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YoungStar program rates child care options in Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Shares Child Care Subsidy program helps more than 20,000 low-income families afford child care. YoungStar, a companion program adopted in 2010, is designed to improve child care quality in Wisconsin by evaluating and rating providers, sharing those ratings with parents to encourage their selection of high-quality options, and providing technical and financial assistance to providers to help them achieve higher quality.
Under YoungStar, child care providers are rated on a scale of one to five stars based on their performance on a range of quality indicators. All child care providers that accept Wisconsin Shares subsidies are required to participate in YoungStar, while participation is optional for those that do not.
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