What changed, and when

293 Science of Teaching Reading TExES and 491 Core Subjects EC–6 TExES (Starting no earlier than 9/1/2027)

19 TAC §233.2. A dated transition printed in the rule figure. Anyone planning an elementary move across the 2027 boundary needs to know which examination will be operational when they sit it, and any guide naming only the 391 will be wrong from that date.

Basic skills testing is no longer a certification requirement in PA. However, basic skills testing remains one alternative to the 3.0 GPA certification preparation program admissions standard required by Chapter 354, Preparation of Professional Ed

ambiguous_confirm_with_state on the DATE. PDE states the change as current fact but does not date it on this page, so changedOn records the date this project verified it, not the date the change took effect. Admission to a preparation programme and certification are different things, and a stale guide flattens the two.

House Bill 1178, enacted by the 89th Texas Legislature, requires that any out-of-state certificate submitted for a Review of Credentials must be both valid and active at the time the complete application is received.

19 TAC §§230.111 and 230.113 amended to be effective 2 August 2026, 51 TexReg 4864, under TEC §21.0521 as added by HB 1178, 89th Leg. R.S. 2025.

Effective July 1, 2026, all out-of-state educators applying for Georgia certification in teaching fields must meet the literacy assessment requirement by passing the appropriate Georgia state-approved literacy assessment or by passing a GaPSC-accepted literacy assessment approved by another state.

The freshest live change found anywhere in this project — ten weeks old at capture. Any guide, forum answer or search result written before July 2026 omits it. Neither page lists which other states' literacy assessments GaPSC accepts.

Allows the Superintendent of Public Instruction to update the names of endorsements, transition endorsements, and to remove endorsements from a license that no longer exist.

Every Nevada endorsement name on this page is a staleness tripwire and is re-checked at each refresh.

Repeals NAC 391.136 Endorsement in mathematics and science: Conditions for substitution of course work.

Any guide describing a Nevada maths or science coursework substitution predates this repeal. What replaces it, if anything, is not stated in the summary.

The act allows the state department of education (CDE) to issue a professional teacher license to a teacher with at least 3 years of successful teaching experience in another state or country for which CDE has granted reciprocity. The act eliminates the requirement that an applicant have the successful teaching experience within the previous 7 years.

Signed Act dated 21 April 2026; status Became Law. The verbatim effective-date clause could not be retrieved — content.leg.colorado.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetches. Press reporting places the effective date at 12 August 2026.

In accordance with Act 47 of 2025, standard certification fees have been reduced to no greater than $50. Under state law, the Pennsylvania Department of Education must collect a separate Professional Educator Discipline fee during the educator certification process, which is used to support the education profession. This fee has not been waived in Act 47 and is reflected in the new fee structure below.

A guide reporting "Pennsylvania cut its certification fee to $50" is quoting the true half of a two-column table. The whole table is what an applicant pays.

Please note - changes to our Fingerprint Processing Instructions went into effect April 7, 2025.

This is the single largest difference between the two routes and it turns on the two-year line. A teacher with 23 months of experience faces an induction programme a teacher with 24 months does not.

ambiguous_confirm_with_state. No application-fee amount is published on this site for California. It is knowable only by starting a CTC Online application, which is exactly the point at which an applicant would want to know it.

What is unresolved: SB26-126's compact-state process was reportedly in effect from 12 August 2026, but CDE has published no guidance on how to use it, no annual endorsement-correspondence table, and no mention of the compact anywhere on its out-of-state checklist. Whether the 30-day route is operable in practice, and how an applicant invokes it, cannot be answered from the published record. Immaterial to a Texas applicant, who is not from a compact state; material to anyone moving from one of the 15 member states. Confirm with CDE Educator Licensing, (720) 739-3304.

Colorado's general occupational-credential portability provisions sit in Title 24, C.R.S., outside CDE's licensure pages, and have not been examined.

ambiguous_confirm_with_state. No timeline is asserted on this site for Georgia.

The exception is the Alternate Route Interstate Reciprocity Pilot Program, a five-year programme available only through two participating universities: Rowan University and Rutgers University-Newark.

A teacher arriving with only a special education credential does not hold the base endorsement New Jersey requires underneath it, and will need to establish one.

ambiguous_confirm_with_state. No timeline is asserted on this site for New Jersey. The 45-calendar-day district vacancy rule is a deadline on districts and must not be read as a processing estimate.

ambiguous_confirm_with_state. Whether Nevada operates the compact for incoming teachers is not established by any captured source. Florida is the other compact member in this project that is silent about it on its own pages; Pennsylvania is the member that operates it openly.

ambiguous_confirm_with_state. No processing time is asserted on this site for Nevada.

Not an ambiguity to confirm — a published refusal. No CTE pack can be written for a New York destination, and this project does not publish one.

ambiguous_confirm_with_state for the processing time. CORRECTION, 10 September 2026: this entry first said no fee amount was asserted anywhere for New York. NYSED’s Application Fees and Initial Certificate pages do state it ($100 per title on the endorsement pathway); it is recorded above. New York still refuses to pre-approve, so the applicant commits $100 per title for an unstated wait.

ambiguous_confirm_with_state. No timeline is asserted on this site for Pennsylvania.

Adding an endorsement costs $81 per endorsement on the fee schedule.