Early childhood care and education; development of unified public-private system.

Superintendent of Public Instruction and Commissionerof Social Services; early childhood care and education. Requiresthe Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Commissioner ofSocial Services to (i) convene a stakeholder group to consider thedevelopment of a statewide unified public-private system for earlychildhood care and education in the Commonwealth and (ii) collaborateto develop a uniform quality rating and improvement system with requiredparticipation by publicly funded early childhood care and educationprograms and voluntary participation by privately funded providers.