This report presents recommendations to the chief executive officers (CEOs) of over 90 of California's major corporations to strengthen and redesign the state's public elementary and secondary schools. The recommendations build on the current system and on reforms already underway. Although the recommendations are fairly comprehensive, they do not cover some areas that need major reform, such as financing public education, the construction of new school facilities, collective bargaining, business-education partnerships, or social services outside the educational system. The proposals are based on a combination of ideas from effective schools now in operation, and from interviews with educators, political leaders, legislative members and staff, community leaders, and concerned citizens. Summary recommendations, presented to stimulate discussion, include the following: (1) expand and focus schooling; (2) establish accountability based on performance and choice; (3) establish school autonomy, and empower parents, teachers, and principals; (4) modernize instruction; (5) strengthen the teaching profession; and (6) capitalize on diversity. Statistical data are included in six graphs and four tables. A 35-page bibliography is also included. (FMW)