Bolivar Bullet
Hyde-Smith Sponsors Legislation
Special to The Bolivar Bullet
The Daily Bullet - Vol. 38 No. 75
U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith recently helped introduce bipartisan legislation to expand agricultural workforce training and education programs at community and technical colleges across the nation.
The Community College Agriculture Advancement Act (S.4730) would amend the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to give community colleges greater access to federal grant funding to develop and expand educational programs focused on careers in the agricultural sector. U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) and Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) led the bill.
“Community colleges are often the front door to careers in agriculture, especially in rural states like Mississippi with an extensive community college system,” said Hyde-Smith. “This bill gives those institutions access to resources that are too often out of reach.”