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ACT empowers learners by removing barriers and creating pathways to success through programs like fee waivers, scholarships, and grants. In FY2025, we supported 477K students, 210K fee waivers, 27 scholarships, and 54 grants nationwide. Learn more in the 2025 Impact Report.

ACT's Leadership Blog featured skills-driven innovations for WRCs in New York, Arkansas, and Louisiana to strengthen workforce assets. WRC helps align education, industry, and policy around the single goal to develop a skilled, job-ready talent pipeline.

Site Selection Magazine's November edition includes a dozen location spotlights that include WorkKeys NCRC growth trends to demonstrate workforce quality. Features include Kansas, the Dakotas, Virginia, Nebraska, New York, Mississippi, Washington, and Wyoming.

Valuable career-readiness assessment tools for Genesee County high school students, incumbent workers, and workers entering or transitioning careers are now available. Genesee Valley BOCES launched a testing center to support school districts and workforce development partners access ACT WorkKeys NCRC assessments.

Greater Rochester Chamber of Western, NY published an employer guide simplifying the wide menu of options open for employers. The playbook suggests flexible methods to connect and go deeper in a user-friendly style that doesn't overwhelm. Page 3 sorts employer opportunities by level and WRC is among the Start Small call to action steps.