K-12 Education
Governors are leading efforts across the country to ensure that students in their states graduate prepared to succeed in postsecondary, the workforce, and life. The NGA K-12 Education Team supports Governors in these efforts by regularly bringing together Governors’ education policy advisors to connect with and learn from each other and national and state experts in the field; providing ongoing responsive and proactive technical assistance; and through the development of resources and reports that spotlight promising practices and actionable strategies on timely topics, including addressing students’ academic recovery and well-being and strengthening educator recruitment and retention.
Latest
The National Governors Association and Education Commission of the States Host K-12 Education Summit
Governors’ education policy advisors convened in Phoenix, Arizona to share gubernatorial strategies in top K-12 education priority areas. Advisors learned from each other and national experts during group panels and ...
State Levers for Recovery: Alabama, ESSER Impact Showcase
The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) hosted the ESSER Impact Showcase in partnership with the National Governors Association and the National Conference of State Legislatures. The showcase featured ...
State Snapshots For Strengthening The Educator Workforce
A series of conversations with nationally recognized experts in the education field on strategies and promising practices for strengthening educator recruitment and retention, including for advancing school leadership policies and ...
State Partnerships for Advancing School Leadership
The National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) hosted a webinar, State Partnerships Advancing School Leadership, in partnership with NGA, Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and National ...
State Strategies For Addressing K-12 Student Needs
A series of conversations with subject matter experts, state education leaders, and practitioners to explore gubernatorial strategies for addressing students’ academic needs and well-being, hosted by the NGA’s Center for Best Practices K-12 Education Team.
State Snapshots For Strengthening The Educator Workforce
A series of conversations with nationally recognized experts in the education field on strategies and promising practices for strengthening educator recruitment and retention, including for advancing school leadership policies and priorities at the gubernatorial and state level, hosted by the NGA’s Center for Best Practices K-12 Education Team. For additional information, research, and resources on principals and school leaders, please visit the Wallace Foundation Knowledge Center.
Meet The Team
- Seth Gerson, Program Director
- Catherine Van Ness, Senior Policy Analyst
- Jillian Meinhardt, Policy Analyst
- Ekaan Ahmad, Policy Coordinator
K-12 Topics
Health and Safety
Missouri Governor Mike Parson and Virgin Islands Governor Albert Bryan, co-chairs of the National Governors Association (NGA) Community Renewal Task Force, issued the following statement after meeting with U.S. Secretary ...
NGA’s Community Renewal Co-Chairs and U.S. Education Secretary Discuss Reopening America’s Schools
Summary of Established State Thresholds (View/Download) Introduction As the country continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring high-quality K-12 education while also minimizing the risk that students, teachers, and staff ...
COVID-19 K-12 SCHOOL OPENING AND CLOSING POLICIES
The need for child care for both young and school age children, who are learning from home during the day while adults work, has thus expanded to more families and ...
Child Care for School-Aged Children
Student and Staff Well-Being
This webinar discusses strategies for cross-agency collaboration, including children’s cabinets, in support of student well-being and whole child policy. Panelists offer lessons learned and best practices from states across the ...
Strategies for Cross-Agency Collaboration to Support Student Well-Being
NGA worked with a bipartisan group of six Governors’ offices to address the well-being of students and school staff during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. The National Governors Association (NGA) ...
Improving Student, Family and School Staff Well-Being
This webinar discusses strategies to address the comprehensive needs of students and families through community schools and wraparound supports. Panelists explain the evidence in this field, discuss how community schools ...
Strategies for Addressing the Comprehensive Needs of Students and Families Through Community Schools and Wraparound Supports
Academic Recovery / Summer Learning and Enrichment
Governors discussed the impact of interrupted instruction on K-12 students and highlighted plans for additional academic supports, including afterschool and summer learning, during their State of the State addresses. By ...
State of the States: Academic Supports
Conversations with education leaders in Colorado and Ohio co-hosted by the National Governors Association and Chiefs for Change. This two-part webinar series co-hosted by Chiefs for Change and the National ...
Elevating Opportunities for Innovation: Education Leadership in Colorado and Ohio
This webinar highlights lessons learned for afterschool and summer learning programs during the pandemic and Summer 2021. Panelists offer recommendations regarding accelerating learning, re-engaging students, and effective use of federal ...
Lessons Learned from Afterschool and Summer Learning and Enrichment in 2021
Digital Literacy
Outgoing NGA Chairman Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson opened the NGA Summer Meeting with an overview of his 2021-2022 Chairman’s Initiative to expand K-12 computer science education. After announcing the initiative last ...
K-12 Computer Science Education – NGA 2022 Summer Meeting
The National Governors Association's 2022 Annual Summer Meeting was held was July 13-15, 2022, in Portland, Maine. Governors met to collaborate on bipartisan solutions to leading policy issues including computer ...
NGA 2022 Summer Meeting
Portland, Maine – In the opening session of the National Governors Association (NGA) Summer Meeting, NGA Chairman Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson unveiled a Compact to Advance K-12 Computer Science Education ...
Arkansas Governor Hutchinson Garners Bipartisan Support for Advancing Computer Science Education Nationally
Educator Workforce
In this episode, Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University, Founding President and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute and President of the California State Board ...
Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond On Preparing And Developing Effective Principals & School Leaders
Governors’ advisors met in Greensboro, North Carolina to discuss current challenges and state solutions in K-12 education policy. By Seth Gerson & Catherine Van Ness The National Governors Association (NGA) ...
Governors’ Education Policy Advisors Institute 2022
Today, National Governors Association Chair New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and Vice Chair Utah Governor Spencer Cox released the following statement regarding the administration’s efforts to address teacher shortages and ...
Governors Welcome Action to Address Teacher Shortages
Education Finance
This webinar explores opportunities, challenges, and strategies for governors as they create and move forward state education budgets during and beyond COVID-19. Topics of the conversation include how governors can ...
Strategies for Advancing Equity Through State Education Budgets During & Beyond COVID
On February 14, 2018, the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices Education division and WestEd held a webinar focused on early care and education (ECE) finance. The webinar highlighted ...
Financing an Equitable and High-Quality System: Investing in Early Learning
The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) hosted a webinar that provided state examples and strategies to address funding formulas, leverage public taxpayer investments and increase effective ...
Financing an Equitable and High-Quality K-12 Education System
K-12, Postsecondary, Workforce Connections
Summary This topic paper details how dual and concurrent enrollment programs can help states overcome workforce readiness and postsecondary access and completion challenges and how governors can strengthen these programs ...
Education Topic Papers a Governor’s Dual Enrollment Framework for Success
$3.5 million in grants to National Governors Association, Education Commission of the States will incubate new pathways to opportunity for 32 million Americans left out of economic growth ...
Strada Education Network Invests in Development of State Policies for Adult Learners, Disconnected Youth
The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) held a learning lab exploring strategies states can use to expand and scale work-based learning opportunities for youth and young ...
Policy Academy on Scaling Work-Based Learning: Knowledge Exchange Learning Lab
NGA K-12 Education Library
State Education Trends for 2023
The top trends across the early childhood, K-12 and postsecondary education continuum from Governors’ 2023 state addresses. In 2022, 36 states and three territories held gubernatorial elections resulting in ten ...
Academic and Career Success – 2023 NGA Winter Meeting Task Force Meeting
At the 2023 NGA Winter Meeting, Idaho Governor Brad Little and Colorado Governor Jared Polis co-hosted a discussion on how Governors are working to meet the needs of students today ...
Governors Engage with Federal Officials
The NGA Winter Meeting offers an opportunity for Governors to meet with Federal Partners and share the real-world impact of federal policies. States are famously “the laboratories of democracy,” and ...
Strategies for Addressing the Comprehensive Needs of Students and Families Through Community Schools and Wraparound Supports
This webinar discusses strategies to address the comprehensive needs of students and families through community schools and wraparound supports. Panelists explain the evidence in this field, discuss how community schools ...
Strategies for Parent, Family, Student and Community Engagement with K-12 Schools
This webinar discusses strategies to improve parent, family, student and community engagement with K-12 schools. Panelists explain the research in this field, offer recommendations for state policy leaders and highlight ...
Governors’ Education Policy Advisors Institute 2022
Governors’ advisors met in Greensboro, North Carolina to discuss current challenges and state solutions in K-12 education policy. By Seth Gerson & Catherine Van Ness The National Governors Association (NGA) ...
Governors Welcome Action to Address Teacher Shortages
Today, National Governors Association Chair New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and Vice Chair Utah Governor Spencer Cox released the following statement regarding the administration’s efforts to address teacher shortages and ...
K-12 Computer Science Education – NGA 2022 Summer Meeting
Outgoing NGA Chairman Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson opened the NGA Summer Meeting with an overview of his 2021-2022 Chairman’s Initiative to expand K-12 computer science education. After announcing the initiative last ...
NGA 2022 Summer Meeting
The National Governors Association's 2022 Annual Summer Meeting was held was July 13-15, 2022, in Portland, Maine. Governors met to collaborate on bipartisan solutions to leading policy issues including computer ...