By July 2020, Ohio’s childcare providers who accept publicly funded child care (PFCC) dollars must be star-rated through the state’s quality rating and improvement system, Step Up to Quality. Quality rating systems are intended to drive improvements in the childcare landscape and are a necessary component to regulating quality.
Yet while many providers have already completed this step, some remain unrated. To learn more about these providers’ plans for the future, and to shed light on possible challenges they might be facing, Crane researchers sent out a statewide survey. The paper here synthesizes results from that survey, which was completed by 149 providers.
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SOME OF OUR FINDINGS INCLUDE:
(*based on data from April 2019)
CHILD CARE PROVIDERS’ PLAN FOR THE 2020 MANDATE
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To understand what Ohio’s unrated child care providers plan to do next year, when the state’s quality mandate takes effect, @CraneCenterOSU researchers surveyed them. Our latest white paper breaks down our findings: http://bit.ly/ProviderPerspectives
69% of surveyed programs in @CraneCenterOSU’s white paper were in the process of becoming SUTQ rated or were planning to submit to become rated before the deadline. Our findings suggest that the majority of PFCC-accepting programs will pursue SUTQ rating: http://bit.ly/ProviderPerspectives
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