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Designed for high school. Below is every Virginiastandard these courses cover: the exact code, the standard's own words, and the lesson that covers it. Where we only cover part of a standard, it says so, and says which part.

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  • We mapped this ourselves. This alignment was done by Learn.WitUS against the published standards. It has not been reviewed, endorsed, or approved by Virginia's education authority or by anyone else.
  • Every code was fetched, then transcribed word for word. Each framework below shows the date its codes and text were retrieved from the publisher.
  • Standards get revised.A code can be renumbered or its wording changed without notice, and some states publish more than one live edition of the same document. Confirm anything you file against your own jurisdiction's current requirements, using the source links below.
  • We would rather claim less. Where the courses only partly cover a standard, this page says partially covered and explains the gap. Standards we considered and could not honestly claim are listed at the bottom, with the reasons.

Virginia · Social Studies

Virginia and United States Government — 2023 History and Social Science Standards of Learning

2023 · Board-approved April 20, 2023 (Grade 12 Government) · Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) / Virginia Board of Education · retrieved 2026-07-18

Virginia's Grade 12 civics anchor course, defining the knowledge that enables citizens to participate in civic and economic life. The 2023 SOL use the GOVT.* prefix across a content-neutral Skills strand and GOVT.1-GOVT.14. The course is overwhelmingly about the federal system, but GOVT.10 names Virginia's own state and local government 'as described in the Constitution of Virginia', so the Virginia flagship course is mapped there (full). Sub-standards are cited by their printed letter (GOVT.10a); where a standard's clause is too short to stand alone, the stem is cited instead.

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  • GOVT.3f

    Covered
    describing how the Bill of Rights affirms natural rights as something that precedes politics

    Covered by

    • · The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights, Lesson 1 · What is the Bill of Rights?
    • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 8 · The Bill of Rights (Amendments I to X)

    Note: The Bill of Rights as a document and what it protects — taught both in the general rights course and the constitution course.

  • GOVT.4e

    Covered
    evaluating how the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights protect freedoms and limit government

    Covered by

    • · 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?
    • · 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: Both halves: how the Constitution limits government (separation of powers, checks and balances) and how the Bill of Rights protects freedoms — including when government may and may not constitutionally limit a right.

  • GOVT.11b

    Covered
    explaining the purpose of the Bill of Rights, with emphasis on First Amendment freedoms

    Covered by

    • · 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

    Note: The Bill of Rights and the First Amendment freedoms — speech, religion, press, assembly — taught as landmark cases a student can apply (Tinker, Brandenburg), including at school and online.

  • GOVT.11e

    Covered
    evaluating the balance between individual liberties and the public interest

    Covered by

    • · 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 a right, and why — time-place-manner, incitement, school speech, reasonable suspicion — is exactly this balance.

  • GOVT.11c

    Partially covered
    analyzing the rights of the accused and due process of law expressed in the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendments

    Covered by

    • · 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

    What we do and don't cover: Partial: the Fourth Amendment (searches, stops, and your digital life — Mapp, Terry, T.L.O., Riley, Carpenter) and the limits on rights are taught as applicable rules; a full rights-of-the-accused and due-process treatment is not.

  • GOVT.11f

    Partially covered
    examining how civil liberties and civil rights are protected under the law

    Covered by

    • · 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

    What we do and don't cover: Partial: how liberties are protected is taught through the landmark rights cases and the limits doctrine; a systematic civil-liberties-versus-civil-rights framework is not.

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 Virginia mathematics standard.
  • Virginia's English and Science SOL — deferred, not denied. Virginia writes its own English SOL and its own Science SOL (Virginia is NOT an NGSS state). Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite: the Virginia DOE's standards portal refused our tooling this pass, so these courses carry no Virginia claims yet. The BVC rhetoric, media-literacy, and research-project work that maps to them elsewhere is real; it is the Virginia text we have not yet retrieved from an acceptable source. (The GOVT Skills strand does give our source-evaluation and argument work a genuine home — Skills GOVT c and j above.)
  • The civic-identity, comparative-systems, and money-in-politics objectives we do not teach. GOVT.2b-f and GOVT.4a-d (comparing forms of government; Tocqueville's five values; the mottos 'E Pluribus Unum' and 'In God We Trust'; the American Creed) ask for civic-identity content the catalog does not teach. GOVT.3a (The Federalist Papers #10 and #51), GOVT.1d (George Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights, Jefferson's Statute for Religious Freedom, Madison's role in the Bill of Rights), GOVT.6a-b/6f (suffrage expansion, campaign finance, gerrymandering), GOVT.9d (originalism vs. judicial activism), GOVT.10e (partisan vs. nonpartisan offices), GOVT.13b/13d (Smith/Marx/Keynes/Hayek/Friedman/Sowell; the Bill of Rights vs. the Communist Manifesto), and GOVT.14b/14d-f (public goods, taxation, fiscal and monetary policy) are named but not genuinely taught, so we do not claim them.
  • GOVT.3g (the amendment process) — a real match we cannot cite as printed. GOVT.3g, 'explaining the amendment process', is a genuine match — the catalog teaches both Article V and Virginia's two-sessions-plus-a-referendum path. But the printed clause is under the ~40-character floor the isolation suite enforces to reject paraphrases, and we will not pad it. Virginia's amendment path is instead cited where it has longer standard text to attach to (GOVT.10b, GOVT.1c). The gap is in the citeable grain, not the lesson.

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