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Horne announces $34.8 million for charter schools serving educationally disadvantaged students Wed, Dec 4 2024 News. PHOENIX – State schools chief Tom Horne has announced that Arizona has received a $34.8 million federal grant to establish high-quality charter schools to serve educationally disadvantaged students throughout the state.

Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne has started publicly tracking district and charter schools that have not signed a letter requested by the Trump administration certifying ...

PHOENIX – The Kyrene school district in Phoenix will give up more than $1.5 million in federal funds now that the governing board has adopted a policy that further embeds Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) language into district operations, according to state schools chief Tom Horne. He adds that all Arizona districts and charters are on notice to take this matter seriously.

Thomas Charles Horne (born March 28, 1945) [1] is an American politician, attorney, businessman, and activist who has served as the Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction since 2023 and previously from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he was Attorney General of Arizona from 2011 to 2015. Horne ran for reelection as Attorney General but lost to Mark Brnovich in the 2014 ...

Arizona’s Department of Education says nothing will change for Arizona schools if the U.S. Department of Education is terminated. Tom Horne, the superintendent of public instruction, said the average Arizonan won’t see a change in the education system. "If he does close the Department of Education, the first thing I’ll do is throw a party ...

Tom Horne on Tuesday, March 12, 2024. After federal judges ruled against the Trump administration’s orders to cut funding from schools with diversity, equity and inclusion policies, Arizona Superintendent of Education Tom Horne says he will wait for further steps from the federal government.

PHOENIX — Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne delivered his annual State of Education speech this week, touching on 15 different initiatives his department has recently or is ...

Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne also announced on Monday that the U.S. Department of Education contacted the state education department last week to offer a waiver to recoup the money that was lost because it was not used before a 2023 deadline. “I will always fight for more money for schools, so I am happy to submit this waiver request to the federal government,” Horne said ...

To retain federal funding, each district must pledge not to discriminate based on sex, race or nationality. The U.S. Department of Education letter was forwarded from Horne’s office to Arizona school districts earlier this month. As of Tuesday, 450 of Arizona’s 658 school districts have signed the letter, Horne’s office said.

According to a fall 2024 preliminary report from the Arizona Department of Education, 2.8% of reported teacher positions were vacant, while 5.8% of positions were filled by teachers who did not ...

Arizona Department of Education Superintendent Tom Horne’s efforts to identify and eliminate fraud within Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program recently scored a major legal victory – a grand jury recently indicted two individuals for allegedly enrolling fictitious ESA students, fraudulently obtaining over $110,000 from the program.

Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne’s wish list for Arizona schools includes more armed security, no transgender athletes and less focus on racial differences. ... programs — or were never identified as English learners in the first place — because of changes in scoring that the Arizona Department of Education made to English ...

The Arizona Department of Education threatened to withhold over $1.5 million from Kyrene Elementary School District over a proposed staff wellness policy referencing diversity, equity, and inclusion.

About the Department Banner Mission StatementThe Arizona Department of Education is a service organization committed toraising academic outcomes and empowering parents.Superintendent of Public InstructionTom Horne served 24 years in the state's third-largest school district board, 10 years as president. He served in the legislature and was chairman of the academic

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne announced on Wednesday a new push to work with local law enforcement to keep kids in school. This comes after absence ...

Arizona schools chief supports closure of US Department of Education Nov 21, 2024, 5:00 AM | Updated: 6:56 am Arizona Superintendent Tom Horne believes education should be left up to the states.

He first entered public office in 1979 as a member of the Paradise Valley Unified School District board, where he served for 24 years. Horne joined the Arizona House in 1996 and was elected as ...

PHOENIX — Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne is signaling he has no objection to potentially dissolving the U.S. Department of Education, arguing the agency is "useless" and ...

Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics. Race background. Incumbent Tom Horne, a Republican first elected in 2010, lost his bid for renomination in the August 26 Republican primary, creating an open seat race for the general election.. Midway through his first term as attorney general, Horne was the subject of an ongoing FBI investigation stemming from an alleged hit-and-run incident.