Verify a Massachusetts Teacher (state certificate) license

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How Massachusetts Teacher (state certificate) license verification works

A Teacher (state certificate) in Massachusetts is licensed by the MA 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 licensed_funded status issued capacity address city zip phone licensing_region umbrella flags.

Board note: childcare_provider via MA-EEC-PROGRAMS: EEC 'Current Licensed and Funded Early Education and Care Programs' dataset iyks-y3g6 on the Education-to-Career hub (monthly snapshot from LEAD; the public Child Care Search childcare.mass.gov/findchildcare is a Salesforce Experience site over the same records). Family Child Care licences are in the person's name (program_name 'Last, First'): verified only when the licence is in the claimant's own name; Center-based Care → ambiguous_match (no director printed). Teachers are DESE ELAR (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 Massachusetts Teacher (state certificate) license by API

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

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