Arizona schools face $866M funding risk over DEI training standards

• Arizona schools chief Tom Horne wants to revise teacher training standards due to federal funding concerns • President Trump’s order requires states to remove “diversity, equity, and inclusion” references from programs receiving federal funds • Arizona’s teacher standards may need to be revised to comply with federal directives

Fearing a loss of federal dollars, a state schools chief, Tom Horne, wants the Board of Education to immediately begin revising the standards used to train teachers in Arizona.

Horne says an order issued by President Trump on the first day of his presidency requires states to scrub any references to “diversity, equity, and inclusion” from programs that receive federal funds. And he contends there are items in Arizona’s professional teaching standards that co