Four Texas community colleges were recently selected by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and MDC, Inc. to receive $743,000 each to support efforts to increase the effectiveness of remedial education. The colleges (Coastal Bend College, El Paso Community College, Houston Community College, and South Texas College) are all part of the national Achieving the Dream Initiative, which was originally funded in Texas by The Lumina Foundation for Education and the Houston Endowment. The Gates Foundation is in a new partnership with MDC, Inc. and the Texas grants are part of a larger commitment of $16.5 million in grants to 15 community colleges and 5 states “to expand groundbreaking remedial education programs that experts say are key to dramatically boosting the college completion rates of low-income students and students of color” (Gates).
Greater Texas Foundation recently made more than $1 million in grants to support expansion of Achieving the Dream in Texas. The expansion added five new schools (Temple College, Odessa College, Austin Community College, Blinn College, and Richland College) for the state, which means that now more than 60% of the state’s community college students are enrolled in an Achieving the Dream Institution.
For the official press release, see here
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