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Article in Sacramento Bee. Budget cuts to California community colleges are, in some cases, resulting in cuts to developmental education.

Georgia Budget Task Force makes recommendations to include moving developmental education exclusively to two-year institutions

Georgia State Budget Task Force report recommends moving remedial education exclusively to two-year institutions.

Budget cuts to community colleges highlights the fact that as a society we were never fully committed to remedial students in the first place. Young people and adults who have been criminalized and imprisoned are ineligible for loans, and cannot afford college to turn their life around. These cuts target the working poor, undereducated, and disadvantaged and are a threat to our democracy.

Story on Wyoming legislative session. Quotes Speaker Buchanan on the need to reduce high school dropout and reduce remediation rates.

Examines the effects of CSU-Bakersfield's move to online developmental education math courses in response to budget cuts. Student pass rates plunged, but rebounded when the college revised the courses to include both online lab work with teaching assistants and weekly lectures. (Inside Higher Ed, 06/09/11

This report done by Alliance for Excellent Education documents the costs to postsecondary institutions and the economy as a whole because of the high percent of students who require developmental education. This report is cited by the U.S. Department of Education and President Obama as part of the justification for tying Title 1 funding from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to state adopting college and career ready standards

With support from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) has established a new system-wide initiative to redesign its developmental math and English curriculum using technology- supported, active-learning strategies.

The first in a series, this paper provides an overview of basic skills education in California, including descriptions, need for service, financing, populations served and results. (California Budget Project, October 2009)

The Lumina Foundation for Education's Initiative to increase the productivity of postsecondary education by developing policies and strategies that result in higher college completion rates at lower costs to taxpayers, students and institutions.

A breakdown of allocations to California community colleges for basic skills instruction

Instructions for developing Basic Skills Action and Expenditure Plan at California Community Colleges

Story on opposition to Governor's proposal to cut funding for developmental education.

Here is another link to a similar article. http://www.abqjournal.com/news/state/132336380588newsstate01-13-11.htm

Commentary from Joe Nathan making the case that reductions in remedial rates for recent high school grads will save Minnesota money

Brief by the Alliance for Excellent Education that improved high school readiness will reduce remediation rates and save states money.