{"id":145055,"date":"2026-01-22T19:05:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145055\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T19:05:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:05:33","slug":"sacramento-city-college-to-be-first-in-california-to-offer-enhanced-atc-training-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145055\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento City College to be first in California to offer enhanced ATC training program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Transportation officials announced Thursday that Sacramento City College will be the next school to offer FAA Academy air traffic control training. <\/p>\n<p>Officials with the Trump administration said the move is aimed at modernizing the controller workforce. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The addition of new schools to our air controller pipeline will allow us to bolster our controller workforce while maintaining the highest training standards,&#8221; said U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>Sacramento City College already offers <a href=\"https:\/\/scc.losrios.edu\/academics\/programs-and-majors\/air-traffic-control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">introductory courses<\/a>\u00a0on air traffic control that give students a boost when they transfer to the FAA Academy.<\/p>\n<p>The new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/air_traffic\/air-traffic-collegiate-training-initiatives-cti\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Enhanced Air Traffic \u2013 Collegiate Training Initiative<\/a>\u00a0will allow SCC to offer courses equivalent to FAA Academy air traffic control training. Graduates from the enhanced initiative can be placed, if hired, directly into a facility where they can already start localized training. <\/p>\n<p>Enhanced ATC program graduates still need to pass the Air Traffic Skills Assessment test as well as meet the standard medical and security requirements, according to the FAA. <\/p>\n<p>Only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/jobs\/students\/schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">nine other schools<\/a>\u00a0across the country offer the enhanced ATC program. Sacramento City College will be the first in California to offer the enhanced training.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Transportation officials announced Thursday that Sacramento City College will be the next school to offer FAA Academy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[26010,14284,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-145055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-air-traffic-controllers","tag-federal-aviation-administration","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}