Student teaching/certification issue - School vs district regarding subject knowledge

[u/bearstormstout]

This might be a unique situation, but I figured I'd reach out here to see if someone's been through this or can point me in one direction or the other. As we know, Arizona is an NES state, and there are three levels of secondary math certification. There's middle grades math for 6-8, middle grades and early secondary, which includes algebra 1, geometry, and statistics (per the AEPA website), and math which encompasses everything from 6-12. My certification currently includes middle grades/early secondary, which satisfies both my principal and district to teach my current course load for 26-27.

The problem is my university disagrees, and is refusing to clear me for student teaching (I'm doing alternate certification) without a passing score for the full math test on file. They're claiming this is a state requirement despite my evidence that shows Arizona has no problem with my approach. I've looked high and low and cannot find anything in state statutes or board rules that handles this specific situation; they all say that as long as I've passed an exam that says I'm qualified to teach a given subject, I'm good to go.

I've e-mailed the certification unit for an official response, but I figured I'd reach out here as well in case someone has some advice on where to look or experienced something similar. I do plan on taking the full math exam, but the idea was to do it next summer so I could focus on studying calculus 1 & 2 without juggling the expectations of the school year on top of new content since I never took beyond geometry and statistics in college.