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As one of three Ventura College District colleges, VC serves 10,764 students (Fall 2022) .1 The college is a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), with more than half (64 percent, Fall 2022) of the student population identifying as Latinx.1 Notably, 91 percent of its students benefit from the California College Promise Grant (tuition waiver), which means that over 9 in every 10 students at VC come from low-income backgrounds.1  \nTo support community colleges in implementing Assembly Bill 705 (see sidebar), The Education Trust–West (Ed Trust–West) created a framework to identify community colleges that are bright spots for AB 705 implementation for students of color.  \nThe framework defines a set of criteria for identifying exemplary colleges. Tobe considered exemplary, an institution must serve a high proportion of students of color and eliminate remedial courses to offer 100% transferlevel math courses by 2022, among other criteria.  \nFrom August 2022 to February 2023, Ed Trust—West collected and analyzed VC’s data and reviewed its promising practices by conducting interviews, primarily with Professor Michelle Beard, Professor Jack Bennett, and VC students. Professor Beard, who has worked at VC for the past eighteen years, began her career as an adjunct math professor and has served as Math Department Chair for the past six years. Professor Bennett has been a math faculty member and leader at VC for ten years. Both are pivotal leaders in adopting equitable placement and course completion reforms at VC. With faculty support, The Education Trust—West team conducted outreach to identify and interview VC students that had recently completed or were currently taking a transfer-level math course with corequisite support.  \nAB 705 was enacted in 2017 to address the negative impact of remedial education on students in California’s community colleges. The law requires colleges to discontinue placement testing, to use high school grades for course placement, and to place students into coursework that gives them the best chance of completing transferable, collegelevel math and English courses within a year of their first attempt. After AB 705’s enactment, the rate of one-year completion of transferlevel math almost doubled (going from 27% to 50% from 2016-17 to 2019-20), with significant completion gains for every demographic student group for which data was collected.  \nThe Education Trust–West 1  \n[AB 705 is] huge in promoting equity and transformation, corequisite support has helped Latinx students in particular […], and it’s helped remove equity gaps.  \nProfessor Jack Bennett, Professor of Mathematics  \nVentura College  \nWe realize that the world of education is not equal. It has biases and systemic racism built into it. So as faculty, we seek to address those inequities.  \nMichelle Beard,  \nMath Department Chair  \nVentura College  \nProfessional Development and Communities of Practice For Faculty  \nProfessional development has played a vital role in strengthening VC’s equity and remedial education reform efforts. VC’s math faculty, English faculty, administrators, and counselors attended California Acceleration Project (CAP) conferences. They then applied CAP’s principles around changing remedial course offerings and expanding transfer-level and support courses on their campus. Professor Bennett shared that at CAP conferences, staff learned: “If you offer remedial courses, they’ll fill […], and so, we decided not to offer theremedial courses because they would fill, and they don’t have the best outcomes.”  \nProfessor Beard, Professor Bennett, and other faculty also participated in Project PROMESAS, a professional development program.2 Designed as a two-year program composed of institutes and wo","cbCaid9H4lkdHgUm","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaid9H4lkdHgUm","pdf",5047301,"English","# Bright Spot: Ventura College Eliminates Remedial Math and Improves Student Success\n## Context and AB 705 framework\n## Data collection and faculty leadership\n## AB 705 impact on completion rates\n## Professional development and communities of practice\n## Results: elimination of remedial math and improved outcomes","[{\"question\":\"What is the role of AB 705 in Ventura College’s reform?\",\"answer\":\"AB 705 requires colleges to discontinue placement testing, use high school grades for placement, and enroll students in courses that maximize their chance to complete transferable college-level math and English within a year.\"},{\"question\":\"How did Ventura College improve math access and outcomes after implementing reforms?\",\"answer\":\"It eliminated below transfer-level (remedial) math courses and moved introductory math to transfer level by Fall 2022, supported by corequisite support and faculty curriculum and instruction improvements.\"},{\"question\":\"How did professional development support faculty and implementation?\",\"answer\":\"Faculty attended CAP conferences and participated in Project PROMESAS, learning research-backed, equity-driven classroom practices. 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