The Arizona Department of Education is partnering with the Prager University Foundation, a conservative nonprofit that creates educational videos, to offer free supplemental resources to the state’s K-12 classrooms.
Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne announced the partnership Wednesday as a largely symbolic endorsement — PragerU classroom resources are already available online for free, and nobody is required to use them. However, Horne will make those materials “more available” to educators by posting them to an Education Department website.
“The choice of the curricula to be used at the school district level is up to the school districts. They have that choice. We want to add to that choice,” Horne said.
PragerU Kids boasts a wide selection of children’s shows, books, magazines and worksheets void of “woke culture or agendas,” according to its website. CEO Marissa Streit said the organization began developing school partnerships and curriculum in response to education “being hijacked by the left” and politicized at the expense of children.