BrightStars
BrightStars is the state’s Quality Rating and Improvement System for child care and early learning programs. Participating programs meet research-based quality benchmarks on a scale of one to five stars. Rhode Island KIDS COUNT led the process to design and launch BrightStars.
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- 2020 Factbook Indicator: High-quality early learning programs is the percentage of licensed early learning centers, family child care homes, and public schools with preschool classrooms that have a high-quality rating of four or five stars from BrightStars, Rhode Island’s Quality Rating and Improvement System for child care and early learning programs.
- BrightStars Think Tank Recommendations, 2018
- DHS Response to BrightStars Think Tank, 2018
- BrightStars Validation Study Executive Summary, December 2016
- BrightStars Validation Study, December 2016
- Rhode Island's 2009 Child Care Center and Preschool Quality Study
- Rhode Island's 2010 Family Child Care Quality Study
- Rhode Island's 2010 School-Age Child Care Quality Study
- Pilot Test of the Draft Rhode Island BrightStars School Age Child Care (K-5) Framework, 2010
- Pilot Test of the Draft Rhode Island BrightStars Family Child Care Framework, 2009
- Pilot Test of the Draft Rhode Island BrightStars Child Care Center and Preschool Framework, 2008