Hakeem, Emily, Jose, and Latisha are all entering preschool in the fall. Their mothers are looking for the highest quality early childhood program they can find. Is there a guide for them to find a five-star program? Are all certified or accredited programs of equal quality? How do these parents and guardians know what defines quality in early childhood education, and will high-quality programs be affordable to all of them? The federal government has defined quality through its funding of Early Learning Challenge Grants, a component of the Race to the Top federal funding program. This article will describe how the state of Washington is planning to use its award to comprehensively reform early childhood education. These initiatives have implications for the field of early childhood gifted education and may be useful to parents when they begin to choose an early childhood setting for their child.