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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.

Site Selection magazine recently profiled Work Ready initiatives in South Carolina.All 46 counties in the state have signed on to become Certified Work Ready Communities. Clarendon County, S.C., is the second county in the nation that has met 100 percent of ACT’s National Certified Work Ready goals. 

The South Carolina Department of Education recently honored the Aiken County Adult Education Department for awarding more high school diplomas during the 2015-16 school year than any other adult education program in the state….Additionally, seven high schools also re-tested 96 juniors that had previously failed to attain a valuable WorkKeys