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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Cultivating Consensus in Human Services
It's critical for Governors and human services leaders to navigate complex issues, especially when political tension feels high. In some scenarios, successful implementation can rely more on framing and relationship ...
Governors’ Perspectives on Addressing Child Care Needs: Supply and Demand Trends to Watch
Opportunities abound for state-led solutions, and Governors continue to take up the mantle by continuing to prioritize increasing the availability of early care and education. (Download) Ten years ago, Governors’ ...
Let’s Get Ready for International Best Practices in Education
Through Let’s Get Ready!, Governors are working with parents and educators not just to find new answers but to ask new questions. The Vancouver convening provided a valuable opportunity to ...
Let’s Get Ready
All Americans should have access to education that prepares them for success in life. As the world changes and technology evolves, ensuring all students graduate with the skills and knowledge necessary for success is increasingly critical for our nation’s economic competitiveness.
As Governors, we lead states facing economic opportunities but also challenges, shortages in workforce, skills mismatch, and widening opportunity gaps that limit true economic mobility for Americans. We must take these indicators as a call to action.
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Using Plain Language for Effective Health Communication
Governors are focused on improving the health and well-being of their constituents, and health communication is a tool that can ...
Advanced Grid Technologies: Governor Leadership to Spur Innovation and Adoption
This paper is part of a series published by the National Governors Association (NGA) to identify actions Governors can take ...
Educating All Americans for Success
Last July, at the NGA Summer Meeting in Salt Lake City, Colorado Governor Jared Polis was elected Chair of the ...
Hard at Work(force) Development
The NGA Center’s Workforce Development team had a busy fall with new publications on Actualizing the Promise of Youth Apprenticeship, ...
Best Practices in School Operations at the Governors Education Policy Advisors Institute
Early on at the 2024 Governors Education Policy Advisors (GEPA) Institute a Governor’s advisor pointed out that when it comes ...
Governors Work Together on Bipartisan Education Solutions
Governors aren’t focused on whether ideas are red or blue; we’re focused on finding policy solutions that work. Colorado Governor ...
Let’s Get Ready to Innovate
The Let’s Get Ready! initiative examines a different facet of education at each convening, and the Las Vegas gathering focused ...
Governor Youngkin, State Housing Advisors Shift the Conversation on Housing
“We know we have a housing accessibility and affordability crisis across America.” Addressing the 2024 NGA Housing Policy Advisors Institute, ...
Key Takeaways from Action Lab on Strategic Financing for a Comprehensive Substance Use Disorder Continuum of Care
States have taken important steps forward to build systems that address SUD and the overdose epidemic. (Read/Download) Introduction Aligning and ...
Let’s Get Students Ready for Success
Ensuring all American high school students graduate with the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed following graduation is at the ...
Governors Prioritizing Financial Literacy
The importance of financial literacy is clear. It allows people to make informed decisions related to budgeting, saving, borrowing and ...
Let’s Get Ready for AI in Education
As part of the Let’s Get Ready! Educating All Americans for Success initiative, NGA Chair Colorado Governor Jared Polis is ...
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