Tom Horne
Coverage of Tom Horne in the Nexus archive.
- Voucher oversight fight tilts GOP superintendent primary toward Kimberly Yee over Tom Horne
Kimberly Yee leads Tom Horne in the GOP primary for Arizona's Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the race centered on oversight of the state's school voucher program. Yee, a former state treasurer, aims to unseat Horne, an 81-year-old incumbent. The winner will face Democrat Teresa Leyba Ruiz in November.
- Racism doesn’t hide in Arizona’s GOP. It’s a campaign strategy.
Racist attacks against Arizona Republicans Kimberly Yee and Quang Nguyen highlight a campaign strategy within the GOP. An ad portraying Yee as the 'Empress of DEI' with Chinese imagery and music was used to undermine her, while Tyler Bowyer of Turning Point USA engaged in a racist exchange with Nguyen.
- Audit finds Arizona’s universal school voucher oversight is ‘haphazard,’ riddled with gaps
An audit revealed the Arizona Department of Education's oversight of the Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESA) voucher program was haphazard and lacked risk-based auditing processes, leading to automatic approval of unallowable purchases like amusement park tickets and a $1,000 generator. The department prioritized resolving payment backlogs over complying with a 2024 law requiring collaboration with the Auditor General's Office, and nearly 2.3 million sub-$2,000 transactions worth $654 million were automatically processed without required oversight.
- Kimberly Yee says Tom Horne’s voucher program is ‘complete chaos.’ Horne says Yee backed DEI.
Kimberly Yee criticized Tom Horne's school voucher program as 'complete chaos,' while Horne accused Yee of supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Both candidates, running in the Arizona Republican primary for Superintendent of Public Instruction, exchanged allegations during a debate, with Horne claiming Yee wanted to allow parents to use taxpayer funds for luxury purchases and Yee denying any DEI committee membership.