Rx for Health Reform: Affordable, Accessible, Accountable2009-10 NGA Chair Gov. Jim Douglas' Initiative
 | Homeland Security Survey Shows Similar Structures Across States, Evolving Priorities, Funding Concerns
Results of an annual survey of governors homeland security advisors, released during the NGA Winter Meeting, showed similar homeland security governance structures across states, evolving priorities as a result of current events like the H1N1 pandemic and concerns about sustaining security capabilities under current funding mechanisms.
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 | NGA Center Brief Provides Strategies for States to Build Early Childhood Professional Development Systems
The NGA Center released a new issue brief, Building an Early Childhood Professional Development System, which outlines ways for states to ensure high-quality early childhood care and education programs that improve school readiness and later outcomes for young children by building a statewide system of professional development for personnel who work with young children.
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 | Effective State Strategies Help Schools Make the Most of Their National School Lunch Program
A new issue brief released by the NGA Center, State Strategies to Help Schools Make the Most of their National School Lunch Program, outlines state strategies to help schools make the most of the second largest food program in the United States, which serves 31 million school children each day and more than half of children at least once a week.
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The Governors Speak—a report on the 2009 state-of-the-state addresses.
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