For five years, 15 states — committed to increasing postsecondary education access and improving completion rates at community colleges — participated in the Achieving the Dream initiative. Guiding state planning and decision making, the states identified a student success policy framework constituting five specific policies, described in this report. The framework emphasizes policies related to: a public policy commitment to student success, a strong performance measurement and data system, assessment and placement policies focused on accelerating students, student persistence and completion, and aligned expectations across educational sectors. Additionally, the report presents results of how the states implemented each of the five policies and describes examples of state action for each policy.