With feedback gathered from townhall meetings at the start of 2025, Kentucky's education leaders are revising the state's assessment and accountability framework to give districts more choice in how they assess student mastery of content and skills and to give their communities full rein to design local school accountability systems tied to their locally developed portraits of a learner. These portraits reflect broad competencies that communities expect their K-12 students to achieve before they graduate high school. The competencies extend beyond math and reading to encompass skills such as communication and collaboration. Such locally developed portraits have been adopted in more than 140 of the state's 171 districts. [NASBE acknowledges the contributions of the XQ Institute and Whiteboard Advisors in the development of this publication.]