Child-care Quality Rating and Improvement Systems in Five Pioneer States

Child-care quality rating and improvement systems (QRISs) are designed to make child-care quality transparent to child-care parents, providers, and policymakers and to help providers improve their quality. This monograph discusses the development and implementation of QRISs in Oklahoma, Colorado, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, highlighting lessons that the states learned and recommendations for QRIS development and refinement.It discusses the development and implementation of child-care quality rating and improvement systems (QRISs) in Oklahoma, Colorado, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, offering recommendations for QRIS development and refinement.