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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Memo on State Cybersecurity Budgets
Funding and sustaining cybersecurity initiatives is one of the fundamental challenges confronting state policy makers. A recent survey of states ...
Using Data and Evaluation in Policy Development, Implementation and Monitoring: Building Successful Policies to Reduce Prescription Opioid Misuse
Policy makers looking to reduce the abuse of prescription opioids face difficult decisions in selecting which of the many interventions ...
State Strategies to Reduce Childhood Hunger
Governors recognize the critical importance of ensuring that school-age children have regular access to healthy meals. Studies show that when ...
Energy Learning Network Webinar: Updates & Insights on State Energy Policy Developments
The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) hosted a webinar on Updates & Insights on State Energy ...
Opening Workshop on Policy Academy on Power Sector Modernization
February 1-3, 2017 | San Diego, CA The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) held an opening ...
Cross State Convening: Leveraging Workforce Investment Strategies to Improve the Early Care and Education Workforce
January 25-27, 2017 | National Harbor, MD The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) hosted the Cross-State ...
Experts Roundtable on State Resiliency Assessment and Planning
January 25-26, 2017 | Washington, DC The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) hosted an experts roundtable ...
Initiative for Resiliency in Energy through Vehicles Policy Workshop
January 10, 2017 | Denver, CO The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) held a workshop to ...
Promoting Place-Based Strategies to Address Poverty
Exploring the Governor’s Role Growing up poor can have lifelong consequences for an individual and for society as a whole ...
Building a High-Performing State Workforce Board
As many as one in three businesses in the United States struggled to fill needed jobs in 2015. Millions of ...
Promising Practices in Boosting School Leadership Capacity: Principal Academies
The role of the public school principal has expanded dramatically in recent decades. The expanded role means they are now ...
State Technology & Policy Questions Around Highly Autonomous Vehicles
The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) hosted a webinar to explore the technology and policy developments ...
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