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Governors Prioritizing Postsecondary Strategies: Multiple Pathways Highlighted in 2025 State and Territory Addresses

Governors Prioritizing Postsecondary Strategies: Multiple Pathways Highlighted in 2025 State and Territory Addresses

Governors across the country made clear that postsecondary education remains central to their policy agendas in their 2025 State and Territory addresses—including State of the State, Inaugural, and Budget speeches ...
Membership Monthly – April 2025

Membership Monthly – April 2025

Updates from the NGA Membership Team for April 2025. For more about the programs below and a list of upcoming events please email NGA at: membership@nga.org. ABOVE: Virginia Governor Glenn ...
Workforce Investments for A Robust Health Ecosystem

Workforce Investments for A Robust Health Ecosystem

To help commemorate National Public Health Week 2025, this publication is part of an NGA series that explores policies, programs and considerations to improve population health. Addressing health needs through ...

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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Marking the Road: Infrastructure for Improving Safety

Marking the Road: Infrastructure for Improving Safety

Our roads are at the center of a public health crisis. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ...
Lead-by-Example Workshop: Innovative Financing Solutions For State Building Energy Strategies

Lead-by-Example Workshop: Innovative Financing Solutions For State Building Energy Strategies

The National Governors Association hosted this Lead-by-Example (LBE) workshop to support governors’ initiatives to reduce energy consumption and expenses in ...

Governor Larry Hogan NGA Chair’s Initiative International Study Tour to Australia

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan led a multi-state delegation to Australia for a four-day study tour to explore the country’s innovative ...
Rough Waters: Disaster Preparedness, Response and Recovery for Hurricanes and Floods

Rough Waters: Disaster Preparedness, Response and Recovery for Hurricanes and Floods

The National Governors Association (NGA) Center Homeland Security and Public Safety division held a webinar on common legal challenges posed ...
Governors Education Policy Advisors Institute 2019

Governors Education Policy Advisors Institute 2019

Sept. 25 – 27, 2019, Minneapolis, MN The National Governors Association (NGA) Solutions: The Center for Best Practices Education Division ...

US delegation to build on nations’ shared strengths

Originally published in The Australian. By Larry Hogan It was during the First World War that Australia and the US ...
Human Services Policy Institute

Human Services Policy Institute

NGA Solutions: The Center for Best Practices hosted NGA’s first-ever State Summit on Opportunity Zones. The event featured a range ...

Transportation Electrification: States Rev Up

Governors and states more broadly are pivotal in the ongoing transformation of the transportation sector to one that is increasingly ...

Governor Larry Hogan NGA Chair’s Initiative Infrastructure Stakeholder Summit

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan kicked off the first of four stakeholder summits in Boston, as part of his 2019-20 NGA ...

Infrastructure Stakeholder Summit I: Getting to Work: Relieving Congestion to Boost Economic Competitiveness

As the first of four stakeholder summits in support of Maryland Governor Larry Hogan’s 2019- 2020 NGA Chair’s Initiative, this ...

2019 NGA Transportation Policy Institute

The National Governors Association’s (NGA) first annual Transportation Policy Institute is a unique event that brings together governors’ transportation policy ...
Experts Roundtable on Energy Cybersecurity Coordination and Information Sharing among State, Federal and Utility Officials

Experts Roundtable on Energy Cybersecurity Coordination and Information Sharing among State, Federal and Utility Officials

NGA's Energy, Infrastructure & Environment team hosted an expert’s roundtable on Aug. 15 in Washington, D.C., on the topic of ...

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