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 [...]
QUALITYstarsNY Director Leslie Capello and Sherry Cleary, Executive Director of the New York City Early Childhood Professional Development Institute, discuss the importance of high quality early child care and [...]
QUALITYstarsNY is pleased Leslie Capello as the new Director of QUALITYstarsNY. After a national search, Leslie stood out as the candidate who could best lead QUALITYstarsNY into the future. [...]