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Let’s Get Ready: Educating All Americans for Success RoadMap —National Governors Association Launches Plan for State by State Education, Career, Life
Last week over 20 governors from both parties convened for the National Governors Association (NGA) Summer Meeting, where NGA Chair Governor Jared Polis, Chair of NGA, launched the “Let’s Get Ready: Educating All Americans for Success” roadmap. This initiative, developed over the past year, redefines what it means for students to be “ready” for life, focusing beyond academic test scores to include workforce preparedness, civic engagement, and lifelong well-being.
The roadmap, built with input from educators, employers, and innovators, calls for states to rethink and redesign education systems to better align with real-world skills and evolving technology. It outlines actionable steps for governors, including:
Defining a vision for student readiness and measuring progress.
Eliminating government silos to improve collaboration. Building systems and infrastructure to track outcomes. Maintaining accountability through public dashboards. Exploring more effective federal roles in education.
Governor Polis emphasized that education remains the largest state budget priority and a key driver of economic success, urging states to innovate and invest in skills that prepare students for lifelong achievement. Governor Polis shared this vision at the GlobalMindED 2025 conference and will expand on this next June for: Dimensions of Our Democracy: Architecting the Next 250 Years.
The initiative has already earned national attention, with The Washington Post, Axios, KKTV and others. Notable voices like entrepreneur Mark Cuban and U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon joined discussions, underscoring the urgency of adapting education for the future and collaborating to make this vision a reality.
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