The multiple candidates vying for both offices have a rare opportunity not just to reform California’s education system, but to rethink it. Each is grounded in the overarching goal of improving teaching and learning in our schools, especially for our most underserved students. That inequitable model punishes students, particularly low-income students and students of color, for one mistake and mainly benefits tech vendors selling low-quality remedial classes. Granted, the UC system and the BOARS committee that sets the A-G requirements are independent bodies. As I wrote last year, the current system has become a mishmash of the worst aspects of both approaches.