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  "siteTitle": "Graduate School USA: Federal Workforce Training for Agencies",
  "hero": {
    "headline": "Training the federal workforce since 1921",
    "subhead": "Practitioner-taught courses and certificates across HR, audit, leadership, financial management, acquisition, AI, and data. Delivered your way: onsite, live online, or self-paced.",
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      "value": "Since 1921",
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    {
      "value": "100,000+",
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    {
      "value": "125+",
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      "value": "200+",
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      "value": "400+",
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    {
      "value": "All levels",
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      "nav": "Practice areas",
      "heading": "Training for every federal function",
      "body": "Seven practice areas, each with its own curriculum, certificate programs, and a dedicated page. Start where your mission needs it most.",
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          "title": "Federal HR",
          "body": "Classification, staffing, employee and labor relations, pay, and benefits, with the Certified Federal HR Practitioner ladder.",
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          "go": "Explore federal HR training"
        },
        {
          "title": "Federal audit",
          "body": "Government auditing standards, evidence, and reporting, with the Certified Government Auditor program, Levels I to III.",
          "href": "/audit",
          "go": "Explore federal audit training"
        },
        {
          "title": "Leadership and management",
          "body": "Every stage from first-time supervisor to executive, aligned to the Executive Core Qualifications.",
          "href": "/leadership",
          "go": "Explore leadership training"
        },
        {
          "title": "Financial management",
          "body": "Appropriations law, budgeting, and accounting, with the Master Certificate in Federal Financial Management, Levels I to IV.",
          "href": "/financial-management",
          "go": "Explore financial management training"
        },
        {
          "title": "Acquisition and contracting",
          "body": "Contracting, COR, and program management tracks aligned to FAC-C (Professional) and FAC-P/PM.",
          "href": "/acquisition",
          "go": "Explore acquisition training"
        },
        {
          "title": "AI for government",
          "body": "Practical AI skills for every federal function, from prompt writing to data science and generative AI certificates.",
          "href": "/ai",
          "go": "Explore AI training"
        },
        {
          "title": "Data analytics",
          "body": "Excel, SQL, Python, Tableau, and Power BI, with stackable analytics certificates for federal analysts.",
          "href": "/data",
          "go": "Explore data training"
        },
        {
          "title": "Inside the learning portal",
          "body": "The learner experience behind our self-paced courses: interactive lessons, an always-available AI coach, and progress your training office can track.",
          "href": "/learners",
          "go": "Tour the learning portal"
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      "body": "Every format draws on the same practitioner-built federal curriculum and instructors who have done the work. Choose what fits your headcount, timeline, and budget, or combine them."
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      "body": "When you have a team, an office, or a whole component to train, we bring the course to you and shape it around your agency's mission, priorities, and real cases.",
      "bullets": [
        "Any course or certificate in our catalog, delivered onsite, live online, or blended",
        "A new course built to your specification when nothing off-the-shelf fits",
        "Scheduled around your calendar, for a cohort of any size",
        "Rostering, progress, and completion reporting for the whole group"
      ],
      "links": [
        {
          "label": "Request private training",
          "href": "mailto:onsite@graduateschool.edu?subject=Private%20group%20training%20inquiry"
        },
        {
          "label": "Group training details",
          "href": "https://www.graduateschool.edu/group-training"
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      "bullets": [
        "A published schedule across the whole federal curriculum, entry to advanced",
        "Live online, or in person at 1050 Connecticut Ave NW in Washington, DC",
        "No minimum headcount and no setup: register and go",
        "The same instructors and materials as our private cohorts"
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      "links": [
        {
          "label": "Browse the class schedule",
          "href": "https://www.graduateschool.edu/schedule"
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      "links": [
        {
          "label": "Browse self-paced courses",
          "href": "https://www.graduateschool.edu/self-paced"
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        {
          "label": "See the learner experience",
          "href": "/learners"
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      "links": [
        {
          "label": "View our GSA Schedule on eLibrary",
          "href": "https://www.gsaelibrary.gsa.gov/ElibMain/contractorInfo.do?contractNumber=47QRAA24D004K&contractorName=AMERICAN+PUBLIC+TRAINING+LLC&executeQuery=YES"
        },
        {
          "label": "Email the group training team",
          "href": "mailto:onsite@graduateschool.edu?subject=GSA%20Schedule%20training%20inquiry"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "$common": "sections.whyGsusa",
      "heading": "An established federal training institution",
      "body": "Graduate School USA's federal curriculum is designed and taught in-house by practitioners who have done the work in government, not licensed from a generic library."
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          "q": "Which practice areas do you cover?",
          "a": "Seven areas today: federal HR, federal audit, leadership and management, financial management, acquisition and contracting, AI for government, and data analytics. Each has its own page with the full curriculum and certificate programs, and we build private courses beyond these when an agency needs them."
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        {
          "q": "What's new in your federal training?",
          "a": "Our curriculum is refreshed to current federal law, policy, and practice; we added new AI courses for the federal workforce; courses now run in a modern learning portal, and self-paced courses add an always-available AI coach; and self-paced online options let a learner start anytime and still take the live class for free within a year."
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "cta": {
    "heading": "Plan your agency's training",
    "body": "Tell us your topics, headcount, and timeline, and we'll propose the right mix for your team.",
    "buttonLabel": "Start the conversation",
    "mailSubject": "Federal training inquiry",
    "contactName": "Group training team",
    "contactEmail": "onsite@graduateschool.edu",
    "contactPhone": "(888) 744-4723"
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