The National Governors Association’s K-12 Education Team is supporting Alabama, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wyoming to address student academic needs and student and school staff well-being and mental health in their states.
As reflected in Governors’ 2024 State of the State Addresses, bipartisan Governors across the country are prioritizing student success by addressing student academic needs and student and school staff mental health and well-being in their states.
For academic needs, Governors are working to tackle this challenge with multiple initiatives, including through intensive tutoring, leveraging afterschool and summer learning and enrichment programs, addressing chronic absenteeism, and boosting math and literacy supports.
Governors are not only looking at student support from an academic lens but also by addressing students’ mental health and well-being given the increased fear, stress, and anxiety that resulted from the pandemic. Governors’ initiatives in this area include a focus on strengthening cross-agency collaboration between education, health, and human services; increasing parent, family, student, and community engagement; ensuring easier access to student and school-based behavioral health supports; and incorporating mental health…
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