Verify a Pennsylvania Teacher (state certificate) license

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

How Pennsylvania Teacher (state certificate) license verification works

A Teacher (state certificate) in Pennsylvania is licensed by the PA 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 mpi license_type status responsible_person issued expires capacity star_level address city county phone email legal_entity_name flags.

Board note: childcare_provider via PA-DHS-CHILDCARE: DHS/OCDEL 'Child Care Providers including Early Learning Programs Listing Current Monthly' dataset ajn5-kaxt (monthly; COMPASS Find Child Care is an Angular SPA over the same records). Certificate CER-nnnnnnnn is held by the legal entity; the responsible person (owner/director) is printed: verified only when the claimant is that person or the facility/legal entity is in their own name, else ambiguous_match; expired license_exp_date → discrepancy; negative_sanctions flagged. Teachers are PDE TIMS (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 Pennsylvania Teacher (state certificate) license by API

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

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