Idaho standards alignment

• 9-12.GOV.45

  Covered

  Explain the organization and powers of state and local government as described in the Constitution of the State of Idaho by analyzing legislative, executive, and judicial branches.

  Covered by

  • Idaho Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Idaho Civics, Lesson 1 · Idaho's constitution: the 1889 rulebook and direct democracy
  • · Idaho Civics, Lesson 7 · Direct democracy in Idaho: initiative, referendum, recall
  • · Idaho Civics, Lesson 2 · The three branches and Idaho's plural executive
  • · Idaho Civics, Lesson 3 · Idaho's courts: nonpartisan election, and filling a midterm vacancy
  • · Idaho Civics, Lesson 5 · Local government in Idaho: 44 counties, cities, special districts, no townships
  • · Idaho Civics, Lesson 8 · Get involved where you live in Idaho (county commission and city council)

  Note: The flagship's primary home: Idaho's own government under the Constitution of the State of Idaho (1889) — the part-time citizen Legislature (35 districts, one senator and two representatives each), the plural executive (a separately elected Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Controller, Treasurer, Attorney General, and Superintendent of Public Instruction), and the nonpartisan-election judiciary (the five-justice Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals, and the district courts) — is taught in depth, along with Idaho's counties, cities, and special districts.

• 9-12.GOV.47

  Covered

  Understand the structure, powers, and lawmaking process of local government (county, city, special district) by analyzing the relationships between state and local governments and the roles of regional authorities, governing boards, and commissions.

  Covered by

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

  • · Idaho Civics, Lesson 5 · Local government in Idaho: 44 counties, cities, special districts, no townships
  • · Idaho Civics, Lesson 8 · Get involved where you live in Idaho (county commission and city council)
  • · 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

  Note: Near-1:1: Idaho's 44 counties (each under a three-member Board of County Commissioners), cities, and special districts — the standard's own three categories — are each taught, along with how those bodies make local rules and take part.

• 9-12.GOV.54

  Covered

  Explain the role of state governments in administering elections and compare different state’s voting rules and elections laws.

  Covered by

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

  • · Idaho Civics, Lesson 6 · Elections in Idaho: Election Day registration and the closed primary
  • · 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

  Note: Idaho's administration of its own elections — Election Day registration, the closed party primary, and the county-clerk machinery — is taught as Idaho's, and the general registration/primary/count mechanics and the verify-your-own-registration walkthrough carry the comparative piece.

• 9-12.GOV.46

  Covered

  Compare the lawmaking process at the national, state, and local level.

  Covered by

  • How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal): From Idea to Public Law
  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works
  • Idaho Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • US, State & Local Government: Who Does What

  • · How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal) · the whole course, introduction to public law
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 3 · How a bill becomes a law
  • · Idaho Civics, Lesson 4 · How a bill becomes an Idaho law (and how voters do it directly)
  • · 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

  Note: All three levels the standard names are taught: the federal lawmaking process end to end, how a bill becomes an Idaho law in the Legislature (with the citizen initiative as the second route), and how local bodies make rules.

• 9-12.GOV.48

  Covered

  Compare partisan and non-partisan offices and elections.

  Covered by

  • Idaho Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Idaho Civics, Lesson 3 · Idaho's courts: nonpartisan election, and filling a midterm vacancy
  • · Idaho Civics, Lesson 6 · Elections in Idaho: Election Day registration and the closed primary

  Note: Idaho's contrast is taught directly: its judges are chosen in nonpartisan elections, while its legislative and executive offices are filled through partisan elections (the closed party primary).

• 9-12.GOV.21

  Partially covered

  Identify and be able to engage with key officials, both elected and appointed, in the legislative, executive, and judicial branches at the federal, state, and local levels.

  Covered by

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

  • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 8 · Where to show up and be heard, at every level
  • · Idaho Civics, Lesson 8 · Get involved where you live in Idaho
  • · How a Bill Becomes Law, Lesson 8 · Tracking a bill and making your voice heard

  What we do and don't cover: Where and how to be heard at every level, tracking a live bill, and getting involved where you live in Idaho are taught as practice; a systematic map of every key elected and appointed official is not, so this is 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 — Common Core adopted as the Idaho Core: nothing claimed. Idaho adopted the Common Core State Standards for mathematics as the Idaho Core, but this catalog does no mathematics instruction, so it meets no Idaho mathematics standard.
• Science — Idaho's OWN 2018 standards (revised NGSS/climate language): deferred, not aliased. Idaho did not adopt the Next Generation Science Standards verbatim. During its 2016-2018 review, Idaho notably revised and removed climate-change and human-impact language from the NGSS-derived standards, so Idaho's HS Earth and Space Science standards are its own, not a byte-for-byte NGSS republication. Our rule is verbatim-or-nothing, so — unlike NGSS-verbatim states, which reuse the shared NGSS mapping — we do NOT alias the shared NGSS framework here and DEFER Idaho's science standards rather than cite text we have not confirmed matches. The catalog's climate/resource content (resources, hazards, and climate shaping human activity) would map to Idaho's Earth and Space Science standards; that is deferred, not denied.
• English/Language Arts — Idaho reorganized away from Common Core, so NOT aliased. Idaho adopted the Common Core for ELA as the Idaho Core, but the current (January 3, 2022) Idaho Content Standards for English Language Arts/Literacy reorganized the standards entirely: the Common Core RH/RI/WHST strands and codes no longer exist, and grades 11/12 are organized under Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Development, Research, Writing, Oral and Digital Communications, and Grammar and Conventions strands with Idaho's own codes. Aliasing the shared Common Core ELA framework would misrepresent Idaho's standards as codes it no longer uses, so we transcribe Idaho's own verbatim literacy standards in the id-literacy framework above.
• Idaho's own state structure is taught more fully than any one code captures. Idaho Civics teaches the 1889 Constitution, the separately elected plural executive (Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Controller, Treasurer, Attorney General, and Superintendent of Public Instruction), the nonpartisan-election judiciary and its Idaho Judicial Council vacancy process, the 35-district citizen Legislature, and the initiative, referendum, and recall reserved to the people — from Idaho's own sources. 9-12.GOV.45 (state and local government per the Idaho Constitution) hosts most of it, but Idaho's specific direct-democracy tools and judicial-selection design have no code of their own beyond that state-government benchmark.
• Tribal governments and dual citizenship of American Indians (9-12.GOV.20, 9-12.GOV.44). Idaho's American Government course carries a dedicated benchmark on the dual citizenship of American Indians (9-12.GOV.20) and on tribal sovereignty and the federal trust responsibility with emphasis on Idaho's federally recognized tribes (9-12.GOV.44). Idaho Civics teaches Idaho's state and local structure but not tribal government, so these are not claimed. The gap is in the course, not the standards.
• The Political Economy cluster (9-12.GOV.26-29) and the Economics course (9-12.EC.1-19). Idaho's American Government course includes a Political Economy cluster (free enterprise, market rules, taxation, and the Federal Reserve's monetary policy) and a separate high-school Economics course (9-12.EC.*). This catalog's economics content is world-history commodity economics (value chains, trade barriers, market vs. traditional economies) rather than U.S. political economy, public finance, or personal finance, so we do not claim the Political Economy benchmarks or the Economics course.
• The political-science and history-of-government benchmarks we checked and rejected. 9-12.GOV.1 (Enlightenment thinkers and classical influences on the Founding), 9-12.GOV.2 (the Declaration and grievances as named content), 9-12.GOV.4 (the Constitutional Convention, Great Compromise, and ratification debate), 9-12.GOV.5 (the Federalist Papers Essays 10 and 51 and the Anti-Federalist Papers), 9-12.GOV.10 (democracy vs. republic), 9-12.GOV.11 (shared American values), 9-12.GOV.12 (the Declaration's definition of ideal government), 9-12.GOV.14 (comparing political ideologies), 9-12.GOV.15 (federal and state roles in the Civil Rights Movement), 9-12.GOV.25 (the 14th-Amendment case list — Plessy, Roe, Dobbs, Loving, Obergefell, Brown, etc.), 9-12.GOV.31 (the census, redistricting, and Baker v. Carr), 9-12.GOV.32 (legislative leadership positions), 9-12.GOV.36 (executive departments and the administrative state), 9-12.GOV.42 (judicial philosophies — originalism, textualism, activism), 9-12.GOV.53 (reapportionment and redistricting), and 9-12.GOV.56-59 (comparative political systems, U.S. foreign policy, and the international system) — the courses do not genuinely teach these, or teach them too thinly to claim, so we do not claim them.