Louisiana standards alignment

• C.9.j

  Covered

  Explain the historical connections between Civil Law, the Napoleonic Code, and Louisiana's system of laws.

  Covered by

  • Louisiana Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Louisiana Civics, Lesson 1 · Louisiana's defining difference: a civil-law state

  Note: This is Louisiana Civics, Lesson 1 exactly: Louisiana as the only civil-law state, its Civil Code descended from the French and Spanish (Napoleonic) tradition, and the distinctive legal vocabulary (parishes, usufruct, forced heirship) that follows from it.

• C.11.k

  Covered

  Describe local and parish governments in Louisiana, including police juries and home rule charters.

  Covered by

  • Louisiana Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Louisiana Civics, Lesson 5 · Parishes: Louisiana's counties by another name
  • · Louisiana Civics, Lesson 6 · Judges, voting, and how to take part

  Note: This is Louisiana Civics, Lesson 5 exactly: Louisiana's 64 parishes (not counties), the traditional Police Jury and the parish-president-and-council home-rule-charter alternative, and consolidated city-parish governments such as New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

• C.9.i

  Partially covered

  Analyze continuity and change in the Louisiana State Constitution over time, and compare and contrast the Louisiana State Constitutions and the U.S. Constitution.

  Covered by

  • Louisiana Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Louisiana Civics, Lesson 2 · The Constitution of 1974 and the three branches
  • · Louisiana Civics, Lesson 4 · How a bill becomes a Louisiana law

  What we do and don't cover: This is one of Louisiana's own-government expectations, and the flagship lands on it: the Constitution of 1974 (Louisiana's eleventh), its three branches and plural executive, and how Louisiana amends its constitution. Partial because a systematic comparison across all of Louisiana's earlier constitutions and clause-by-clause against the U.S. Constitution is not the lesson's aim.

• C.11.e

  Partially covered

  Explain election processes at the local, state, and federal levels, including qualifications and procedures for voting; qualifications and terms for offices; the primary system; public hearings and forums; petition, initiative, referendum, and recall; and amendments related to elections and voting.

  Covered by

  • Voting & Elections 101
  • Louisiana 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
  • · Louisiana Civics, Lesson 3 · Louisiana's 'jungle primary' (the open primary)
  • · Louisiana Civics, Lesson 4 · How a bill becomes a Louisiana law
  • · Louisiana Civics, Lesson 6 · Judges, voting, and how to take part

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: national and state election procedures are taught (registration through counting), and Louisiana's own primary is worked in depth — the 'jungle primary,' Louisiana's amendment-only path with no citizen initiative, and how Louisiana elects its judges and administers voting. The general petition/initiative/referendum/recall menu is taught as Louisiana's version (which lacks the initiative), not comparatively across states.

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 Louisiana mathematics standard (the Louisiana Student Standards for Mathematics, Louisiana's own since it replaced Common Core).
• English Language Arts — deferred, and deliberately NOT aliased. Louisiana replaced Common Core with its own Louisiana Student Standards for ELA. Those standards may be Common-Core-derived, but our rule is compare-before-aliasing: we have not fetched and compared the Louisiana ELA document this pass, so we do NOT alias Louisiana onto the shared Common Core file, and we make no Louisiana ELA claim yet. The catalog's media-literacy, rhetoric, and argument-writing teaching would be the candidates when it is fetched.
• Science — deferred, and deliberately NOT aliased. Louisiana's science is Louisiana's own. Louisiana's science standards (the 2017 Louisiana Student Standards for Science) are NGSS-BASED, but they are Louisiana's own document with Louisiana's own adoption. Blind-aliasing Louisiana onto our shared NGSS file without confirming the codes and text match would violate the rule, so we have not done it; the two Earth-science claims used elsewhere would be the candidates once the Louisiana document is fetched and compared.
• Civics expectations we checked and do NOT claim. C.8.b/c/e/f (comparing systems of government, the Enlightenment philosophers, ratification debates, and natural-rights theory), C.9.d (the executive branch's Cabinet, executive orders, and the 'bully pulpit'), C.9.g/h (constructionist interpretation by name; how governments raise and allocate revenue), C.10.d (equal protection and due process doctrine), C.11.c/g/h/i/j (political parties and interest groups; gerrymandering and turnout; the media's effect on politics — our media-literacy work is consumer protection, not political-media analysis; Louisiana's congressional redistricting), C.12.a/c/e (the policy-fields survey; U.S. interactions with other nations; post-WWII international law), C.13.a/c/e/f (Adam Smith and the invisible hand; government-regulation perspectives; market structures and factors of production), and all of C.14 (personal financial literacy) are not genuinely taught by these courses, so we do not claim them.