In June 2010, the Wisconsin Legislature approved YoungStar, a new quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) for the state’s nearly 8,500 regulated child care providers. The new system was designed to improve child care in Wisconsin by rating providers based on several measures of quality, offering supportive services and financial incentives to assist providers in making quality improvements, and sharing provider ratings with parents so they could make better-informed child care decisions. By establishing a framework for regular evaluation and observation, and by eliminating public subsidies for providers that failed to meet minimum health and safety standards, YoungStar also was seen as an important means of reducing fraud within the Wisconsin Shares child care subsidy system.