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Program Area: Special Education
ESS Data would like to inform you of important dates and reporting updates for fiscal year (FY) 2025. The FY25 Important Dates document is on the ESS Data Management web page. This email also outlines important changes for SPED data reporting for FY25, including new and upcoming changes within AzEDS and ESS applications overseen by ESS Data Management.
Program Area: Office of Communications
PHOENIX – State schools chief Tom Horne says “Save Our Schools” leader Beth Lewis owes her membership and Arizona educators an explanation for her support for having biological boys with male genitalia shower in girls’ locker rooms and using girls’ restrooms.
Program Area: Office of Communications
PHOENIX – State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne announced today the U.S. Department of Education (USED) contacted the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) late last week to offer a waiver to recoup approximately $29 million federal Title I dollars that had been under-utilized during the Hoffman administration. The department has submitted that waiver request that will cover State Fiscal Years 2021, 2022, and 2023.
Program Area: Adult Education Services
Program Area: Adult Education Services
Program Area: Adult Education Services
Program Area: School Finance
School Finance would like to inform all districts and charters that we will be using a new system to accept budget and financial report file submissions starting in fiscal year 2024
Program Area: Grants Management
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Program Area: 21st CCLC - Afterschool Programs
Program Area: Office of Communications
PHOENIX – State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne has sent a letter to the News Director of Azcentral.com and The Arizona Republic demanding the retraction of a story falsely blaming the Horne administration for the reversion of $29 million in federal funds.
Program Area: Office of Communications
PHOENIX – State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne issued the following statement in response to today’s reporting on Azcentral about reverted federal grants:
Program Area: 21st CCLC - Afterschool Programs
Program Area: School Finance
Fiscal Year 2025 Instructional Calendars and August Data Capture Date
Program Area: Health and Nutrition Services
Child and Adult Care Centers, Emergency Shelters, Head Starts, and At-Risk sponsors who wish to participate in the CACFP in Arizona must complete a series of trainings and submit applications to AD
Program Area: School Safety
Program Area: Health and Nutrition Services
The Arizona Department of Education Health and Nutrition Services (HNS) is pleased to announce the availability of the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) during summer 2024.
Program Area: School Finance
Truth In Taxation Report Has Been Published
Program Area: Office of Communications
Responding to an inquiry about the status of COVID cases in Arizona and any potential effect on schools, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne says public health agencies now consider COVID to be a common respiratory virus and schools should operate normally.




