Credential Recommendation FAQ
Please carefully review the Instructions for a Credential Recommendation.
During the last semester of your credential program and/or have completed all exit requirements.
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Your exit requirements are in-progress.
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Spring 2026 Program Completers submitting applications before June 5 will have applications rejected and will need to resubmit. We must wait for your Spring grades to be posted to your transcript before we can process your application. Spring 2026 Program Completer applications can be submitted from June 5.
No payment is due to Credential Services for recommending you for your credential. Once recommended, you will pay CCTC for your credential.
- ESCP/MSCP/SSCP/ECE preliminary: TPA results and CPR certificate
- Administrative preliminary: APA results, Verification of Experience letter, and Verification of Employment as an Administrator form (CL-777)
- Administrative intern: APA results, Verification of Experience letter, and Verification of Employment as an Administrator form (CL-777), internship agreement
- Certificate of Eligibility: APA results and Verification of Experience letter
- PPS Clear: no documents to upload to online application
- PPS Intern: intern agreement, intern addendum, intern job offer, individual intern plan
- Reading Credential/Certificate: no documents to upload to online application
Use the Contact Us form linked below and select "Preliminary Applicant - No Access to Stan State Email." A credential analyst will reply with instructions.
Please DO NOT send this application directly to CCTC.
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Submit all application documents using the appropriate application link.
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Credential Services will then check documents, verify eligibility, and recommend for the credential on a first come, first serve basis.
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You will then be notified via email by the CTC to complete the personal and professional fitness questionnaire and pay the application fee.
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The Subject line on this email is “CTC Notice - Recommendation for New Document.”
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You need to follow the instructions on this email, please read and complete carefully
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The credential fee is $100 (plus tax), unless you have a credit for a Certificate of Clearance. If you have a credit, then your fee will be reduced by $50.
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CTC will send you a second e-mail with a Subject line “CTC Application Received.”
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This includes a payment confirmation and verification that your credential is being processed.
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CCTC’s last email is “Notification of Document Issuance.”
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This provides the details of your credential and will contain a link where the online official record of your document. Keep this official record for employment purposes. CTC will no longer print out and mail official credential documents.
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Credential’s Effective Date: It will either be:
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1) Last day of the semester
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2) Date all requirements are met or
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3) Date application is received by Credential Services.
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For teaching, PPS, Certificate of Eligibility, and Reading Specialist candidates, it takes 10 - 12 weeks from the day we receive your complete application to submit your recommendation to CTC.
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For preliminary administrative applicants and all interns applicants, the processing time is 20 business days.
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All applications will be processed on a first come first served basis.
Administrative Preliminary/Clear
Administrative Intern
Administrative Certificate of Eligibility
PPS Clear/Intern
Reading Credential
ESCP Preliminary
MSCP Preliminary
SSCP Preliminary
Updated: July 16, 2026