Today, college and career readiness is a new expectation for high school graduates. A 2016 study by The Education Trust entitled, Meandering Towards Graduation, reveals a big gap between the expectation and the reality of today’s high school graduates. According to the report, 47 percent of our nation’s 2013 graduates completed neither a college- nor career-ready course sequence. In California, less than 33 percent of African-American and Latino high school graduates in 2014 completed the college preparatory curriculum, known as the “a-g” subject requirements, for admission to the state’s public universities compared to 49 percent of their White and 71 percent of their Asian classmates. Investment in preparing today’s middle and high school students to be college- and career-ready is an economic imperative. According to the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC, 2008)1, our state must produce over two million college-educated workers by 2030 – a figure that is significantly higher than expected on the basis of our current trends.