Arizona State Board of Education Votes to Cut DEI Standards in Compliance With Trump Executive Order
“The state cannot ignore this directive without jeopardizing critical federal funding streams.”
When it comes to DEI issues, cutting is better than renaming.
Campus Reform reports:
Arizona State Board of Education votes to cut DEI standards to comply with Trump executive order
The Arizona State Board of Education has voted to begin removing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) from the state curriculum to reshape teaching standards.
Now, Arizona’s Structured English Immersion curriculum and the Arizona Professional Teaching Standards will have term and systems redefined to be in compliance with federal instructions, removing DEI baselines, as reported by AZCentral.
In January, President Trump signed an executive order that directed federal government agencies to begin removing DEI from school standards.
Then in November, Arizona legislators sent a letter to the Arizona State Board of Education voicing their “Support for ADE’s Recommendation Striking Language to Comply with Federal Standards.”
Within the letter, legislators mentioned President Trump’s executive order, and stated that, “The state cannot ignore this directive without jeopardizing critical federal funding streams.”
The legislators also mentioned a state statute on education, A.R.S. § 15-756.01, which the group said “is intended to be a model focused only on research-based English language acquisition.”
The group added that “The insertion of DEI-aligned language, political ideology, or racialized theories is not only outside the scope of the statute, but it also actively undermines the purpose of SEI by introducing content that divides classrooms, distracts educators, and shifts instructional time away from what the law actually requires.”
The legislators closed the letter by urging the Arizona Board of Education to ensure that “Arizona’s standards must be academically focused, legally compliant, and free from political manipulation.”
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You have to understand Arizona politics. The Arizona legislature (nominally ultimately in charge of the education establishment) wants to do this very much. The state Board of Education isn’t a proponent, but they know how to take orders. The real brake lockup is going to be at the university and school interfaces themselves. The administration of the three state colleges are die-hard Marxist, as are the teachers unions for “lower education.”
TL;DR: Arizona has achieved only “the easy part.”
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