This amendment provides $250,000 from the general fund to maintain the Guidance to Postsecondary Success Program. Virginia will not meet its goal of becoming number one in the country for adult credential attainment at 70 percent without engaging populations that have traditionally not attended higher education. The GPS initiative focuses on enhancing existing efforts such as SCHEV's 1-2-3 Go! initiative to help students prepare, apply, and pay for college through awareness campaigns and events. It also includes coordinating professional development for secondary and access-provider staff, increasing advising capacity in underserved high schools, supporting early college testing for students in high school, and improving financial aid application completion activities.