Quality Counts is a quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) and professional development initiative in Miami-Dade County, Florida. This system is designed and funded by The Children's Trust, Early Learning Coalition (ELC) of Miami-Dade/Monroe, and the Early Childhood Initiative Foundation/Ready Schools Miami. The Children's Trust has contracted with researchers from the FPG Child Development Institute (FPG) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct a three-year evaluation of the implementation of Quality Counts. The first year of the evaluation has focused on obtaining the perceptions of key stakeholders as well as directors, teachers, and families about Quality Counts and other, related issues. Information was also obtained from Non-Quality Counts directors and families. The section below provides brief descriptions for each of the three major components of the Year 1 Quality Counts evaluation. The next section describes themes from the findings across each component. The last section offers recommendations for consideration. (author abstract)