Verify a Colorado Teacher (state certificate) license

liveCO Childcare / Teacher Licensing · profession key teacher

Live. We query the board directly for every check and the nightly canary is passing.

How Colorado Teacher (state certificate) license verification works

A Teacher (state certificate) in Colorado is licensed by the CO Childcare / Teacher Licensing. PrimaryCheck looks the license up live at the board's public verification system (board lookup) by license number, or by name when no number is supplied. The record the board publishes is captured as evidence, hashed, and rendered into a proof PDF.

Fields returned for this board: license_number license_type status capacity quality_rating quality_rating_awarded quality_rating_expires address city county governing_body.

Board note: childcare_provider via CO-CDEC-CCF: CDEC 'Colorado Licensed Child Care Facilities Report' dataset a9rr-k8mu (licensed facilities only; presence = licensed; no expiry/enforcement column — those are on the Colorado Shines profile). Family child care homes are licensed to the person (provider_name): verified only when the licence is in the claimant's own name; centers/preschools → ambiguous_match. Teachers are CDE (not covered).

What a Teacher (state certificate) license check returns

Field check	Passes when
`license_number`	Equal to the board's number, ignoring prefix and leading zeros
`name`	Last name or declared alias matches; first name exact or nickname
`license_type`	The record is a Teacher (state certificate) license, strictly (no near-miss types)
`status`	The board shows an active status; probation is active with a flag
`expires`	Expiration is on or after today, where the board publishes it
`disciplinary_actions`	Recorded and flagged with any order documents; never silently dropped

Verdicts: verified, discrepancy, not_found, unable_to_verify (with a reason), pending. See how verdicts are decided.

Verify a Colorado Teacher (state certificate) license by API

POST https://api.primarycheck.com/v1/verifications
{
  "person": { "firstName": "…", "lastName": "…" },
  "claims": [
    { "type": "license", "state": "CO", "profession": "teacher", "number": "…" }
  ],
  "purpose": "employment",
  "consent": { "consentId": "cons_…" }
}

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