Kirkwood Workplace Learning Connection reported a successful year to the Washington County Board of Supervisors at their most recent meeting. The program provides students opportunities for career exploration including job shadows and internships. The report was given by Workplace Learning Connection Director Kristine Bullock and she had this to report on Washington County, “We were also recognized as a top ten workplace learning ecosystem. So the US Department of Education put out a call for proposals from ecosystems throughout the country to try and identify the best practices and the top models. They had over five thousand applications and in the first round they selected the top 100, which we were a part of, and then out of that 100 they selected a top ten. So that was a really cool recognition for us to receive in partnership with our school districts. And from that we learned that we are the only multi-county that we’ve seen in the country. There’s some that there might be multiple districts in the county partnering, but none that are multi-county.”  Along with the report, Bullock also presented a funding request to the Supervisors for the coming year of $2,256.50 which is based on the 2020 population estimate and taken at $.10 per capita.