Why quality counts

Developed by Spartanburg County First Steps, Quality Counts is a community-based child care quality improvement strategy. It is designed to build and sustain high quality in early care and education programs using relationship-based technical assistance, mentoring, specialized training, and a director network. This map only shows programs funded by South Carolina First Steps.

For more information about services available in your area, contact your local First Steps partnership. The total score is then translated into a star rating level star scale. Quality Counts aims to produce measurable improvements in the quality of child care provided to children First Steps 4K offers free four-year-old kindergarten to qualifying children in South Carolina.

All that being said, there is one thing we will not budge on. And frankly, we are very disappointed about the issue we referenced in the opening. We are sad to say that there are people attacking the youth exhibitor and the family that sold the steer.

They have been threatened and attacked via social media. That my friends, we will not stand for. Well, it seems like the public does for sure. These are the youth that will meet the challenges of feeding a growing world. These same youth will ensure we continue to have the most safe and wholesome food supply on the planet.

And it is these youth that will ensure this happens in a respectful and trustworthy manner. They will search for answers, provide solutions and ultimately save lives through agricultural innovations.

Youth livestock exhibitors deserve respect not ridicule. To close, if you are reading this and would like to attack this young lady, her family, or any youth raising market livestock projects for what they are doing, we ask that you respect them and their privacy.

Livestock show programs, like Quality Counts, are critical in the development of agricultural industry careers of young professionals. Exhibitor participation in Quality Counts helps ensure that Texas 4-H and FFA members can continue to be a part of the greatest youth livestock program in the nation. Dottie Goebel dottie. To take the course, please start with the instructions below!