To help provide the State with insight into the health of the teacher workforce, Senate Bill (SB) 114 (Chap. 48, Stats. 2023) expanded the Commission’s authority to report out on educator workforce data to include annual certificated educator assignment data that reflects the level of educator preparation. Below are three dashboards that allow users to explore TK-12 educator assignments at different levels of granularity. 

These dashboards include information on educator assignments through the lenses of: 

  1. Assignment Preparation in California as a whole;
  2. through Statewide and Regional data displays; and
  3. Down to Preparation by Subject Area.

The dashboards are intended to be interactive so that users can target information of interest via filtering, hovering, or clicking on the displays. 

For information on operating the dashboards refer to the link below: 

Data Considerations

Preparation is the primary lens for the dashboard’s view, using a color-coding scheme. Fully prepared educator assignments are displayed in gold, while those in underprepared categories are shown in blue. “Fully prepared” assignments are those in which the educator assigned has completed teacher preparation for the 1) setting, 2) subject, and 3) student population served, and “underprepared” means the individual has not completed teacher preparation in at least one of those three areas.  Through this lens, users can discern areas of shortage in California’s educator workforce.  

For information on the definitions used in these data as well as answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) refer to the links below: 

Note:  These data are focused on educator assignment preparation and not educator preparation.  This is important because one educator can have several assignments. For example, a teacher at a middle school typically teaches several periods, whereas an elementary school teacher typically has one.

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Differences Between CDE and CTC Data

These data dashboards are created with the same source data as the Teacher Assignment Monitoring Outcomes (TAMO) reports furnished by the California Department of Education (CDE).  Though drawn from the same dataset, there are key notable differences: 

  1. TAMO outcomes are calculated using Full-Time Equivalency (FTE), or the percentage of time spent working in a job classification.  However, the Commission’s dashboards present educator assignments, of which one educator many have multiple; 
  2. TAMO is focused on the definitions aligned with California’s Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) state plan, while the Commission’s are aligned with the State Accountability Report Card (SARC) definitions; and  
  3. TAMO excludes assignments where a teacher cannot be identified by a Statewide Educator Identifier (SEID), while these dashboards include outcomes for these assignments under the "Unknown" category.

Despite these slight variations in the data presented by CDE and the Commission, these dashboards will, for the first time, bring educator workforce data into significant alignment with the data presented by other California State educational agencies. The Educator Workforce dashboards provide new insight into the State’s educator workforce and will serve as a valuable tool for local educational agencies (LEAs), policy makers, and advocates to assess the state of the teacher workforce.  

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Updated March 26, 2025