FY 2025 Prop 123 Payment 2

PHOENIX – After more than a year of gathering input from parents, lawmakers and other interested stakeholders, the updated Arizona Department of Education Empowerment Scholarship Account Parent Handbook has been approved in an 8-1 vote by the State Board of Education. State Superintendent Tom Horne made the successful motion to approve.

The ADE/ESS and School Finance sections have worked together to develop a resource for parents, counties, and public education agencies on certificates of educational convenience (CEC).

We’re excited to invite you to an exclusive, invite-only event designed for Arizona’s special education leaders: the 2025 IDEA Director’s Preconference. This is your opportunity to collaborate, learn, and lead alongside peers who are shaping the future of special education across the state.

PHOENIX – State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne says Governor Hobbs’ veto of bipartisan legislation addressing antisemitism in public school classrooms is a terrible error that does not take into account the growing amount of antisemitism nationwide.

PHOENIX- Supt Tom Horne is calling for an Arizona law implementing the new United States Supreme Court decision that upheld a Tennessee law banning youth gender affirming care.

Important update for the FY2025 June State Aid Payment.

PHOENIX – The Arizona Department of Education (ADE) today announced that it is approving retroactive alternative school status for Primavera for the year 2024.

Please see the following public participation information for an ADE/ESS proposal to change the Significant Disproportionality calculation cell size, available on the ADE/ESS webpage.

Please see the following public participation information for proposed ADE/ESS Special Education Dispute Resolution Policies and Procedures, available on the main ADE/ESS webpage.https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/wBgQthgBSoSZ1HKzYA7g3Q