State Specific Information

This report provides an in-depth look at quality rating and improvement systems in Miami/Dade County in Florida and in the States of Tennessee, Illinois, Indiana and Pennsylvania.  This report, on defining and measuring quality, examines the approaches used by five states and communities to measure quality through QRIS.

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This document is the final version of the Washington State QRIS Quality Standards, now completed after a 2-year field test process.  Promoting child outcomes and school readiness is at the core of the framework.

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In 2010-2011, Washington State Department of Early Learning and Thrive by Five
conducted a second year of the Seeds to Success field test in five sites across Washington State.  A research team from the Childcare Quality and Early Learning (CQEL) Center at the University of Washington (UW), which included local coders from each community, was contracted to collect and analyze data from participating childcare businesses in the five field test sites. This report provides details on the results of the field test and recommendations for the Seeds to Success program.

WashingtonStateQRISPilotReport.pdf

An evaluation of the field test of QUALITYstarsNY, New York State's quality rating and improvement system (QRIS), that examined: program recruitment, support, and participation; the use of QRIS standards to measure quality; and the implications for state-wide implementation, based on program observations, surveys, interviews, and documents, and lead agency interviews.

Findings from a comparison of the improvement of the school readiness in children who attend high quality early childhood programs and those who attend lower quality programs as rated by the Missouri Quality Rating System (QRS), based on a sample of 350 children aged 3 to 5 years old from 32 centers and 6 family child care homes in Missouri.

An analysis and research-based revision of the Massachusetts child care quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) standards

This document reflects lessons learned, recommendations and modifications from the two-year Seeds to Success Field Test conducted to create a final version of the Washington State QRIS Quality Standards.  The field test process provided an opportunity to test quality standards as well as system supports and capacity necessary to implement to scale.  The attached table details recommendations from local participants and community leads and the University of Washington.

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