Schools are experiencing unprecedented disruption, forcing educators to think differently about how they engage with their students and forcing changes to longstanding systems that have been established to deliver education. This presents an opportunity to not only discover ways to address education during the coronavirus pandemic, but also to address the much longer standing pandemic of racism that has plagued society and the school systems. The collective "why" calls for a transformation from a traditional system to a mastery-based learning (MBL) approach. The Mastery-based Learning (MBL) Work Group looked for ways to increase student access to relevant and robust mastery-based academic pathways aligned to personal career goals and postsecondary education. The Work Group also reviewed the role of the High School and Beyond Plan (HSBP) in supporting mastery-based learning. The recommendations of the Work Group are described in a report to the Washington State Legislature, and summarized in this brief. [For the full report, see ED610100. For the interim report, see ED610102.]