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Certification and Licensure: Data
The TQ Source interactive data tool allows you to extract valuable, customized information related to certification and licensure of teachers across schools, districts, states, and regions.
After you have selected a question below, you will be prompted to choose from several variables regarding certification and licensure. Your selections will generate a customized graph that reflects your desired information.
| 1. | What is the distribution of qualified teachers as defined by NCLB? |
| This question allows you to view the distribution of teachers who are both certified and hold a degree in their main teaching assignment. |
| 2. | What is the distribution of certified teachers? |
| This question allows you to view the distribution of teachers who are certified in their main teaching assignment. |
TQ Source data are based on the 1999–2000 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), and the 1999–2000 Common Core of Data (CCD) conducted by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics.
Nearly 45,000 U.S. public school teachers completed the SASS teacher survey for the 1999–2000 school year. SASS uses a complex stratified sampling design to report accurately for the nation and for each state at an affordable cost. But SASS is not a census; it does not count every teacher. Hence, the numbers and percentages it reports are estimates of what a census survey would tell us. The TQ Source data section allows the exploration of these rich data, nationally, by region, and for each state.
The CCD is a comprehensive, annual, national statistical database of information concerning all public elementary and secondary schools (approximately 94,000) and local education agencies (approximately 17,000; of these, about 14,500 are regular school districts that operate schools). These data are matched with the data present in the SASS to provide additional information to TQ Source users.