Washington, D.C. – The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) launched the Policy Academy to Advance Data Dashboards Measuring Student & System Success. The project will be led by Governors’ offices from a bipartisan group of seven states and territories: American Samoa, Colorado, Delaware, Louisiana, Maryland, North Dakota and Oregon.
Inspired by Colorado Governor Jared Polis’ 2024-2025 NGA Chair’s Initiative “Let’s Get Ready: Educating All Americans for Success,” the 18-month project will support state and territory efforts to launch a dashboard tracking measures of student and system success across academics, workforce and postsecondary readiness, civic preparation, and student experience and well-being.
Governor Polis highlighted the NGA Policy Academy in his State of the State address earlier this month: “Through the bipartisan National Governors Association, my Chair Initiative: Let’s Get Ready: Educating All Americans for Success, kickstarted a long-overdue national conversation about how we better connect the skills students get in school with those that lead to a good job. Now, we are putting the lessons learned from Let’s Get Ready into practice. Alongside six other states and territories, led by both Democratic and Republican governors, we are tracking student readiness in real-time with a new dashboard to more accurately and quickly evaluate if students are ready for and successful at what comes next.”
Policy academy participants will meet regularly and receive technical assistance to define student and system success, identify meaningful metrics for students, and develop a dashboard of those metrics.
This project is made possible through support from Britebound, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Raikes Foundation, Strada Education Foundation, Valhalla Foundation, and other partners of the NGA Center.
