Connecticut standards alignment

• CIV 9–12.11

  Partially covered

  Evaluate multiple procedures for making governmental decisions at the local, state, national, and international levels in terms of the civic purposes achieved.

  Covered by

  • Connecticut Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal): From Idea to Public Law
  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works

  • · Connecticut Civics, Lesson 4 · How Connecticut picks its judges, and how a bill becomes law
  • · How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal) · the whole course, introduction to public law
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 3 · How a bill becomes a law

  What we do and don't cover: Multiple decision-making procedures are taught and compared: Connecticut's own lawmaking through joint committees, its distinctive legislative APPOINTMENT of judges (and its absence of a citizen initiative), and the federal lawmaking process. The international level the standard also names is not covered — hence partial.

• CIV 9–12.12

  Partially covered

  Analyze how people use and challenge local, state, national, and international laws to address a variety of public issues.

  Covered by

  • How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal): From Idea to Public Law
  • US, State & Local Government: Who Does What
  • Connecticut Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · How a Bill Becomes Law, Lesson 8 · Tracking a bill and making your voice heard
  • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 8 · Where to show up and be heard, at every level
  • · Connecticut Civics, Lesson 5 · Town government and how to take part

  What we do and don't cover: Using the law to address public issues is taught as practice — tracking a live bill, showing up at the level where an issue is decided, and Connecticut's own levers (the town meeting, contacting the Hartford legislators). The litigation ('challenge') half and the international level are not the course's focus — hence partial.

• CIV 9–12.5

  Partially covered

  Evaluate citizens’ and institutions’ effectiveness in addressing social and political problems at the local, state, tribal, national, and/or international level.

  Covered by

  • Connecticut Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • US, State & Local Government: Who Does What
  • How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal): From Idea to Public Law

  • · Connecticut Civics, Lesson 5 · Town government and how to take part
  • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 8 · Where to show up and be heard, at every level
  • · How a Bill Becomes Law, Lesson 8 · Tracking a bill and making your voice heard

  What we do and don't cover: Citizen effectiveness at the local and state level — showing up where decisions are made and tracking a bill — is taught as practice. A systematic evaluation of institutions' effectiveness, and the tribal/national/international levels, are not — hence partial.

What we don't claim

A standards page is only worth reading if the omissions are honest too. We looked at these and left them out:

• Mathematics — nothing. This catalog does no mathematics instruction, so it meets no Connecticut Core Standards (Common Core) mathematics standard.
• Science — one partial claim, via the shared NGSS file. Connecticut adopted the NGSS in 2015 as its K-12 science standards, so our one honest science claim — HS-ESS3-1, partial — comes through the shared NGSS mapping with the limit stated on the entry itself. There is no laboratory work, investigation, or modelling in this catalog, and we will not claim more.
• Connecticut's own state structure is taught more fully than any one code captures. Connecticut Civics teaches the Fundamental Orders of 1639 and the Constitution of 1965, the 1960 ABOLITION of county government (a two-tier state-plus-169-towns system found in only a couple of states), the legislative APPOINTMENT of judges (a Judicial Selection Commission screens, the Governor nominates, the General Assembly appoints to 8-year terms), the absence of a statewide citizen initiative, and the recent rollout of early in-person voting (2024) and no-excuse absentee voting — all from Connecticut's own sources. CIV 9–12.1 (powers of local/state institutions) hosts most of the structure, but the Frameworks are C3 CONCEPT standards, not a Connecticut-government checklist, so none of these distinctive Connecticut facts has a code of its own.
• The Civics standards we checked and rejected. CIV 9–12.6 (critique relationships among governments, civil societies, and economic markets), CIV 9–12.7 (apply civic virtues when working with others), CIV 9–12.8 (evaluate systems that promote civic virtues in different contexts, times, and places), CIV 9–12.9 (use appropriate deliberative processes in multiple settings), CIV 9–12.10 (the roles of personal interests and perspectives on civic virtues, democratic principles, constitutional rights, and human rights), CIV 9–12.13 (evaluate public policies for intended and unintended outcomes), and CIV 9–12.14 (analyze historical, contemporary, and emerging means of changing societies and protecting rights) — the courses either do not genuinely teach these or teach them too thinly to claim, so we do not claim them.
• Connecticut's Dimension-1 inquiry standards and the interdisciplinary HIST/ECO/GEO standards. The Frameworks organize each course into the C3 inquiry arc. Dimension 1 (the inquiry skills — developing questions, evaluating sources, communicating conclusions, taking informed action) and the HISTORY, ECONOMICS, and GEOGRAPHY disciplinary standards that appear inside the High School Civics and Government course (HIST 9–12.x, ECO 9–12.x, GEO 9–12.x) are not the civics-content standards we mapped this pass. The catalog's source-literacy method and its commodity history/economics WOULD map to some of them, as they do in other states, but we mapped the CIVICS (CIV 9–12) dimension and defer the rest rather than over-claim.
• Connecticut's 2023 Social Studies Standards — a future re-map. Connecticut adopted new K-12 Social Studies Standards in October 2023 (a distinct document from the 2015 C3 Frameworks mapped here). This pass cites the 2015 Frameworks, which carry the discrete High School Civics and Government course; the 2023 standards are queued for a separate verbatim re-map. As the finder always advises, confirm against your jurisdiction's current requirements.