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 A Great Start for Kids: Recommendations for a Michigan Child Care Quality Rating and Improvement System
A Great Start for Kids: Recommendations for a Michigan Child Care Quality Rating and Improvement System, released in April 2007, represents the findings and recommendations of a Michigan Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) Workgroup. Following from a lengthy process of fact-finding and collaboration, the group�s recommendations lay the groundwork for a quality rating system for Michigan�s licensed center-based care providers, as well as registered family home-care and licensed group home-care providers. The publication comes in response to State efforts to develop a comprehensive systemic plan for early childhood development and a subsequent legislative mandate to establish, administer and publish a quality rating system for child-care centers, day-care centers, family day-care homes, and group day-care homes, and to make that information available to the public. Although the publication is a valuable resource in the development of a QRIS system in Michigan, full implementation of its recommendations will depend on the acquisition of additional resources and may be informed by further research and practical funding realities.
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