N.G.A. To Focus in Coming Year on Steps To Meet Goals

By Julie A. Miller

SEATTLE--The National Governors' Association will focus its energies in the coming year on stops toward meeting the national education goals, the organization's new chairman has vowed.

"This year, and for the remainder of the decade, we are going to make N.G.A. stand for national goals achievement," Gov. John Ashcroft of Missouri told N.G.A. members holding their annual meeting here last month.

Mr. Ashcroft promised to turn the association's full attention to the education goals adopted by the governors and...