No name Blog

FRPL, DAA, and CAA One Time Funding

  • Fri, Dec 19 2025  •
    • Payment Hot Topics
    • Hot Topics
    • Budget Hot Topics

FRPL, DAA, and CAA One Time Funding

INTERNAL VIRTUAL PD: Free Assistive Technology JOTs

  • Thu, Dec 18 2025  •
    • Assistive Technology Upcoming Events
    • Assistive Technology

Join the ADE/ESS Assistive Technology Team for our 2025-26 spring series, Assistive Technology: Just One Thing (JOT). In these quick 30-minute sessions, we will highlight a single assistive technology tool or strategy that you can use to support your students.  

INTERNAL PD INFO: Remediating the Trickiest Speech Sound Disorders with Amy Graham

  • Tue, Dec 16 2025  •
    • Updates
    • Professional Learning and Sustainability

The ADE/ESS is pleased to sponsor this event. There is no fee to attend. This presentation is a repeat of Amy’s September 2025 session.

INTERNAL PD INFO: Virtual Book Study with the Authors of The Way To Inclusion

  • Mon, Dec 15 2025  •
    • Academic Achievement & Inclusive Practices

What if you had a clear, actionable roadmap for making inclusion thrive? That’s what you’ll find in The Way to Inclusion: Leadership Book Study. If this question has been circling in your mind as a Special Education Director, School Administrator, Special Education Teacher, General Education Teachers, or Instructional Coach, this virtual book study is for you!

DATA MANAGEMENT ALERT: SPED73 and SPED07 Report Update

  • Fri, Dec 12 2025  •
    • Updates
    • Data Management

The SPED07 report for Phase II of the October 1 Data Collection process has been finalized. 

DATA MANAGEMENT ALERT: SPED73 and SPED07 Report Update

  • Wed, Dec 10 2025  •
    • Updates
    • Data Management

Due to an issue with the Data Mart processing, the SPED73 and SPED07 reports were last updated on December 8, 2025. These reports should be updated later today, and we will send a follow-up alert to advise when they are available based on last night’s integrity run.

Horne praises Board action to start process to remove DEI language from teaching standards

  • Mon, Dec 8 2025

PHOENIX – State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne is pleased that the state Board of Education has approved opening the process to review statewide teaching standards to remove Diversity, Equity and Inclusion terms to comply with a federal Executive Order.

DATA MANAGEMENT ALERT: Updated Discipline Data Guidance Document Now Available

  • Fri, Dec 5 2025  •
    • Updates
    • Data Management

Updated Discipline Data Guidance Document Now Available

Horne: AG Mayes refuses to pursue more than $158K in potential ESA fraud

  • Tue, Dec 2 2025

 PHOENIX – State schools superintendent Tom Horne says Attorney General Kris Mayes’ threat to sue the Department of Education over the operation of the Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program is hypocritical since her office has turned down several potential criminal referrals sent by the department.

SECONDARY TRANSITION INFO: Graduation Joint Guidance Memo Available

  • Mon, Dec 1 2025  •
    • Updates

Please see the attached memo, which contains ADE guidance to assist public education agencies (PEAs) in planning compliant and effective graduation pathways for students with disabilities.