National Governors Association

The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) convened state and territory governors’ health policy advisors in Charlotte, North Carolina, July 8-10 for the 2026 Health Policy Leadership Forum. Through a discussion-based format, the forum provided governors’ advisors, NGA Partners and invited guests with an opportunity to exchange perspectives, sha...

The United States continues to face a severe and evolving overdose crisis, underscoring the need for comprehensive overdose prevention strategies. While overdose deaths have declined in recent years, the

Governors show up, for the ribbon cutting of a major project, the school visit in a rural area, the community group meeting, the list is endless. Turning that endless list into a workable calendar falls to the schedulers who manage a governor’s time behind the scenes. NGA recently brought together executive assistants and schedulers from governors’ offices nationwide to compa...

In this webinar, Jodi Grant from the Afterschool Alliance and Dr. Deborah Moroney from American Institutes for Research discuss how governors and states can best support students, families, and communities through high-quality youth development and out-of-school-time (OST) opportunities. They share key new findings in this area and examine where we’ve seen strong models in ac...

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