QUALITYstarsNY has launched a new collaboration with the Early Childhood Career Development Center to offer the QUALITYstarsNY Scholarship. This scholarship can support staff pursuing an early childhood education degree who work at an early childhood program participating in QUALITYstarsNY.
Last week, New York City Mayor Eric Adams released “A Blueprint for Child Care & Early Childhood Education in New York City”. The Blueprint outlines his plans to strengthen [...]
The QUALITYstarsNY community stands in solidarity to acknowledge the loss of lives in Buffalo. As the community comes together to care for one another, we reach out to offer [...]
QUALITYstarsNY has several Quality Standards related to staff trainings that can earn programs points during the rating process. As of April 1, 2022, trainings must be entered into The [...]
We have exciting news! The New York State budget, passed last week, made historic investments in New York’s early childhood system. QUALITYstarsNY will receive $40 million funding to sustain [...]
QUALITYstarsNY has launched a newly redesigned website! As New York State’s Quality Rating & Improvement System for early childhood, QUALITYstarsNY strives to provide critical information to the early childhood community [...]
There's less than one month left to ensure that ALL children and families across New York are counted in the 2020 Census. The 2020 Census will be used to [...]
Update September 28, 2021: QUALITYstarsNY is working with our independent assessment team to resume ERS observations for eligible Provisionally Rated programs beginning in early 2022. Visitor protocols will be [...]
New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer has released a new plan to improve services for children from birth through age 3 in NYC. The plan, NYC Under 3, examines [...]
QUALITYstarsNY is one of three early childhood Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) profiled in a new report series, Teachers' Voices, published this week by Center for the Study [...]