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SPED DATA UPDATE: Guidance on Federal Primary Need Indicators

  • Thu, Nov 21 2024  •
    • Data Management
    • Updates

Exceptional Student Services (ESS) has revised how federal primary need indicator reporting works in AzEDS to align with federal guidance on special education data disability reporting. 

Horne says federal education funding safe even without U.S. Dept. of Education

  • Wed, Nov 20 2024  •
    • News

PHOENIX – State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne says the potential closure of the U.S. Department of Education (USDoE) would not mean a loss of federal education money for Arizona because that funding is attached to education laws, not the existence of an inefficient federal agency.

FY 2025 November Expenditure Report (BUDG-25)

  • Mon, Nov 18 2024  •
    • Budget Hot Topics

FY 2025 November Expenditure Report (BUDG-25)

Data Management Alert: Integrity Rule Enhancements for -40055 and -40080

  • Fri, Nov 15 2024  •
    • Data Management
    • Updates

Enhancements to integrity rules -40055 and -40080 have been implemented for SPED data validations in AzEDS. These updates are part of an ongoing effort to ensure clean data during the fiscal year and to avoid corrections of data after the close of the fiscal year. 

 

Website Update for Budget Reports

  • Thu, Nov 14 2024  •
    • Budget Hot Topics
    • Hot Topics

School Finance Reports website now contains budget reports.

Horne: First of more than 16,000 Narcan kits headed to Az. schools

  • Thu, Nov 14 2024  •
    • News

PHOENIX – Flanked by representatives from multiple state agencies and members of department’s task force who worked to procure lifesaving Narcan for Arizona schools, state Superintendent Tom Horne today announced more than 16,000 Narcan kits are now available for distribution to school campuses.

INTERNAL PD INFO: Free Assistive Technology JOTs

  • Wed, Nov 13 2024  •
    • Assistive Technology
    • Assistive Technology Upcoming Events
    • Updates

Are you overwhelmed by professional development? Don’t have time for a 90-minute webinar? We got you! Join the ADE/ESS Assistive Technology Team for our fall series, Assistive Technology: Just One Thing (JOT).

EXTERNAL PD INFO: Registration for the National NRCP Virtual Conference for Paraeducators, RSPs, and Interveners is Now Open!

  • Wed, Nov 13 2024  •
    • Professional Learning and Sustainability
    • Updates

Looking for a conference to support the professional learning of paraeducators who work with students with disabilities? 

Horne: Race and gender politics distract from academics in Osborn district

  • Tue, Nov 12 2024

District supports Black Lives Matters and other political signage on campus

PHOENIX – State schools chief Tom Horne says the Osborn school district in central Phoenix is allowing race and gender politics to distract from academics by displaying signage promoting Black Lives Matter and other politically-charged causes on school grounds.

Department of Education updates Auditor General on ESA safeguards

  • Tue, Nov 12 2024

PHOENIX – The Arizona Department of Education has sent a letter to the State Auditor General updating that agency on measures the Department took in 2023 to implement key internal controls over Empowerment Scholarship Account program functions and processes.

 

The ADE letter addresses two concerns that arose in 2023, and that were immediately addressed publicly.

 

A copy of the letter is attached.