What is Quality Care for Quality Kids (QCQK) and why is it being developed?
The proposed quality rating system is a statewide effort to improve the quality of child care in Wisconsin by assigning 1-5 stars to each regulated child care program, much like what is done for hotels and restaurants. The proposed system is unique to Wisconsin, but Wisconsin is following the lead of at least 12 other states that have developed statewide child care quality rating systems, some of which have been shown to be effective in improving child care quality. An important goal of the program is to provide better information to families so that they can make more informed child care choices. In the Wisconsin quality rating system, higher subsidy payments will go to programs that provide higher quality care and lower subsidy payments will go to programs that provide lower quality care.
