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Meet Tom Horne
Tom Horne served twenty-four years in the state's third-largest school district board and ten years as president.
He served in the legislature and was chairman of the academic accountability committee. He was the State Superintendent of Schools from 2003 to 2011 and was elected State Attorney General. While Attorney General, he argued in every court: Superior Court, Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, and US Supreme Court.
He has served in every branch of government:
- Executive: State Superintendent of Schools and Attorney General.
- Legislative: Member of the legislature. On July 11, 2000, the Arizona Republic wrote that Tom Horne “raises the level of debate at the state Legislature by several notches all by himself.”
- Judicial: judge pro tem in the Superior Court and the Court of Appeals.
- Local: School Board Member and President.
He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard College and with honors from Harvard Law School. He taught legal writing at ASU Law School. When not in public service, he was in the private practice of law, focusing on trial work.
In addition to being an avid supporter of music and the arts, he is also a classical pianist who has soloed with local orchestras, such as the Yuma Orchestra and the Scottsdale Philharmonic.
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We are a service organization committed to raising academic outcomes and empowering parents.
VALUES
Honesty and Integrity • Sense of Urgency • Spirit of Service • Quality • Continuous Improvement
The Empower Hotline offers you the opportunity to make a report about inappropriate lessons that detract from teaching academic standards such as those that focus on race or ethnicity, rather than individuals and merit, promoting gender ideology, social- emotional learning, or inappropriate sexual content.
You may call the hotline at 602-771-3500 during weekday business hours from 8:30 to 4:40. Or you may complete and submit the Empower Hotline form.
Click the following link for an analysis and explanation of Critical Race Theory and Social Emotional Learning.
This is not the line to report teacher misconduct involving issues such as physical abuse, sexual abuse, drug and alcohol abuse or others issues of this type. To report these issues, call the State Board of Education Investigative Unit at 602-542-2972.
HOT TOPICS
Since 2002, Arizona law has required that reading be taught through the phonics method and not whole language. The precise statutory reference is: A.R.S section 15-704 (D) which requires the essential components of reading, and (J)(1) That specifies that “‘ Essential components of reading instruction’ Means explicit and systematic instruction in the following:
(b) Phonics encoding and decoding.”