Excerpts from the introduction:
Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS)-a strategy to improve families’ access to high-quality child care-assess the quality of child care programs, offer incentives and assistance to programs to improve their ratings, and give information to parents about the quality of child care. These systems are operating in a growing number of states-22 states had statewide QRIS and four additional states had QRIS in one or more of their communities as of 2010.