Special Education Data Updates Webinar: Wednesday, September 17, 2025 

PHOENIX – Citing the increasing need to protect children, educators and staff on school campuses, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne has submitted a $180 million legislative budget request to sustain and increase funding for the state’s School Safety Program. 

School Finance has identified a bug that is preventing GIFTED ADM from being generated. 

This message has been sent to inform you that the Special Education Data Dashboard (SEDD) application is now open for Fiscal Year 2025-2026. SEDD is a one-stop shop for public education agencies (PEAs) to securely review their SPED data collected over the fiscal reporting year and certify said SPED data at year-end. Effective this year, PEAs can now access, and are expected to review, their SEDD data year-round.

PHOENIX – State schools superintendent Tom Horne says Attorney General Kris Mayes is misleading the public with claims she has leveled at the management of the Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program.

Fiscal Year 2025 Statewide Recalculation (SRC) Adjustments for Career and Technical Education Districts (CTEDs)

FY2025 Statewide Recalculation

PHOENIX – State schools superintendent Tom Horne says Cartwright Elementary School District Board members Lydia and Cassandra Hernandez should immediately resign their positions after deliberately causing a security disruption at Maryvale High School on Tuesday.

PHOENIX – State schools chief Tom Horne says the only way today’s conviction of two people on charges of fraud using Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) dollars could happen was because the Department of Education discovered the activity in 2024 and referred it for prosecution.

PHOENIX – State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne issued the following statement in response to the fatal stabbing of a student at Maryvale High School today.