Overview – The National Governor’s Association (NGA) is the collective voice of the nation’s governors that lobbies on behalf of state governments and provides a bipartisan forum to help solve state problems and shape national policy.

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Home page	Recent news articles and links to opinion articles and general information
Features	Includes index of NGG positions on various public policy issues
Center for Best Practices	Policy research, mbest practices information, and other technical assistance in the following areas: Education - Early childhood education, teacher quality, school performance, high school reform & post secondary education. Social, Economic and Workforce - Economic growth, workforce, human services, crime control & corrections. Health - Insurance, aging & long term-care, Medicare & Medicaid, children's health & public policy. Homeland Security - Infrastructure protection, communications, bio-terrorism, agro-terrorism, nuclear terrorism & cyber terrorism. Environment, Energy & Natural Resources - Land use, environmental & energy leadership.
Newsroom	News releases and photos.
Federal Relations	NGA policy positions pertaining to federal policy, reflecting the Governors principles on federal laws and regulations.
NGA Reports	Index of reports and issue briefs, plus a link to the Chairman's 2003-2004 long-term health care initiative.
Hot Topics	Features various hot topics for America's governors.

Featured Article or Paper

Redesigning the American High School

Summary – Virginia Governor Mark Warner has decided to focus the NGA’s efforts in the coming year on improving American high schools. Because tomorrow’s economy will require jobs that require education, skills and training that reach beyond high school, the NGA believes that a more challenging and meaningful high school education is critical. The NGA’s goals are to raise national awareness about the need to improve America’s high schools, with a particular focus on the senior year, and create common definitions for graduation and dropout rates for benchmarking progress relative to other states. The NGA will hold learning institutes for senior state educational advisors on ways states are successfully supporting new high school options and helping at-risk students to graduate. The NGA will develop best practices and a "Top 10" list of policy actions to help governors achieve system-wide high school reform in their states.

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