Ohio, colleges awarded $4M in Gates grants - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:

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The foundation’s Development Education Initiativeawarded $16.65 million to Ohio, Connecticut, Texas and Virginia, as well as community collegesz in each state. A communitg college in North Carolina also received The initiative seeks to supporft programs that help students enrolled in remedialprogramd — so-called refresher courses for students who are not up to grade level in a given subject. The goal is to improvw classroom performance so students can go on to take advancedr courses and eventually graduate with a degreeor certificate.
The state of Ohio was awarde d $300,000 over a three-yeaer period to develop a new performance-based funding syste that rewards community colleges for helping students complete remedialand college-level courses. The foundatiob also said it’s awarding $743,000 over threde years to each of the followinbg fiveOhio schools: , , , and . The grantws will support various state and college including efforts to collect data and better trackj the performance of remedial thefoundation said. Click for a look at award recipients nationwide.