RE: Question 1: The Master Plan

1a:  If the master plan is inteneded as a K-University document, then it should address all students in the California public school system.  I feel it adequately addresses the 20% that end up with a college diploma, but falls short to address the students that do not complete that degree of education.  For some students the best pathway may be a technical degree, AA or on the job training. In fact regardless of whether students get a AA, technical degree, BS,BA, or PhD they will enter a vocation/Career.  They will go to work!!!  They better!!! Their "future" families and the California economy both rely on our ability to teach students marketable skills.  While I think at the primary level we do this.  I know we don't at the middle grades and secondary.  The over emphasis on the University of California A-G requirement (while a great goal for some students) leaves too many of our students asking "Do I really need this".  Regardless of a students college/noncollege plan education has an obligation to students and to the public to have all students ready to "be an adult". Life teaches us as adults to be prepared, plan.  Does the master plan include a way that each student regardless of their college/career plans can or could be self-sufficient after high school?     
I feel the master plan needs to address keeping kids in school.  The 30% dropout rate is unacceptable and really unnecessary.  Kids should feel that they are learning life-long skills in school, skills that will help them succeed.  Skills that will provide THEM, each and every one of them, with a self-sufficient, sustainable, progressive, hopeful future.  If education in California can engage students more successfully we can get more students to successfully transition to postsecondary training...that is planned, meaningful and helpful for their future.  Several studies are showing that students with a career pathway plan in high school are more likely to not only transfer to postsecondary, but to finish.  Students in many model CTE programs and pathways understand the end result.  They understand the "WHY" do I need this...