{"id":1590,"date":"2014-09-08T08:02:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T12:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2015-12-23T08:03:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T13:03:50","slug":"new-awareness-campaign-spotlights-quality-child-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/new-awareness-campaign-spotlights-quality-child-care\/","title":{"rendered":"New Awareness Campaign Spotlights Quality Child Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Info Available Today On Buses, Light Rail, Transit Sites<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>For Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: William Reinhard, 410.767.0486<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Maryland State Department of Education today launched a targeted\u00a0transit advertising campaign for Maryland EXCELS, the State&#8217;s Tiered Quality Rating and Improvement System for child care and early education programs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Searching for quality child care and early education\u00a0programs that promote school-readiness has never been easier, thanks to Maryland EXCELS,&#8221; said Maryland State Superintendent of Schools Lillian Lowery.\u00a0&#8220;The important message to families is that quality matters when they choose an early learning or child care setting. The early years are critical for building social, emotional, thinking,\u00a0and learning skills. Children with these skills are more likely to succeed, and Maryland EXCELS will help families to identify these high quality programs in their area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maryland EXCELS\u00a0builds upon the foundation of the State\u2019s rigorous child care\u00a0licensing requirements and provides the opportunity for child care and early learning programs to demonstrate\u00a0higher achievements and make ongoing improvements in their program to benefit children and families.<\/p>\n<p>Child care providers and early education programs participating in Maryland EXCELS work to meet standards that reflect nationally accepted indicators of quality and best practices in five progressive quality levels. When a program meets all requirements for one of the five quality levels, their rating is published on the Maryland EXCELS web site in the\u00a0<em>Find A Program\u00a0<\/em>portal and on the\u00a0<em>Quality Finder<\/em>\u00a0mobile App.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The transit ads will appear on Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) vehicles and light rail kiosks in Baltimore City and County and on Montgomery County Ride On buses through\u00a0October 5. This campaign promotes public awareness of Maryland EXCELS, and will drive families to the web site to find more information, access the\u00a0<em>Find a Program\u00a0<\/em>portal and download the<em>\u00a0Quality Finder<\/em>\u00a0App.<\/p>\n<p>More information about Maryland EXCELS can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marylandexcels.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.marylandexcels.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Info Available Today On Buses, Light Rail, Transit Sites<br \/>\nFor Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: William Reinhard, 410.767.0486<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe Maryland State Department of Education today launched a targeted\u00a0transit <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/new-awareness-campaign-spotlights-quality-child-care\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-newsreleases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1591,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}