The Professional Standards Commission and the Idaho Department of Education work together to provide Alternative Authorizations and Non-Traditional Routes for Idaho school districts/charters to hire educators to work as a certificated educator while completing the requirements for full certification. The information below provides the number of Alternative Authorizations and Non-Traditional Routes issued by each school year.

Alternative Authorizations

Alternative Authorizations allows a local education agency to request certification for a candidate that does not hold an appropriate certificate/endorsement. These types of applications allow individuals to serve as the teacher of record while completing routes to a standard certificate or obtaining additional endorsement(s).

The table below identifies the total numbers of employed educators working on Alternative Authorization or Emergency Provisional for each school year.

School Year Total number of Educators with a Certificated Assignment Total Number of Authorizations with a Certificated Assignment Percent of Educators working with an Alternative Authorization or Emergency Provisional Certificate
2023-2024 22,017 1005 4.6%
2022-2023 21,814 1177 5.4%
2021-2022 20,983 923 4.4%
2020-2021 20,673 851 4.12%
2019-2020 20,458 798 3.90%

Certificates Issued by Authorization Type

The following table identifies the total number of certificates issued based on the type of authorization. You can find more information regarding the different types of authorization by visiting the Alternative Authorizations webpage.

School Year Emergency Provisional Total Alternative Authorization – Teacher to New Certificate Alternative Authorization – Teacher to New Endorsement Alternative Authorization Content Specialist Alternative Authorization – Pupil Service Staff
2023-2024 172 33 337 412 51
2022-2023 214 44 396 464 59
2021-2022 121 50 335 360 57
2020-2021 85 47 292 389 38
2019-2020 90 42 235 429 2

Non-Traditional Routes to Certification

Non-Traditional routes to certification are for candidates who are utilizing one of the State Board of Education approved non-traditional routes. These candidates complete prerequisite requirements before applying and receiving a three (3) year Interim certificate. The candidate continues their preparation while working as the teacher of record. They must complete additional requirements during the three (3) year Interim certificate in order to qualify for a renewable five (5) year certificate. The table below identifies the total number of employed educators working on a non-traditional route for each school year.

School Year Total number of Educators with a Certificated Assignment Total Number of Non-Traditional Route Candidates with a Certificated Assignment Percent of Educators working with a Non-Traditional
2022-2023 21,814 957 4.38%
2021-2022 20,983 1041 4.7%
2020-2021 20,673 999 4.83%
2019-2020 20,458 911 4.45%
2018-2019 20,054 724 3.61%

Non-Traditional Route Candidates

The following table identifies total number of non-traditional route candidates employed by specific route. Please click the number to open a detailed spreadsheet for each non-traditional route. You can find more information regarding the non-traditional routes by visiting the Non-Traditional Candidate webpage.

School Year American Board of Certification of Teacher Excellence (ABCTE) College of Southern Idaho(CSI) Lewis-Clark State College (LCSC) Teach for America (TFA)
2022-2023 634 244 45 34
2021-2022 755 199 41 46
2020-2021 785 124 37 53
2019-2020 777 69 11 54
2018-2019 680 N/A N/A 44