Tom Horne Superintendent | Arizona Department of Education
Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne has called for the resignation of two school board members who disrupted Maryvale High School in Phoenix. One of the board members, Lydia Hernandez, also serves in the Arizona House of Representatives.
Horne said, “This was an outrageous and indefensible stunt. For two school board members, one who is also a state legislator, to deliberately provoke a security disruption at a school is unconscionable. To do it at Maryvale High School where a student was tragically murdered in a classroom just a week earlier is unbelievably insensitive to the trauma that was inflicted on the students, teachers and staff of that school. These two board members should resign immediately.”
The Phoenix Union High School District stated that the two women were "attempting to circumvent our safety systems and knowingly bringing an unauthorized weapon onto campus." The district reported that the weapon was a box cutter. It also confirmed that neither woman is a parent of any student enrolled in the district.
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