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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Let’s Get Ready! To Define Success
After a fireside chat on preparing students of all ages for workforce success, and a panel discussion featuring insights from Dr. Richard V. Reeves and Dr. Oon Seng Tan, the ...
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
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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Governors Helping Governors
NGA CEO Scott D. Pattison talks welcoming incoming governors during the Seminar for New Governors, which took place this past ...
NGA/U.S. DOT Webinar on the Build America Bureau’s New Rural Projects Initiative
The webinar, hosted in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), introduced the U.S. DOT’s Build America Bureau and ...
Prenatal to Age Three Policies
The National Governors Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices Education, Health, and Homeland Security & Public Safety divisions held a ...
Midterm Elections: Governors Represent the Best of Bipartisan Progress Across America
NGA executive director and CEO Scott Pattison on the 2018 midterm elections, governors and bipartisanship ...
State Level Policies to Promote Water Utility Consolidation
Gubernatorial leadership in Kentucky helped reduce the number of water utilities in the state from 2,178 in 1974 to 398 ...
NGA releases Expert Roundtable Report on Integrating and Advancing Prenatal to Age 3 Policies
The National Governors Association (NGA) released a report from the June 5, 2018 expert roundtable in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The roundtable ...
School Leadership Under ESSA: State Highlights
Hosted by the National Governors Association (NGA) and Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), this webinar highlighted how governors ...
Emerging Contaminants: Prevention, Treatment and Messaging
October 27, 2017 Join NGA's Water Policy Learning Network to hear from expert practitioners about state policies and programs aimed ...
Water Infrastructure Law A Victory for Governors
The National Governors Association statement applauding the signing of S. 3021, America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 ...
Early Care and Education Workforce 2.0 Cross-State Convening
The National Governors Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices, in partnership with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), ...
Smarter States, Smarter Communities Learning Lab
The National Governors Association convened representatives from five states to participate in the Smarter States, Smarter Communities Learning Lab to ...
Policy Academy on Scaling Work-Based Learning: Second Cross-State Meeting
The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) hosted the second policy academy cross-state meeting focused on assisting ...
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