{"id":29580,"date":"2026-04-02T14:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=29580"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:07:08","slug":"sen-ossoff-strengthening-education-job-training-in-south-georgia","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-strengthening-education-job-training-in-south-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Strengthening Education Job Training in South Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tifton, Ga.<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2014&nbsp;U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is&nbsp;expanding job training&nbsp;opportunities&nbsp;in South Georgia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff brought Republicans and Democrats together to&nbsp;help train&nbsp;more&nbsp;elementary school teachers&nbsp;for&nbsp;rural Georgia school districts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the funding, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College plans to equip classrooms with new equipment to train more teachers, with a goal of&nbsp;placing more teachers for rural Georgia school districts.&nbsp;The College\u2019s new Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abac.edu\/news\/2025\/11\/abac_launches_new_bachelors_degree_in_elementary_education.html?image\">launches Fall 2026<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff is delivering $790,000&nbsp;for the project through bipartisan government funding legislation that became law on February 3.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBringing Republicans and Democrats together, I\u2019m delivering resources to&nbsp;ensure South Georgia teachers are trained&nbsp;with the skills&nbsp;to&nbsp;help&nbsp;every&nbsp;child in Georgia&nbsp;succeed,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Ossoff said.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>President Tracy Brundage&nbsp;expressed her appreciation, saying,<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cWe are grateful for this investment in&nbsp;ABAC&nbsp;and in the future of rural education. This grant strengthens our new Elementary Education degree through enhanced classroom technology and hands-on training that prepares our students to lead on day one in their own classrooms.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Brundage continued,<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cAs teacher shortages continue to impact communities like Tifton, Bainbridge, and surrounding areas,&nbsp;ABAC&nbsp;is proud to be part of the solution by developing well-prepared, influential educators for schools across Georgia.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em># #<\/em> <em>#<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tifton, Ga.&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is&nbsp;expanding job training&nbsp;opportunities&nbsp;in South Georgia.&nbsp; Sen. Ossoff brought Republicans and Democrats together to&nbsp;help train&nbsp;more&nbsp;elementary school teachers&nbsp;for&nbsp;rural Georgia school districts.&nbsp; With the funding, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College plans to equip classrooms with new equipment to train more teachers, with a goal of&nbsp;placing more teachers for rural Georgia school districts.&nbsp;The College\u2019s new [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29580","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29581,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29580\/revisions\/29581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}