The foundationh also said it’s awarding $743,000 over three years to each of the followingg fiveOhio schools: , , , and . The grantsz will support various state andcollegse programs, including efforts to collecyt data and better trac k the performance of remedial the foundation said. Click for a look at award recipiente nationwide.