At the August 27, 2009 meeting of the Hawaii Teachers Standards Board, members voted to require all Hawaii Sate Approved Teacher Education Programs to seek NCATE accreditation. All IHEs must obtain unit and program accreditation from NCATE. Programs within the unit must be reviewed by the SPAs recognized by NCATE.

This brings the number of states that have mandated national accreditation or NCATE accreditation specifically through legislation or regulation by a state education agency such as the board of education or higher education commission to seven. In 23 states, all public teacher education institutions are NCATE accredited as a result of policy mandate or institutional choice. It is often the case that when public institutions are required to be NCATE accredited - or voluntarily are NCATE accredited - the private institutions seek NCATE accreditation as well.