The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), enacted in December 2015, presents a historic opportunity for the United States to begin to transform K-12 education toward personalized, student-centered learning. Across the country, state leaders are shifting from a focus on compliance toward continuous improvement and systemic change, in order to support local efforts to redesign K-12 education around student-centered learning. Why? Personalized, competency-based education models are critical for raising achievement for all. The promise of personalized learning is empowering teaching and leadership for dramatically improving outcomes for students--by designing learning environments around how students learn best--to meet the needs of each student and ensure mastery of critical knowledge, skills and dispositions needed for success. This report contains recommendations for supporting and advancing personalized learning and competency education in state policy to realize the promise of the historic opportunities under ESSA. [Bruce Friend, Natalie Abel and Ashley Jones of iNACOL, Chris Sturgis of MetisNet, and Carri Schneider, Catherine Wedgewood and Kelley Tanner of Getting Smart contributed to this report.]