Workforce Solutions, the region’s public workforce system, provides a variety of services to improve quality in early childhood education. These services include childcare referrals to for families, professional training, and other supports for childcare workers and businesses, and assessing and mentoring childcare business seeking to achieve quality recognition through the Texas Rising Star (TRS) program.

The contract will be renewable for up to three additional years, contingent upon satisfactory performance, availability of funds, and review and approval by the Board. 

This year, the Early Education Quality request for proposal asked proposers to bid on managing Texas Rising Star, Parental Support, or both. We received proposals from three organizations.In addition to the standard scoring used for request for proposal consideration across the system, we also conducted interviews with qualifying respondents as part of the evaluation process.

Texas Workforce Commission

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Request approval of contract with the University of Texas Health Science Center – Houston; total contact amount is $11,000,000. (Staff Contact: Juliet Stipeche)