Consumer Education and Engagement

The QRIS Resource Guide is intended as a tool for States and communities to explore key issues and decision points during the planning and implementation of a quality rating and improvement system (QRIS).[1] The Guide is divided into eight sections. Each section contains a set of questions, with guidance for addressing the questions, for States to consider and discuss when planning, implementing, or revising a QRIS.

QRISResourceGuide.pdf

This fact sheet gives an overview of the findings of “Parent Priorities in
Selecting Early Care and Education Programs: Implications for Minnesota’s
Quality Rating and Improvement System.”  It provides recomendations about how QRIS can give parents culturally relevent information about charactersitics of programs that are of interest to them.

MELF Cultural Relevance Study Fact Sheet Feb 20 2010-2.pdf

This report covers 18 months of the Minnesota Parent Aware QRIS pilot from July, 2008 through December, 2009, and is part of the process evaluation of the program.  The report addresses the supply of programs and the tuition rates charged by programs in the pilot areas, provides a synthesis of data from multiple sources to describe the number and percent of eligible programs that have enrolled in Parent Aware, their patterns of enrollment, and the star ratings received by those programs.

This Brief uses data to inform development of a statewide child care rating system, which could build on basic licensing standards to assist parents in selecting quality child care.

A brief discussion of state strategies--such as the development of quality rating systems and private-sector partnerships--to improve their systems of early education and care services

Provides a brief for policy-makers details a QRIS and provides an accout of how quality has improved overtime.

This 2007 Minnesota report presents key findings from a survey of parents on the factors that influence their choice of a child care provider and what they consider to be a good quality child care program. Data are intended to inform the development of a child care information/rating system.

This resource includes summaries of the five common elements around which QRIS are built. Examples from state systems are included to illustrate each element

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A cross-state chart comparing the QRIS delivery system infrastructure in Colorado, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania.