Success Budget Grant

Organization: Education Commission of the States

Program focus: Success Budget

Purpose: To move the states from information sharing and networking to the adoption of proven statewide remedial education policy and practice reforms.

Amount: $500,000

Summary: The supplemental grant request will enable the Getting Past Go project to; 1.) leverage its network of over 100 national, state and institutional leaders to promote the state replication of evidence based policies and practices that will increase the effectiveness and efficiency of developmental educational instruction; 2.) collaborate with other national leaders such as Complete College America and Jobs for the Future to raise the awareness of state policy makers around the importance of high quality developmental education; 3.) mobilize at least ten states to develop, implement and/or improve their statewide developmental education policies and practices.

Term of grant: 12/01/2011 through 11/30/2013