This is why funding for the Child Care and Development Fund should be expanded and
child care subsidy rates should be increased.
Not exact matches
That support can take the form of technical assistance, such as on - site coaching or consultation; financial incentives, like tiered
child care subsidy reimbursement
rates and quality improvement grants; and workforce supports, like wage
subsidies or scholarships for teachers pursuing higher education.Aleksandra Holod et al., Moving Up the Ladder: How Do States Deliver Quality Improvement Supports Within Their Quality
Rating and Improvement Systems?
In a report from earlier this year, the Center for American Progress proposed preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds and a large expansion of
child care, doubling the number of infants and toddlers served and increasing the
subsidy rate.
QRIS were developed in the late 1990s, in large part as a way to direct higher
child care subsidy reimbursement
rates to higher - quality programs.
Implement a tiered
subsidy reimbursement for licensed centers and family
child care homes participating in the quality
rating and improvement system (QRIS).
More vulnerable
children are participating in high - quality
child care - between 2009 and 2016, the percentage of
children under the age of six who receive
child care subsidy or foster
care services and were enrolled in centers with
ratings of 3 stars or above increased from 20 % to 46 %
In return, the state offers financial incentives and technical assistance for program improvement activities, including greater
child care subsidy reimbursements for better -
rated providers.
Despite the funding uncertainties, North Carolina continues to improve its early childhood programs by updating its quality
rating and improvement system, strengthening alignment of NC Pre-K with the k - 12 system, and increasing
child care subsidy funding.
Previously, he was the first Deputy Secretary of the Department of
Children and Families for the State of Wisconsin, where he oversaw the Head Start State Collaboration Office, the
child care subsidy program,
child care licensing, and the creation of Youngstar, the Quality
Rating and Improvement System (QRIS).