 | Tough Budget Choices, Smaller Government and Job Creation Top Governors' Priorities in 2011
As governors deliver their 2011 State of the State addresses, they continue to face fiscal stress and high unemployment, according to a new issue brief released by the NGA Center.
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 | State Clean Energy Financing Guidebook
To help states consider innovative clean energy program financing options that maximize state resources, the NGA Center released the State Clean Energy Financing Guidebook. The Guidebook helps states consider three important elements of a clean energy financing program: sources of capital including bonds, state revenues, and private capital.
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 | Update: 48 States on Track to Report High School Graduation Rates Using Common Formula by 2011
An update from the NGA Center shows that more than half of all states are now publicly reporting, or will have reported by the end of 2010, their high school graduation rates based on a common formula. The report, Implementing Graduation Counts: State Progress to Date, 2010, also indicates that 48 states are on track to report using this formula for the cohort graduating in 2011.
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