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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How to Build Sustainable Principal Pipelines
Dr. Ellen Goldring from Vanderbilt University joins NGA to talk about how states can support districts in building and sustaining principal pipelines. Resources Implementing for Sustainability: Principal Pipelines in Four ...
Strengthening State-Level Mental Health Policy During Uncertain Economic Times
Mental illness – which includes a wide range of conditions that affect mood, thinking, and behavior, such as anxiety disorders, depression, and schizophrenia – affects 1 in 5 adults in ...
NGA Nuclear Dispatch: Advancing Nuclear Energy in Virginia and Tennessee
After a robust build out of nuclear capacity towards the end of the 20th century, the United States is currently positioned to experience a nuclear renaissance. (Download) Executive Statement While ...
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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States Continue Advancing Strategies to Scale Work-Based Learning
This paper is a guide for how governors can lead the way on expanding work-based learning opportunities as part of ...
Financing an Equitable and High-Quality K-12 Education System
The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) hosted a webinar that provided state examples and strategies to ...
Governors’ Education Policy Advisors Institute
December 13-15, 2017 | Miami Beach, FL The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) hosted governors’ education ...
State Trends for Advancing Energy Storage
This webinar will provide state policymakers with insights on some of the ways that states can advance the deployment of ...
State Trends for Advancing Energy Storage
Advanced energy storage technologies are transforming the U.S. electric power market to one that is more resilient, cleaner and more ...
Building Complex Care Programs: A Road Map for States
Since 2013, the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) Health Division has worked with 10 states and ...
Mid-Course Workshop of the Policy Academy on Power Sector Modernization
November 29–December 1, 2017 | Orlando, FL The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) hosted the Mid-Course ...
Powering Up: State Trends for Advancing the Use of Energy Storage
Advanced energy storage technologies are transforming the U.S. electric power market to one that is more resilient, cleaner and more ...
Intergovernmental Meeting with the U.S. Department of Energy
November 15–17, 2017 | San Antonio, TX The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) hosted the 16th ...
Grid Smarts: State Considerations for Adopting Grid Modernization Technologies
Governors can guide the consideration of trade-offs in adopting grid modernization technologies by setting clear policy goals and ensuring that ...
Maternal and Child Health Update 2016
Health care costs continue to rise around the country, and so states are looking for ways to reduce spending while ...
Nuclear Energy Webinar Series
The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) hosted a webinar series on nuclear energy. As nuclear power ...
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