Even before the nation's governors convened in Washington in March 2005 for a national summit on high schools, many already had proposed plans to make secondary education more rigorous. In this article, the author discusses how governors and legislators in 12 states take steps to put more rigor into high schools. Noting that current state graduation requirements do not even meet the basic standards for admission to the University of Wisconsin, Governor James E. Doyle, a Democrat, proposed legislation requiring a third year of mathematics and science for all the state's public school students. More than half of the governors' state of the state addresses targeted high school improvement, according to the National Governors Association. Hoping to get more students ready for college and prepared for employment, legislators in at least 12 states have introduced bills to make high schools more rigorous. Their proposals range from prescribing a minimum course of study to offering accelerated graduation options and "early-college high school" programs.