Horne responds to Attorney General threats against voter-protected English language law AGO sent warning to AZED
Mon, Aug 14 2023 •
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PHOENIX – State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne has responded to a warning sent last week to his office by the Arizona Attorney General regarding the enforcement of the state’s voter-approved English language instruction model. Horne says the warning amounts to a threat and ignores the will of Arizona voters when they passed the voter-protected Proposition 203 in 2000.
In-person teacher certification assistance returns to Tucson AZED restores service for southern Arizona
Thu, Aug 10 2023 •
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TUCSON – The Arizona Department of Education has restored in-person teacher certification assistance at the department’s downtown Tucson office, making it available there for the first time since 2019.
Horne: Governor’s ESA cost alarms unfounded Independent analysis shows program will save tax dollars
Mon, Aug 7 2023 •
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PHOENIX – Arizona schools chief Tom Horne says an independent analysis of how much the Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program will cost shows the dire predictions made by Governor Hobbs and other opponents of the program are incorrect.
FY2024 Changes to SEI Courses in the AZ Course Catalog
Mon, Aug 7 2023 •
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The FY2024 AZ Course Catalog has a change in the SEI courses where they no longer reference the time in an ELD Block. Please use only AZ01078 for grades 9-12 and AZ51060 for grades K-8. All other codes that have been used will need to be deleted or updated to reflect one of the two course codes for FY2024 as shown in the following table. The FY2024 AZ Course Catalog may be found here.
AZED holds first School Safety Task Force meeting Focus on integrating law enforcement and social work for improved safety
Wed, Aug 2 2023 •
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PHOENIX – Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne convened the first School Safety Task Force today with a focus on getting more armed officers in schools in concert with social workers to protect Arizona’s schoolchildren, educators, and staff.
DATA MANAGEMENT ALERT: Updates to Reporting Developmental Delay
Wed, Aug 2 2023 •
Data Management
Updates
To be eligible for Developmental Delay (DD), students must be younger than ten (10) years of age. Effective fiscal year 2024, students reported with the DD need will fail integrity, receiving error -40072, two months before their tenth birthday.
