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The Aspire Registry is New York's registry for early childhood professionals. Joining has great benefits for both programs and staff, and is also required for participation in QUALITYstarsNY.
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 the current state of child care in the city and puts forth a series of policy recommendations to address current issues related to affordability, availability, [...]
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 of Child Care Employment (CSCCE) at UC Berkeley. The series explores early childhood teachers’ work conditions that impact adult well-being and program quality, through the [...]
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 a birth to five agenda for New York State on WCNY’s Capitol Pressroom radio segment. Listen to the segment
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. Leslie joins QUALITYstarsNY after serving as the Deputy Director of Early Childhood for Children’s Aid Society in NYC. Prior to her work at Children’s Aid, [...]
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 Professional Development Institute are pleased to announce the release of the results of the first-ever comparative analysis of performance data on programs participating in QUALITYstarsNY, [...]
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 within and around Persistently Low Achieving (PLA) public schools. The New York City Early Childhood Professional Development Institute, the Early Care & Learning Council, and [...]
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 with a follow-up phase in October of 2012. Read 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 from various private funders. Click the link below to view the executive summary, full report and appendices. The Field Test of QUALITYstarsNY The field test [...]