Arizona Restores Credentials to Coach Who Thought Locker Rooms Were for Changing Clothes
- Who
- Alyssa Plaza, former Yuma high school cheer coach
- What
- Had teaching credentials reinstated after 2025 firing for letting a male cheerleader use her office to change
- When
- August 29, 2026
- Where
- Yuma, Arizona
The Arizona State Board of Education voted to restore Alyssa Plaza's teaching credentials on Friday, reversing a 2025 revocation. Plaza was fired from her Yuma high school coaching position after allowing a male cheerleader on her squad to change in her private office, which is located inside the girls' locker room. The district had cited policy violations regarding locker room access. The board's decision allows Plaza to teach and coach in Arizona public schools again.
A school district fires a coach for the radical notion that a student's dignity matters more than a sign on a door, then the state quietly admits the firing was nonsense — all while calling it a 'policy violation' instead of what it was: adults panicking over a teenager's wardrobe.
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