This Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) annual performance report for the year 2014 describes Kentucky's accomplishments, lessons learned, challenges, and strategies Kentucky will implement to address those challenges. In December of 2013, Kentucky received notice that they would join 19 other States as a winner of the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge competition. This incredible opportunity allows the Commonwealth to continue the long history of investments in early childhood education that has its roots all the way back to 1965. Most importantly, it allows Kentucky to build on the success of its Quality Rating and Information System and Professional Development and Learning system, both implemented originally in 2001. The Commonwealth has worked to implement the details of the RTT-ELC plan. Now known as KY All STARS, the work of implementation is being led by the Governor's Office of Early Childhood with strong partnerships with the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE), the Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS), the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet (EWDC), and the Early Childhood Advisory Council (ECAC). All of these agencies, along with other partners in public and private organizations, are working to fulfill the ultimate goal of the KY All STARS plan: to increase access to high quality early learning and development programs to more children with high needs. Kentucky's plan divides the work into seven separate projects: (1) Grants management; (2) Redesign of the TQRIS; (3) Expanded use of the Kentucky Early Childhood Standards; (4) Expansion of United Way Born Learning Academies; (5) Implementation of the Strengthening Families Framework of protective factors; (6) Building a responsive system of professional development for early childhood educators and creating a unified registry; and (7) Expansion of the state's Longitudinal Data System to include more early childhood data. The state's scope of work (SOW) for the project, approved in July of 2014, includes more than 400 specific tasks required to complete all projects. [For "At a Glance: The Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge Year 2014 Progress Report," see ED583096.]