{
 "edition": "Florida educator supply, October 2026",
 "updated": "2026-10-31",
 "question": "Who prepares Florida's new teachers, and has that changed as funding became portable?",
 "limit": "Title II counts people who finish a Florida state-approved program that leads to a teaching certificate. It does not count teachers in private schools or microschools who need no certificate, or Floridians certified through out-of-state online programs. IPEDS counts education degrees (CIP 13), many of which do not lead to a certificate. Neither source records where completers go on to teach.",
 "sources": {
  "titleii": {
   "label": "U.S. Department of Education, Title II state report data files, Florida, report years 2012–2025",
   "url": "https://title2.ed.gov/Public/Home.aspx",
   "note": "Report year minus two is the academic year of the completers: the 2025 file covers 2023–24. 'Program completers' column, summed by provider."
  },
  "ipeds": {
   "label": "NCES IPEDS Completions files C2012_A to C2024_A, Florida institutions (HD file STABBR = FL), CIP 13, first majors",
   "url": "https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/DataFiles.aspx",
   "note": "Revised (_rv) files used where published. C2024_A is the provisional release."
  }
 },
 "groups": {
  "state_universities": "State University System of Florida (12 universities and branch campuses)",
  "state_colleges": "Florida College System, traditional and Educator Preparation Institute routes",
  "private_colleges": "Private colleges and universities, including out-of-state institutions approved in Florida",
  "district_charter": "District Alternative Certification Program, renamed Professional Learning Certification Program; run by districts, charter schools and charter management organizations",
  "private_noncollege": "Private providers outside colleges: Teachers of Tomorrow, iteach, Noble Education Initiative"
 },
 "years": [
  {
   "year": "2010–11",
   "report": 2012,
   "state_universities": 4428,
   "state_colleges": 1969,
   "private_colleges": 1009,
   "district_charter": 652,
   "private_noncollege": 0,
   "colleges_total": 7406,
   "total": 8058
  },
  {
   "year": "2011–12",
   "report": 2013,
   "state_universities": 4133,
   "state_colleges": 1583,
   "private_colleges": 934,
   "district_charter": 486,
   "private_noncollege": 0,
   "colleges_total": 6650,
   "total": 7136
  },
  {
   "year": "2012–13",
   "report": 2014,
   "state_universities": 4007,
   "state_colleges": 1541,
   "private_colleges": 892,
   "district_charter": 645,
   "private_noncollege": 0,
   "colleges_total": 6440,
   "total": 7085
  },
  {
   "year": "2013–14",
   "report": 2015,
   "state_universities": 3682,
   "state_colleges": 1416,
   "private_colleges": 759,
   "district_charter": 561,
   "private_noncollege": 0,
   "colleges_total": 5857,
   "total": 6418
  },
  {
   "year": "2014–15",
   "report": 2016,
   "state_universities": 3280,
   "state_colleges": 1379,
   "private_colleges": 705,
   "district_charter": 835,
   "private_noncollege": 0,
   "colleges_total": 5364,
   "total": 6199
  },
  {
   "year": "2015–16",
   "report": 2017,
   "state_universities": 3155,
   "state_colleges": 1233,
   "private_colleges": 493,
   "district_charter": 740,
   "private_noncollege": 0,
   "colleges_total": 4881,
   "total": 5621
  },
  {
   "year": "2016–17",
   "report": 2018,
   "excluded": "The federal file for this year repeats each provider's completers under every route it runs, so totals are inflated. Left out rather than estimated."
  },
  {
   "year": "2017–18",
   "report": 2019,
   "state_universities": 2754,
   "state_colleges": 970,
   "private_colleges": 716,
   "district_charter": 952,
   "private_noncollege": 0,
   "colleges_total": 4440,
   "total": 5392
  },
  {
   "year": "2018–19",
   "report": 2020,
   "state_universities": 2264,
   "state_colleges": 1018,
   "private_colleges": 424,
   "district_charter": 1074,
   "private_noncollege": 10,
   "colleges_total": 3706,
   "total": 4790
  },
  {
   "year": "2019–20",
   "report": 2021,
   "state_universities": 2370,
   "state_colleges": 1007,
   "private_colleges": 440,
   "district_charter": 714,
   "private_noncollege": 24,
   "colleges_total": 3817,
   "total": 4555
  },
  {
   "year": "2020–21",
   "report": 2022,
   "state_universities": 2045,
   "state_colleges": 1058,
   "private_colleges": 427,
   "district_charter": 1140,
   "private_noncollege": 101,
   "colleges_total": 3530,
   "total": 4771
  },
  {
   "year": "2021–22",
   "report": 2023,
   "state_universities": 2335,
   "state_colleges": 1043,
   "private_colleges": 394,
   "district_charter": 1072,
   "private_noncollege": 72,
   "colleges_total": 3772,
   "total": 4916
  },
  {
   "year": "2022–23",
   "report": 2024,
   "state_universities": 2294,
   "state_colleges": 813,
   "private_colleges": 346,
   "district_charter": 774,
   "private_noncollege": 100,
   "colleges_total": 3453,
   "total": 4327
  },
  {
   "year": "2023–24",
   "report": 2025,
   "state_universities": 1746,
   "state_colleges": 796,
   "private_colleges": 416,
   "district_charter": 657,
   "private_noncollege": 162,
   "colleges_total": 2958,
   "total": 3777
  }
 ],
 "titleii_routes": {
  "2010–11": {
   "traditional": 5813,
   "alternative_college": 1593,
   "alternative_noncollege": 652
  },
  "2023–24": {
   "traditional": 2418,
   "alternative_college": 540,
   "alternative_noncollege": 819
  }
 },
 "top_2023_24": [
  [
   "Professional Learning Certification Program (districts and charters)",
   "district_charter",
   657
  ],
  [
   "University of Central Florida",
   "state_universities",
   392
  ],
  [
   "University of South Florida",
   "state_universities",
   338
  ],
  [
   "University of West Florida, both routes",
   "state_universities",
   278
  ],
  [
   "Florida Atlantic University",
   "state_universities",
   179
  ],
  [
   "Florida State University",
   "state_universities",
   163
  ],
  [
   "University of North Florida",
   "state_universities",
   120
  ],
  [
   "Noble Education Initiative",
   "private_noncollege",
   116
  ],
  [
   "University of Florida, both routes",
   "state_universities",
   106
  ]
 ],
 "ipeds_degrees": [
  {
   "year": "2011–12",
   "file": "C2012_A",
   "bachelors": 5581,
   "masters": 5284,
   "public_bachelors": 4506,
   "public_masters": 2708
  },
  {
   "year": "2012–13",
   "file": "C2013_A",
   "bachelors": 5309,
   "masters": 4328,
   "public_bachelors": 4380,
   "public_masters": 2560
  },
  {
   "year": "2013–14",
   "file": "C2014_A",
   "bachelors": 5146,
   "masters": 4697,
   "public_bachelors": 4359,
   "public_masters": 2708
  },
  {
   "year": "2014–15",
   "file": "C2015_A",
   "bachelors": 4728,
   "masters": 4363,
   "public_bachelors": 3853,
   "public_masters": 2600
  },
  {
   "year": "2015–16",
   "file": "C2016_A",
   "bachelors": 4708,
   "masters": 4043,
   "public_bachelors": 3881,
   "public_masters": 2564
  },
  {
   "year": "2016–17",
   "file": "C2017_A",
   "bachelors": 4579,
   "masters": 3999,
   "public_bachelors": 3733,
   "public_masters": 2594
  },
  {
   "year": "2017–18",
   "file": "C2018_A",
   "bachelors": 4262,
   "masters": 3757,
   "public_bachelors": 3449,
   "public_masters": 2540
  },
  {
   "year": "2018–19",
   "file": "C2019_A",
   "bachelors": 4368,
   "masters": 3284,
   "public_bachelors": 3591,
   "public_masters": 2228
  },
  {
   "year": "2019–20",
   "file": "C2020_A",
   "bachelors": 4385,
   "masters": 3485,
   "public_bachelors": 3615,
   "public_masters": 2440
  },
  {
   "year": "2020–21",
   "file": "C2021_A",
   "bachelors": 4271,
   "masters": 3781,
   "public_bachelors": 3459,
   "public_masters": 2562
  },
  {
   "year": "2021–22",
   "file": "C2022_A",
   "bachelors": 4000,
   "masters": 3916,
   "public_bachelors": 3215,
   "public_masters": 2684
  },
  {
   "year": "2022–23",
   "file": "C2023_A",
   "bachelors": 3565,
   "masters": 3790,
   "public_bachelors": 2847,
   "public_masters": 2726
  },
  {
   "year": "2023–24",
   "file": "C2024_A",
   "bachelors": 3549,
   "masters": 3482,
   "public_bachelors": 2849,
   "public_masters": 2480,
   "provisional": true
  }
 ],
 "degree_vs_certificate_2023_24": {
  "institution": "Florida International University",
  "education_bachelors": 433,
  "teacher_program_completers": 65
 },
 "context_url": {
  "noble": "https://flcharterschool.org/marketplace_listing/noble-education-initiative/",
  "plcp": "https://www.fldoe.org/teaching/preparation/plcp.stml"
 },
 "policy_markers": [
  {
   "year": "2014–15",
   "label": "First ESA",
   "detail": "SB 850 (2014) creates Personal Learning Scholarship Accounts, later the Gardiner Scholarship.",
   "url": "https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2014/850"
  },
  {
   "year": "2023–24",
   "label": "Universal eligibility",
   "detail": "HB 1 (2023), approved March 27, 2023, effective July 1, 2023, makes every Florida K–12 student eligible.",
   "url": "https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1"
  }
 ],
 "timing_note": "Colleges fell from 7,406 completers (2010–11) to 3,453 (2022–23), the last year before universal eligibility: 89% of their total decline. The whole pipeline fell 53%. Programs outside colleges rose from 652 to 819; their share grew mainly because colleges shrank. The timing does not support reading the college decline as a response to portable funding."
}