NGA Center for Best Practices
NGA Center for Best Practices teams develop innovative solutions to today’s most pressing public policy challenges. The NGA Center is the only research and development firm that directly serves the nation’s Governors.
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High-Quality Youth Development and Out-of-School-Time (OST) Opportunities
In this webinar, Jodi Grant from the Afterschool Alliance and Dr. Deborah Moroney from American Institutes for Research discuss how governors and states can best support students, families, and communities ...
State Snapshots For Strengthening The Educator Workforce
A series of conversations with nationally recognized experts in the education field on strategies and promising practices for strengthening educator recruitment and retention, including for advancing school leadership policies and ...
NGA Welcomes Three States and Territories into Policy Academy to Strengthen Benefits Systems Through Innovative Technology
The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices us pleased to welcome American Samoa, Hawai’i, and Louisiana to the Policy Academy to Strengthen Benefits Systems Through Innovative Technology. The 12-month ...
Reigniting the American Dream
Every American should have the opportunity to build a life of purpose, to strengthen their community, and to help shape a nation defined not only by prosperity, but by potential realized. Yet across our very diverse states, too many people have lost faith in this opportunity. They’ve faced too many obstacles, encountered too many closed doors, and given up the hope of a brighter future. We can do better.
Reigniting the American Dream is more than an initiative. It’s an invitation for every U.S. governor to take action.
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Center for Best Practices Library
Cybersecurity in the Education Sector
Although frequently omitted from conversations about cybersecurity, K-12 schools and institutions of higher education are under assault from so-called hacktivists, ...
Securing Election Infrastructure
The people of the United States are committed to free and fair elections. With the 2016 elections fast approaching, state ...
Cybersecurity in the Health Care Sector
The health care industry faces two major cybersecurity threats. First, the transition from paper record-keeping to electronic health records has ...
Memo on State Cybersecurity Centers
Since 2015, seven states have publicly established or announced the creation of a state “cybersecurity center,” tasked with implementing key ...
Memo on State Cybersecurity Strategies
This memo provides an overview of state cybersecurity strategies, as well as information technology and homeland security strategies with cybersecurity ...
Memo on State Cybersecurity Governance Bodies
This memo identifies commonalities and differences among the 22 states that established governance bodies tasked with identifying the cyber threats ...
Memo on State Cybersecurity Strategies
This memo provides an overview of state cybersecurity strategies, as well as information technology and homeland security strategies with cybersecurity ...
Revisiting Top Trends in State Economic Development
Since the 2013 publication of Top Trends in State Economic Development, governors’ key advisors have continued to explore and implement ...
A Governor’s Guide to Criminal Justice
Governors play a critical role in ensuring public safety and they oversee the state agencies responsible for implementing those policies ...
Medicaid Health Care Purchasing Compendium
States face the ongoing challenge of managing the costs of their Medicaid programs while ensuring beneficiaries have access to quality ...
Leveraging Gubernatorial Executive Authorities to Maximize Scope of Practice for the Health Care Workforce During an Influenza Pandemic Roundtable
An influenza pandemic has a much broader impact on the population than the typical seasonal flu. Pandemics usually lastlonger and ...
Health Investments that Pay Off: Strategies to Improve Oral Health
Tooth decay is the most common chronic disease among American children. Access to oral health care that could prevent tooth ...
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