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In the Early Start Act of 2015, the legislature also directed the Washington State Institute The Washington State Institute for Public Policy was directed to evaluate the impact of for Public Policy (WSIPP) to evaluate the Early Achievers (EA) on long-term child relationship between Early Achievers quality outcomes and to produce a corresponding ratings and longitudinal outcomes for benefit-cost a. [...] In (b) The institute shall submit the first report to Section III we provide an overview of data the appropriate committees of the legislature and define and describe the site and child and the early learning advisory council by study samples used in this evaluation. [...] Report including the timeframe of Early Achievers four, due in December 2022, will focus on implementation, the roll-out of the the impact of Early Achievers in the pre-k Washington Kindergarten Inventory of year on outcomes through the 3rd grade and Developing Skills (WaKIDS) (a key outcome include a benefit-cost analysis. [...] Background: QRIS and Early Achievers Implementation In WSIPP’s Early Achievers (EA) Report One In EA Report One Section IV we also review we review definitions of child care quality the implementation of Early Achievers in and discuss the emergence of quality rating Washington State.4 In the following section, and improvement systems (QRIS) in the we briefly highlight several key points United Sta. [...] We omitted children who were enrolled in pre-k during the 2013-14 AY, and kindergarten during the 2014-15 AY.44 Additionally, due to concerns about missing covariate data, our primary analyses omitted children enrolled in pre-k during the 2018-19 AY, and in kindergarten during the 2019-20 AY, although for subsidy participants we test the sensitivity of results to the inclusion of this cohort (see.