Verify a New York Teacher (state certificate) license

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

How New York Teacher (state certificate) license verification works

A Teacher (state certificate) in New York is licensed by the NY 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 provider_name issued expires opened capacity address city county phone profile_url flags.

Board note: childcare_provider via NY-OCFS-CCR: OCFS 'Child Care Regulated Programs' dataset cb42-qumz (daily; each row links its hs.ocfs.ny.gov/dcfs profile). Licence/registration is to the provider_name (FDC/GFDC homes) or to the organisation in facility_name (DCC/SDCC/SACC) with the licensee/director as provider_name: verified only when the claimant is the provider of record or the program is in their own name, else ambiguous_match. Teachers are NYSED TEACH (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 New York Teacher (state certificate) license by API

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

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