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Gutierrez and Garcia Speak Out Against Tom Horne’s Witch Hunt Over Five Pages Toward the Scottsdale Unified School District

June 15, 2025 by David Gordon

In a surreal event probably designed to respond to a extreme right wing MAGA challenge from State Treasurer Kimberly Yee, Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne, accompanied by Maricopa County Sheriff Jerry Sheridan, President of the Maricopa County Colleges Police Association/concerned parent Jim Hill and concerned parent Karen Martinson, announced that he would be … Read more

Bravo to Kyrene School District For Standing Up to Tom Horne and MAGA Anti D.E.I. Policies

April 15, 2025 by David Gordon

When there is one side that is for promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (D.E.I.) and another one does not, you can be pretty sure that the group that favors D.E.I. is on the right side of history. Such is the case of the Kyrene Elementary School District in the Tempe/Chandler/Ahwatukee area of Maricopa County’s East … Read more

Tom Horne and the Arizona Board of Education Keep Deepening the Abyss of Potential ESA Fraud

December 27, 2024December 12, 2024 by David Gordon

Arizona’s Attorney General indicted an out-of-state couple on December 2 for fraudulently siphoning off $110,000 in state taxpayer funds through 43 ghost/phantom school vouchers (ESAs). Ignoring the fraud, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne notified the State Board of Education 10 days later that the state would immediately issue funds for all expense requests … Read more

SPI Tom Horne Admits Most Students in the ESA Voucher Program Did Not Previously Attend Public Schools

June 16, 2024May 29, 2024 by David Gordon

Over the last few days, the organization Save Our Schools (SOS) Arizona has launched a state budget education campaign blasting the Empowerment Scholarship Private School Voucher Program (ESA)and the Ducey-approved Flat Tax for blowing a hole (about $1.8 billion) in the fiscal budget, making the Grand Canyon State the financial equivalent of Kansas from the … Read more

More Reaction to Tom Horne Recommending a Twenty Percent Budget Cut for Arizona’s Title One Schools

April 5, 2024 by David Gordon

More reaction has emerged since the Blog for Arizona reported on Arizona Superintendent Tom Horne’s recommendation that Title One Schools may have to endure a twenty percent cut to their budgets for the 2024/25 school year while not doing anything to contain the growth of Empowerment Scholarship Accounts, a private school voucher program that largely … Read more

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