West Virginia standards alignment

• SS.C.2

  Covered

  Explore social contracts and the establishment of the rule of law, and evaluate how limited government and the rule of law protect individual rights.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights

  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 2 · The Preamble: who, and why
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 6 · Separation of powers and checks & balances
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 7 · Federalism: state and federal power
  • · The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights, Lesson 1 · What is the Bill of Rights?

  Note: The rule of law, limited government, and how they protect individual rights are the constitution course's spine: the Preamble's purposes, separation of powers and checks and balances as the structure that limits government, and the Bill of Rights as the protection of the individual.

• SS.C.7

  Covered

  Evaluate the elements in the U.S. Constitution that make it a living document with democratic principles that are modified and expanded to meet the changing needs of society.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch
  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights

  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 9 · Changing the Constitution: Article V and key later amendments
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 5 · Writing the opinion: majority, concurrence, dissent, and precedent
  • · Know Your Rights, Lessons 2-5 · speech, religion, press, assembly, including at school and online
  • · Know Your Rights, Lessons 6-8 · the 4th Amendment: searches, stops, and your digital life

  Note: The Constitution as a living document is taught through the mechanisms that change it: the Article V amendment process and how Supreme Court precedent expands rights over time through the landmark cases.

• SS.C.10

  Covered

  Analyze the protection of liberties in the Bill of Rights and their expansion through judicial review and the gradual incorporation of those rights by the Fourteenth Amendment.

  Covered by

  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights
  • The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch
  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works
  • Citizenship & Naturalization Basics

  • · The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights, Lesson 1 · What is the Bill of Rights?
  • · Know Your Rights, Lessons 2-5 · speech, religion, press, assembly, including at school and online
  • · Know Your Rights, Lessons 6-8 · the 4th Amendment: searches, stops, and your digital life
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 5 · Writing the opinion: majority, concurrence, dissent, and precedent
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 4 · The courts and judicial review (Marbury v. Madison)
  • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 1 · Who is a U.S. citizen? Birthright and the 14th Amendment
  • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 3 · Becoming a citizen: naturalization eligibility

  Note: Every element the standard names is taught: the Bill of Rights' protections, judicial review (Marbury v. Madison), the landmark cases that expand rights over time, and the Fourteenth Amendment (whose citizenship and incorporation role is taught in the citizenship course).

• SS.C.11

  Covered

  Analyze how the freedoms of speech and press in a democratic society enable citizens to develop informed opinions, express their views, shape public policy and monitor government actions.

  Covered by

  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights

  • · Know Your Rights, Lessons 2-5 · speech, religion, press, assembly, including at school and online
  • · Know Your Rights, Lessons 6-8 · the 4th Amendment: searches, stops, and your digital life
  • · Know Your Rights, Lesson 2 · Freedom of speech: what's protected, and what isn't
  • · Know Your Rights, Lesson 5 · Speech and religion at school, and online
  • · Know Your Rights, Lesson 7 · Police stops, reasonable suspicion, and your privacy

  Note: The freedoms of speech and press are taught as usable rules through the landmark speech and press cases (Tinker, Brandenburg) and where the line falls — exactly the standard's 'develop informed opinions, express their views, monitor government' purpose.

• SS.C.12

  Covered

  Determine how conflicts between the rights of citizens and society’s need for order can be resolved while preserving both liberty and safety.

  Covered by

  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights

  • · Know Your Rights, Lesson 2 · Freedom of speech: what's protected, and what isn't
  • · Know Your Rights, Lesson 5 · Speech and religion at school, and online
  • · Know Your Rights, Lesson 7 · Police stops, reasonable suspicion, and your privacy

  Note: When government may constitutionally limit rights, and why — time-place-manner, incitement, school speech, reasonable suspicion — is precisely the standard's conflict between liberty and the need for order.

• SS.C.14

  Covered

  Apply the concepts of legal precedent through past and present landmark Supreme Court cases, interpretations of the U.S. Constitution by the Supreme Court and the impact of these decisions on American society.

  Covered by

  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights
  • The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch
  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works

  • · Know Your Rights, Lessons 2-5 · speech, religion, press, assembly, including at school and online
  • · Know Your Rights, Lessons 6-8 · the 4th Amendment: searches, stops, and your digital life
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 5 · Writing the opinion: majority, concurrence, dissent, and precedent
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 4 · The courts and judicial review (Marbury v. Madison)

  Note: Legal precedent is taught as a rule the student can apply — the landmark Supreme Court cases, how precedent works and expands, and judicial review as the Court's power to interpret the Constitution.

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 West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness mathematics standard.
• Science — considered, deferred, not claimed this pass. West Virginia's science standards (WVBE Policy 2520.3C, adopted 2021) are NGSS-derived, so the catalog's one honest science idea — resource availability and climate shaping human activity (the substance of NGSS HS-ESS3-1) — would in principle map to a West Virginia science code. But the West Virginia-hosted and regulatory copies we could retrieve are image-only scans with no extractable, byte-faithful text, and our rule is verbatim-or-nothing. We will not alias the shared NGSS file to a West Virginia code we could not confirm against West Virginia's own printed wording, nor transcribe from a scan we cannot read exactly. Science is deferred until that verbatim text is in hand.
• West Virginia's own state structure is taught more fully than any one Civics standard names. West Virginia Civics teaches the state's singular origin (the only state formed by breaking away from another, its pro-Union western counties splitting from Virginia in 1863) and its Constitution of 1872, the plural executive with no Lieutenant Governor (the Senate President succeeds the Governor) and its weak veto, the 100-Delegate/34-Senator part-time Legislature and its 60-day session, the 2015 switch to nonpartisan judicial elections and the 2022 Intermediate Court of Appeals, the absence of any statewide citizen initiative, and the 55 counties — all from West Virginia's own sources. SS.C.20 (state and local government) and SS.C.13 (state judicial systems) host most of it, but the WVCCRS Civics standards are U.S.-system concept statements, not a West-Virginia-government checklist, so West Virginia's origin story, its plural executive, and its recent court changes have no code of their own.
• The Civics standards on parties, interest groups, and world affairs. Standards the catalog's civics does not genuinely teach are not claimed: SS.C.4 (collaboratively build a model to defend the American Republic — a classroom performance task), SS.C.16 (the evolution and function of the two-party system), SS.C.18 (the impact of special interest groups on public policy), and SS.C.21 (cooperation, competition, and conflict among nations — the United Nations, international treaties, terrorism). The catalog's civics is domestic structure, rights, and participation, so these are left unclaimed.
• Personal Finance — this rejection has been superseded, and its codes no longer mean what it said. Until 2026-08-28 this entry said West Virginia's Civics course carried a full Personal Finance strand at SS.C.30-39 and that the catalog met none of it. Both halves needed correcting. On the codes: under W. Va. 126CSR44D as filed July 8, 2024 and effective July 1, 2025, the Civics course runs SS.C.1 through SS.C.37 only, SS.C.38 and SS.C.39 do not exist, SS.C.30 and SS.C.31 are now ECONOMICS standards and SS.C.32-37 are GEOGRAPHY, and the ten personal-finance standards were moved to Appendix A of the rule and renumbered 1 through 10 with no code prefix. A rejection filed against SS.C.30 today would point at a standard about business climate, not about money management. On the substance: the catalog now teaches one personal-finance course, MONEY-01, and two Appendix A items are claimed above as partials, item 7 through the annual percentage rate and item 8 on its consumer-rights half, each with its gap named. The other six are still not claimed and the reasons are specific. Items 1 through 4 are postsecondary cost, income and lifestyle against education, career expectations, and workforce preparedness including resumes and mock interviews; item 5 is bankruptcy; item 6 was added as a narrow partial on 2026-08-29 and is dealt with on its own entry; item 5 is bankruptcy; the rest are completing income tax forms; item 9 is banking services and account fees; item 10 is investing and insurance. None of that is in this catalog, and MONEY-01 states in three separate lessons that it gives no financial advice, so a budgeting or investing claim would misdescribe it. TWO THINGS THIS PASS COULD NOT SETTLE, recorded rather than assumed: the superseded 2016 text of SS.C.30-39 could not be obtained from West Virginia's own publisher, so nothing is transcribed under those retired codes; and whether the SS.C civics and economics codes claimed elsewhere in this file also moved in the 2025 amendment has not been re-verified and is filed as a research check. UPDATED 2026-08-29: this entry's own claim that SS.C.38 does not exist has now been verified against a fresh fetch of the rule, and the contradiction it had with the Civics framework (which carried a claimed SS.C.38 entry) is resolved in this rule's favour. That claim moved to Appendix A item 9, which is where its text is actually printed. The research check on the OTHER SS.C codes stays open and is, if anything, more warranted: the same fetch shows the current SS.C.28 carrying the supply-and-demand text this file files under SS.C.25.
• Personal Finance (SS.C.30-39) — three of ten, and one claim moved to a code that exists. This entry used to read that the catalog taught none of West Virginia's Personal Finance strand. That is no longer true and the correction is recorded here rather than deleted, so a teacher can see exactly what changed and when. Personal finance now lives in Appendix A of Policy 2520.4, numbered 1 through 10; two of those ten are claimed above. SUPERSEDED AGAIN ON 2026-08-28, when MONEY-04 shipped, and both claimed items moved: Appendix A item 7 (consumer debt) was previously claimed on the annual-percentage-rate comparison method alone and now also carries pay-day loans and rent-to-own, each read from a state statute that governs it, though home loans and credit card debt remain outside it; and Appendix A item 8 (the savvy consumer) moved from partial to FULL, because the identify-and-avoid-fraudulent-practices and guard-against-identity-theft halves this catalog genuinely did not teach are now taught from 12 CFR part 1005 and from 15 U.S.C. 1681c-1 and 1681c-2. The other eight Appendix A items remain unclaimed and are named so the gap stays visible: the cost of postsecondary education, income and lifestyle against education and aid decisions, careers and lifelong earning potential, workforce preparedness, the causes of bankruptcy, completing federal and state income tax forms, banking services, and investing and insurance. Their verbatim text has not been transcribed here, so none of them carries a code entry, per fetch-or-do-not-cite. Later courses in the same series are planned to reach several of them; none is claimed before it is taught. SUPERSEDED A THIRD TIME ON 2026-08-29, and this one is a correction to our own record rather than to the catalog. Banking services, named just above as unclaimed, WAS claimed on 2026-08-28: MONEY-02 reached it, but the claim was filed in the Civics framework under SS.C.38, a code the current rule does not contain, which left this file asserting in one place that SS.C.38 does not exist and asserting in another that the catalog meets it. Policy 2520.4 was re-fetched from the Word version the WVBE policy viewer serves, since the PDF is a scan with no text layer. It contains thirty-seven SS.C codes and stops, and it prints the banking-services standard as Appendix A item 9. The claim has been moved to that locator unchanged, so three of the ten Appendix A items are now claimed (7 partial, 8 full, 9 partial) and seven are not: postsecondary cost, income and lifestyle, careers, workforce preparedness, bankruptcy, income tax forms, and investing and insurance.
• Geography (SS.C.40-43) — checked, thin overlap, not claimed. The Civics course's Geography strand (census and demographic analysis, geopolitical research, sustainable development, and geographic information systems) is human-environment and spatial geography. The catalog's growing-belts, resource-map, and climate content is geographic in flavor, but its overlap with these specific standards is adjacency-level at best; where that content maps squarely — how trade and commodities distribute wealth and shape economies — it is claimed under the Economics standards instead, not padded into Geography.
• The remaining Economics standards (SS.C.23, 24, 27, 28, 29). Beyond SS.C.25 (supply and demand affecting price) and SS.C.26 (the role of government in a free market), the Economics strand's other standards — opportunity cost and scarcity, allocating the factors of production, the household/business/government circular flow, local-to-global business climate, and the historical evolution of currency — are not the substance of this catalog's commodity history, so they are left unclaimed rather than stretched.
• The ELA grades 9, 10, and 12 standards, and the grade-11 standards outside the reading/writing/research claims above. West Virginia's ELA standards run across four grade bands (ELA.9, ELA.10, ELA.11, ELA.12). We claim only the grade-11 informational-reading, argument-writing, and research standards the catalog's media-literacy and source-evaluation teaching genuinely meets. The literature strands, the language and speaking/listening strands, and the near-identical standards in the other grade bands are not separately claimed, to avoid mapping the same teaching against four grades' worth of duplicate codes.
• The AI-literacy ladder, the language courses, and Learning How to Learn — deferred, not denied. West Virginia's closest frameworks for these (its Technology and Computer Science standards, WVBE Policy 2520.14, and its world-languages standards) have not been fetched and verified yet. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no West Virginia claims this pass.