This Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) final performance report for the year 2016 describes Delaware's accomplishments, lessons learned, challenges, and strategies Delaware will implement to address those challenges. Delaware made significant progress throughout the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge in four identified areas: 1) continued success in implementing Early Learning Challenge Activities and exceeding outcome targets; 2) building state and community awareness and support of a high-quality early learning system; 3) establishing a permanent governance structure for the state's early learning system and ongoing leadership; and, 4) building a plan for sustaining key Early Learning Challenge initiatives and progress after the Early Learning Challenge funding expires. Success in these and other key grant performance measures clearly indicate that the grant influenced positive system change which directly benefits Delaware's earliest learners and their families.