Florida standards alignment

• SS.912.CG.2.2

  Covered

  Explain the importance of political and civic participation to the success of the United States' constitutional republic.

  Covered by

  • How to Help a Campaign: A Practical, Non-Partisan Guide
  • US, State & Local Government: Who Does What
  • Florida Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · How to Help a Campaign · the whole course (volunteering, donating, canvassing, with the legal guardrails)
  • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 8 · Where to show up and be heard, at every level
  • · Florida Civics, Lesson 9 · Get involved where you live in Florida

• SS.912.CG.2.7

  Covered

  Analyze the impact of civic engagement as a means of preserving or reforming institutions.

  Covered by

  • How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal): From Idea to Public Law
  • Florida Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • How to Help a Campaign: A Practical, Non-Partisan Guide

  • · How a Bill Becomes Law, Lesson 8 · Tracking a bill and making your voice heard
  • · Florida Civics, Lesson 9 · Get involved where you live in Florida
  • · How to Help a Campaign, Lesson 10 · Helping ballot measures and local causes

  Note: Civic engagement is taught as practice: tracking a live bill, helping ballot measures and local causes, and showing up to reform the institutions you live under.

• SS.912.CG.2.9

  Partially covered

  Explain the process and procedures of elections at the state and national levels.

  Covered by

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

  • · Florida Civics, Lesson 7 · Elections in Florida: closed primaries, voter ID, and recently tightened mail voting
  • · Florida Civics, Lesson 8 · The citizen initiative: putting an amendment on the ballot yourself
  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: National election procedures are taught end to end (registration, primaries, voting methods, counting, the Electoral College) and Florida's own procedures are taught as Florida's (closed primaries, voter ID, the SB 90/SB 524 mail-ballot rules, the 29-day deadline). What is not attempted is a comprehensive survey of every other state's procedures.

• SS.912.CG.3.10

  Partially covered

  Analyze the levels and responsibilities of state and federal courts.

  Covered by

  • Florida Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch

  • · Florida Civics, Lesson 4 · Florida's courts: merit selection + retention for the top courts
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 1 · The federal judiciary: from district courts to the Supreme Court
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 7 · Checks on the Court

  What we do and don't cover: The federal court system and Florida's own courts are both taught: Florida's split selection — merit selection plus retention for the appellate courts, nonpartisan elections for the trial courts. A full analysis of every level of both systems is not attempted.

• SS.912.CG.3.15

  Partially covered

  Explain how citizens are affected by the local, state and national governments.

  Covered by

  • Florida Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • US, State & Local Government: Who Does What
  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works

  • · Florida Civics, Lesson 1 · Florida's constitution: the 1968 rewrite and its many amendment paths
  • · Florida Civics, Lesson 2 · The Constitution Revision Commission: Florida's once-in-20-years wildcard
  • · Florida Civics, Lesson 3 · The three branches, and Florida's plural executive (Governor + Cabinet)
  • · Florida Civics, Lesson 5 · How a bill becomes a Florida law
  • · Florida Civics, Lesson 6 · Local government in Florida: 67 counties, charter vs. non-charter, and NO townships
  • · Florida Civics, Lesson 9 · Get involved where you live in Florida
  • · 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
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 1 · Purpose of government and the three branches

  What we do and don't cover: This is the flagship's home in the US Government course: Florida's own state structure (the 1968 constitution, the plural executive of Governor plus Cabinet, the CRC and 60% amendment rule) and Florida local government (67 counties, charter vs. non-charter, no townships) are taught in depth, alongside the federal branches. But the standard asks how citizens are affected across all three levels systematically, which is not fully assembled here.

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 Florida B.E.S.T. mathematics standard and no NGSSS mathematics standard.
• Science — Florida is NOT an NGSS state (NGSSS ≠ NGSS), and we did not fetch its science standards. Despite the similar name, the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards are Florida's own system, not the Next Generation Science Standards. Florida's science standards (SC.912) are bespoke. This catalog has no laboratory work, and we did not fetch the Florida science standards this pass, so — by our fetch-or-don't-cite rule — Florida gets no science claim.
• Grade 7 Civics (SS.7.CG) — where the flagship's fullest home lives, not yet fetched. Florida concentrates its dedicated state-and-local civics instruction in the middle-school Grade 7 Civics course (SS.7.CG), which culminates in the statewide Civic Literacy assessment. That is the natural 1:1 home for Florida Civics. We mapped the flagship into the high-school Civics & Government benchmarks that name state and local government (CG.3.15, CG.3.10, CG.2.9) this pass, honestly as partial, and defer SS.7.CG to a later pass rather than cite standards we have not read.
• Florida's distinctive direct democracy has no benchmark of its own. Central flagship lessons — the once-every-20-years Constitution Revision Commission, the citizen-initiative petition, and the 60% supermajority any amendment needs — are what make Florida's constitution unusual. But the SS.912.CG benchmarks are federal-focused and contain no state-constitution-amendment or initiative/referendum benchmark, so those lessons map only obliquely (via CG.2.7, civic engagement). The gap is in the standards, not the lessons.
• Most of the Civics & Government federal-heavy standards. CG.1.1-1.3 (founding philosophy, Enlightenment, and the Federalist Papers as named content), CG.2.1 (constitutional provisions on citizenship), CG.2.4-2.6 (balancing rights, government restrictions, and the expansion of civil rights — touched only through history), CG.2.8/2.10/2.12/2.13 (parties, interest groups, media, and voter turnout as political-science content — our media literacy is consumer protection, not political-media analysis), CG.3.1 (ideologies that conflict with democracy), CG.3.4-3.5 (the executive branch and regulatory agencies), CG.3.9/3.13/3.14 (judges vs. other officials, interstate disputes, judicial decision-making), and CG.4.x (U.S. foreign policy) — the courses do not genuinely teach these, so we do not claim them.
• The landmark-cases overlap is thin, and we say so. CG.3.11 enumerates Marbury, McCulloch, Dred Scott, Plessy, Brown, Gideon, Miranda, Korematsu, Mapp, In re Gault, U.S. v. Nixon, Bakke, Hazelwood, and Heller. Our Know Your Rights course teaches Tinker, Brandenburg, Mapp, Terry, T.L.O., Riley, and Carpenter as applicable rules — Mapp is the only direct overlap. We claim the case-application skill as partial and do not pretend to cover this benchmark's specific case list.
• The African American History strand is claimed only where the catalog genuinely teaches it. SS.912.AA is a 100+ benchmark strand spanning African kingdoms and the origins of slavery, the full arc of enslavement and resistance, Reconstruction, and the entire civil-rights and post-1968 story. We claim four benchmarks — the triangular/trans-Atlantic slave trade (AA.1.3), cash crops and slavery (AA.2.13, partial), the Great Migration (AA.3.9), and the Harlem Renaissance (AA.3.10, partial) — because the catalog's commodity, slave-trade, and Great Migration content genuinely covers them. The rest of the strand is not taught here, and we do not stretch to claim it.
• The rest of World History, American History, Geography, and Economics we checked. We read the high-school benchmarks of each strand and claim only what the catalog genuinely teaches. The surveys of the ancient and classical world, the World Wars, the American political eras, monetary and fiscal policy, market structures, and the many tool-and-skill benchmarks not listed above are not claimed. The reject list is the evidence the map was not padded.
• B.E.S.T. ELA grades 6-9 and 11-12. We mapped Grade 10 (ELA.10) as the representative high-school grade; grades 6-9 and 11-12 carry parallel reading, rhetoric, and communication benchmarks we did not separately transcribe. And the B.E.S.T. ELA composition benchmarks are met only by the Coffee project — one optional project in one episode — so the argument and research standards are claimed as partial, never a full writing programme.