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The Missouri Department of Higher Education & Workforce Development (MDHEWD) was recently recognized at the ACT Workforce Summit in Atlanta, Georgia for having 13 counties maintaining or achieving their Certified Work Ready Community status in the past year.

Missouri currently leads the nation with a total of 99 Certified Work Ready Communities and 112 communities that are participating and working towards certification.

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With it being one of the fastest-growing counties in the state, its beautiful rivers and stellar school districts, Christian County has a lot going for it — and now it has one more tool in the tool box. On Nov. 2, the county, Ozark and Nixa school districts and the Missouri Job Center celebrated being named an ACT Certified Work Ready Community and received its ACT National Career Readiness Certificate.