Verify a North 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 North Carolina Teacher (state certificate) license verification works

A Teacher (state certificate) in North Carolina is licensed by the NC 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 name facility_type permit_type status street city zip phone flags.

Board note: childcare_provider via NC-DCDEE-SEARCH: DCDEE Child Care Facility Search (DNN WebForms + Telerik RadGrid, plain httpx; the page's reCAPTCHA belongs to other widgets). Licence-number search (exact) and facility-name search; the print table adds the Permit Type (star-rated licence / temporary / religious-sponsored notice). No operator is printed: verified only when the facility is in the claimant's own name, otherwise ambiguous_match. Teachers are DPI (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 North Carolina Teacher (state certificate) license by API

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

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