Alabama standards alignment

• USG.5

  Partially covered

  Compare specific functions, organizations, and purposes of local and state governments, including implementing fiscal and monetary policies, ensuring personal security, and regulating transportation.

  Covered by

  • Alabama Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • US, State & Local Government: Who Does What

  • · Alabama Civics, Lesson 1 · The longest constitution in the world (and the 2022 recompile)
  • · Alabama Civics, Lesson 2 · Weak home rule and Alabama's large plural executive
  • · Alabama Civics, Lesson 3 · The Legislature and Alabama's partisan-elected judiciary
  • · Alabama Civics, Lesson 4 · Local government and how to take part
  • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 5 · What LOCAL government handles (and why it VARIES)
  • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 7 · The governments you forget: special districts & boards

  What we do and don't cover: This is Alabama's own-government standard, and it is where the Alabama flagship lands 1:1: the 1901 constitution the standard names by title, weak home rule, the large plural executive, the Legislature, the partisan-elected judiciary, Alabama's lawmaking and amendment path, and its 67 counties. Partial because the standard's named functions (fiscal and monetary policy, ensuring personal security, regulating transportation) and the influence of special-interest groups are not the lessons' focus.

• USG.7

  Partially covered

  Describe the process of local, state, and national elections, including the organization, role, and constituency of political parties.

  Covered by

  • Voting & Elections 101
  • Alabama Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lessons 1-3 · registration, primaries and caucuses, how you vote
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 7 · Counting, canvassing, and certifying the vote
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 8 · Verify your own registration and rules
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 4 · The Electoral College: how it works
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 5 · Why the Electoral College exists
  • · Alabama Civics, Lesson 4 · Local government and how to take part

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: national and state election procedures are taught thoroughly (registration through counting and certifying, the Electoral College) with an Alabama-specific lesson on photo ID, absentee rules, and voting on many amendments. The organization, role, and constituency of political PARTIES the standard names is not taught.

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 Alabama mathematics standard (the 2019 Alabama Course of Study: Mathematics, Alabama's own, not Common Core).
• English Language Arts — deferred, not denied. Alabama writes its own ELA standards (the 2021 Alabama Course of Study: English Language Arts, adopted after Alabama left Common Core). This catalog's media-literacy, rhetoric, argument-writing, and source-evaluation teaching would map to Alabama ELA — but our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, and that document has not been retrieved and transcribed this pass, so we make no Alabama ELA claim yet.
• Science — deferred, not denied. Alabama is NOT an NGSS state. Alabama's science standards are the 2015 Alabama Course of Study: Science, built from the National Research Council Framework with Alabama's own codes — NOT the Next Generation Science Standards. We did not assume otherwise. That document has not been fetched and transcribed this pass, so we make no Alabama science claim; when it is, the two Earth-science claims used elsewhere (resources, hazards, and climate shaping human activity) would be the candidates.
• United States Government standards we checked and do NOT claim. USG.1 (historical and philosophical origins — the Magna Carta, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, and comparing limited and unlimited governments), USG.8 (special-interest groups, PACs, and Buckley v. Valeo), USG.9 (the media's impact on the political and election process — our media-literacy work is consumer protection, not political-media analysis), and USG.10 (the role of political parties) are not genuinely taught by these courses, so we do not claim them.
• Economics standards we checked and do NOT claim. ECON.1 and ECON.2 (scarcity, opportunity cost, and rational decision making as named concepts), ECON.5 (standard of living and productivity), ECON.7 (the organization and role of business, firm types, and market structures), ECON.9 (GDP, CPI, inflation, and unemployment measurement), ECON.10 (the Federal Reserve and monetary policy), and ECON.11 (fiscal policy, deficits, and the national debt) are financial- and macro-economics content this catalog does not teach.
• Health and Physical Education — out of scope for Social Studies this pass. Alabama publishes its own Health Education and Physical Education courses of study. This catalog's dental-health, body-data, and sport-knowledge courses could map to them, but those documents were not fetched this pass; per fetch-or-don't-cite we make no Alabama health or PE claim yet.