QUALITYstarsNY ARPA Expansion Impact Report
Read our report about the impact of QUALITYstarsNY's expansion thanks to the historic investment provided through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
The BAS Community Of Practice: A Year-Long Collaborative Project
QUALITYstarsNY and the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) collaborated to launch a year-long Business Administration Scale (BAS) Community of Practice (CoP) for family child care providers. The initiative aimed to connect QUALITYstarsNY participating family child care providers with free, tailored support to sustain and expand their business practices.
Reflecting on QUALITYstarsNY’s Partnership with OCFS for the Child Care Deserts Grant
In 2022, the NYS Office of Children and Families Services (OCFS) launched the Invest in New York: Child Care Deserts Grant, which offered two grant opportunities to help providers open and expand early childhood programs in New York’s child care deserts. QUALITYstarsNY partnered with OCFS to use our model of continuous quality improvement to support the ongoing quality of these programs.
QUALITYstarsNY’s Expansion Under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
New York State allocated an unprecedented $35 million funds to QUALITYstarsNY from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. This three-year investment has allowed QUALITYstarsNY to double its participation and build its capacity and infrastructure for future growth—if an increase in annual funding is provided in the NYS budget to sustain the project on this larger scale.
New Report Explores Relationship Between Early Learning Work Environment and Program Quality in New York State
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 [...]
The QUALITYstarsNY Assessment Report
QUALITYstarsNY: New York State's Bold Step to Ensure Access to Excellence in Early Childhood Education The New York State Early Childhood Advisory Council and the New York Early Childhood [...]
Recruitment Evaluation Report 2012
The goal of the recruitment project was to recruit suitable applicants for the 2012-2014 implementation of QUALITYstarsNY. Early care and education programs were recruited and selected primarily from communities [...]
QUALITYstarsNY Readiness Project Evaluation Report
This report presents the findings from the evaluation of QUALITYstarsNY Readiness project. The project was implemented by the Early Care & Learning Council between August 2011 and June 2012 [...]
QUALITYstarsNY Field Test Report
A Field Test of the QUALITYstarsNY Standards was conducted in 2010, with funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), under the auspices of OCFS and with funding [...]