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Executive summary of Year 2 Quality Counts findings

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Quality Counts (QC) 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, the 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 focused on obtaining the perceptions of key stakeholders as well as directors, teachers, and families about Quality Counts and other related issues. This second year of the evaluation has focused on analyzing data from the QC management information system, Web-based Early Learning System (WELS); obtaining perceptions of Quality Counts from additional directors and teachers whose programs were enrolled in Quality Counts and randomly sampled from all Quality Counts rounds (cohorts), excluding those from the Year 1 evaluation (referred to in this report as Cohort 2); and gathering additional information about Quality Counts, such as the renewal process, from QC directors who participated in the evaluation in Year 1 (referred to as the QC Longitudinal Cohort). Information was also obtained from Non-Quality Counts (NQC) directors who were part of the current evaluation in Year 1 as well (referred to as the NQC Longitudinal Cohort). This executive summary provides brief descriptions of the three major components of the Year 2 Quality Counts evaluation, describes themes from the findings across the components, discusses QC in the context of other QRIS, and offers recommendations for consideration. Additional details about the Year 2 evaluation results can be found in Report of Year 2 Quality Counts Survey Findings (2010) and Year 2 Focus Group Summary: Evaluation of Quality Counts (2010). (author abstract)
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