Verify a South Carolina Teacher (state certificate) license

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

How South Carolina Teacher (state certificate) license verification works

A Teacher (state certificate) in South Carolina is licensed by the SC 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: permit_type license_number issued expires operator facility_type capacity abc_rating hours inspections deficiencies licensing_specialist.

Board note: childcare_provider via SC-DSS-CHILDCARE: DSS Division of Early Care and Education 'SC Child Care' provider search (Umbraco, plain httpx GET): /provider-search/excel/?operator=<last>&all=1 CSV (Provider Name, Permit Type License/Registration/Approval/Not Licensed (Exempt), Permit Number, Operator, Facility Type, address, ABC level, capacity; the whole 2,369-row roster with all=1 alone) → /provider-search/?name=<provider>&all=1 cards (permit line + /provider/<id>/<slug>/ link) → profile (Licensing Type & Number, Issue / Expiration Date, Operator, Capacity, hours, inspections with deficiencies, ABC reviews, DSS licensing specialist). No permit-number search: the number is matched in the operator's CSV, then in the whole roster. Family home in the claimant's own name / claimant printed as Operator → verified; another person's home → discrepancy; center otherwise → ambiguous_match. Teachers are SCDE certification (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 South Carolina Teacher (state certificate) license by API

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

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