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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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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
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
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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Rural Prosperity Through the Arts & Creative Sector
A partnership between NGA Solutions, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies ...
The Growing Importance of the Arts to Rural America
Published in Governing. We're all too familiar with the stories of rural areas that didn't rebound from the last recession, ...
Braiding Funding and Leveraging Untapped Funding Streams to Support Work-Based Learning
This February 28, 2019 webinar featured: a presentation from National Skills Coalition, a state spotlight on Alabama, and an asset ...
This Is What Leadership Looks Like
Originally published in The Hill. By Scott D. Pattison As federal government dysfunction led to a record partial government shutdown, ...
The Future of the Interstate Highway System
This webinar will discuss the findings and recommendations presented in a new Congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of ...
Defining and Measuring Quality in Work-Based Learning
This February 12, 2019 webinar featured a presentation by the Urban Institute on defining and measuring high-quality work-based learning, and ...
Gubernatorial Education Policy Transition Memo
Summary The gubernatorial education policy transition memo and executive summary entitled "Leveraging Transition: Ten Ways for New Governors to Advance ...
Policy Academy on Scaling Work-Based Learning to discuss the Strengthening Career and Technical Education
During the webinar, state leaders from the Parents and Children Thriving Together: Two-Generation State Policy Network (PACTT Network) shared how ...
Prenatal to Age Three Learning Collaborative
Prenatal to Age Three Learning Collaborative January 7-9, 2019 | New Orleans, Louisiana NGA Center Education Division hosted its Integrating ...
Experts Roundtable on Enhancing Housing Resiliency
The National Governors Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices with the Institute for Building Technology and Safety (IBTS) held an ...
Governors Build Global Ties, Stability in Challenging Times
Originally run on RealClearPolitics.com. By Scott D. Pattison Over the past several years, the leaders of America’s 55 states, territories, ...
Governors: States are Where the Action Is
Note: John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, was the governor of Colorado. Bill Haslam, a Republican, is the outgoing governor of Tennessee ...
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