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Program Area: Special Education
What is Exceptional Student Services?ESS is the section of ADE responsible for ensuring that public education agencies in Arizona have special education programs, policies, and procedures
Program Area: Special Education
How is “parent” defined in the IDEA regulations, and who can legally act as a parent?According to the regulations that implement the IDEA, “[p]arent means — (1) A biological or adoptive pa
Program Area: Office of Communications
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.
Program Area: School Finance
Fiscal Year 2025 Statewide Recalculation (SRC) Adjustments for Career and Technical Education Districts (CTEDs)
Program Area: Office of Communications
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.
Program Area: Migrant Education Program
Rogelio Ruiz | Migrant Education Program Director
Program Area: Office of Communications
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.
Program Area: Special Education
The following questions address the voluntary use of CEIS.
Program Area: 21st CCLC - Afterschool Programs
Program Area: Educator Certification
Certificate RequirementsAn Arizona teaching certificate is an official credential issued by the
Program Area: Title IV-A
Title IV-A Micro-TrainingsTitle IV-A Ins
Program Area: Educator Certification
Program Area: Office of Communications
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.
Program Area: Special Education
ADE/ESS is excited to announce that Arizona’s 2025 IDEA Conference will be held August 21–22, 2025, at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge in Phoenix.
Program Area: Office of Communications
TUCSON – State schools chief Tom Horne says the armed Tucson man who broke into school grounds vowing to kill children at an east Tucson campus earlier this year deserves more punishment than today’s sentence of 18 months in prison followed by probation.
