North Carolina standards alignment

• CL.C&G.2.2

  Covered

  Explain how the principle of federalism impacts the actions of state and local government.

  Covered by

  • State vs Federal Power: How American Government Is Divided
  • North Carolina Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 1 · What is federalism, and why split power at all?
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 2 · Three kinds of power: enumerated, implied, reserved
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 3 · The enumerated powers: Article I, § 8 (the Necessary and Proper Clause)
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 6 · Concurrent powers: what both levels share
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 7 · McCulloch v. Maryland (1819): implied powers and supremacy
  • · North Carolina Civics, Lesson 5 · Local government: 100 counties, limited home rule, no townships
  • · North Carolina Civics, Lesson 8 · Get involved where you live in North Carolina

  Note: Federalism is taught in depth — why power is split, the enumerated/implied/reserved/concurrent taxonomy with McCulloch v. Maryland — and North Carolina's Dillon's-Rule limit on what its local governments may do is the state-and-local application named by the standard.

• CL.C&G.2.3

  Covered

  Differentiate between the types of local governments in order to understand the role, powers, and functions each plays within an intergovernmental system.

  Covered by

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

  • · 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
  • · North Carolina Civics, Lesson 5 · Local government: 100 counties, limited home rule, no townships
  • · North Carolina Civics, Lesson 8 · Get involved where you live in North Carolina

  Note: Both the general treatment (what local government handles, why it varies, the special districts people forget) and North Carolina's own map — 100 counties under Boards of Commissioners, municipalities, no townships, all under limited home rule.

• CL.C&G.1.1

  Partially covered

  Explain the influence of the founding principles on state and federal decisions using primary and secondary source documents.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • North Carolina Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 2-9 · the Constitution analyzed article by article
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 2 · The Preamble: who, and why
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 6 · Separation of powers and checks & balances
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 7 · Federalism: state and federal power
  • · North Carolina Civics, Lesson 1 · North Carolina's 1971 constitution, and no citizen initiative

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the founding principles are worked through the Constitution article by article (the Preamble's purposes, separation of powers) using the founding documents themselves, and North Carolina's own 1971 constitution is taught in the flagship. A systematic study of how those principles shaped specific state and federal decisions is not the frame.

• CL.C&G.2.1

  Partially covered

  Compare how national, state, and local governments maintain order, security, and protect individual rights.

  Covered by

  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works
  • North Carolina Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • US, State & Local Government: Who Does What
  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights

  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 1 · Purpose of government and the three branches
  • · North Carolina Civics, Lesson 2 · The three branches, and the Council of State
  • · 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
  • · North Carolina Civics, Lesson 5 · Local government: 100 counties, limited home rule, no townships
  • · North Carolina Civics, Lesson 8 · Get involved where you live in North Carolina
  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: all three levels are taught — the federal branches, North Carolina's own state executive (the Council of State, a plural elected executive) and General Assembly, what local government handles and why it varies, and North Carolina's counties and municipalities — plus rights protection through the landmark cases. A single side-by-side comparison of how each level 'maintains order and security' is not the frame.

• CL.C&G.3.7

  Partially covered

  Assess the effectiveness of the election process at the national, state, and local levels.

  Covered by

  • Voting & Elections 101
  • North Carolina 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
  • · North Carolina Civics, Lesson 6 · Elections in NC: early one-stop voting, no-excuse absentee, 25-day deadline
  • · North Carolina Civics, Lesson 7 · Photo voter ID: recently in effect after litigation

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: national election mechanics (registration through certification, the Electoral College) and North Carolina's own rules (one-stop early voting with same-day registration, no-excuse absentee, photo ID) are taught thoroughly; 'assessing effectiveness' is analysis the courses prompt but do not grade.

• CL.C&G.4.1

  Partially covered

  Differentiate the judicial systems of the United States and North Carolina in terms of structure, jurisdiction, and how each provides for equal protection.

  Covered by

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

  • · 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
  • · North Carolina Civics, Lesson 3 · North Carolina's courts: appellate judges elected in PARTISAN races

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: both systems' structure and selection are taught — the federal judiciary from district courts to the Supreme Court, and North Carolina's partisan-elected Supreme Court and Court of Appeals — but 'how each provides for equal protection' is not worked side by side.

• CL.C&G.4.2

  Partially covered

  Differentiate the structure and function of state and federal courts in order to understand the adversarial nature of each.

  Covered by

  • The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch
  • North Carolina Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • Jury Duty & the Courts (the citizen's side)

  • · 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
  • · North Carolina Civics, Lesson 3 · North Carolina's courts: appellate judges elected in PARTISAN races
  • · Jury Duty & the Courts · the whole course (the citizen's side of the court system)

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: federal and North Carolina court structure are taught, and jury service teaches the citizen's side of an adversarial system; the adversarial nature itself is illustrated through jury duty rather than compared state-to-federal.

• CL.C&G.4.3

  Partially covered

  Exemplify how the constitutions of the United States and North Carolina have been interpreted and applied since ratification.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch
  • North Carolina Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 2-9 · the Constitution analyzed article by article
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 9 · Changing the Constitution: Article V and key later amendments
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 5 · Writing the opinion: majority, concurrence, dissent, and precedent
  • · North Carolina Civics, Lesson 1 · North Carolina's 1971 constitution, and no citizen initiative

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the U.S. Constitution is worked article by article, with Article V and how precedent expands rights; North Carolina's 1971 constitution and its amendment path are taught in the flagship. Case-by-case interpretation 'since ratification' for North Carolina specifically is not.

• I.1.6 · Taking Informed Action

  Partially covered

  Organize and take individual or collaborative action in order to effect change and inform others.

  Covered by

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

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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: where and how to be heard at every level, tracking a live bill, and getting involved in North Carolina are taught as practice; the student's own action is prompted, not assessed. Cited at the sub-indicator (bullet) level.

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 North Carolina mathematics standard.
• North Carolina's ELA and Science standards — deferred, not denied. North Carolina writes its own 2017 English Language Arts SCOS (Common Core-derived, but with North Carolina's own text and numbering) and its own K-12 Science standards (North Carolina is NOT an NGSS state). Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite: NCDPI's own PDFs on files.nc.gov and dpi.nc.gov refused our tooling (HTTP 403) this pass, and we will not transcribe standard text from a non-authoritative third-party alignment document, so these courses carry no North Carolina claims yet. The BVC media-literacy, rhetoric, and research-project work that maps to them elsewhere is real; it is the North Carolina text we have not yet retrieved from an acceptable source.
• The flagship's most distinctive lesson — how a bill becomes a North Carolina law — has no home in these standards. North Carolina's Civic Literacy standards are thematic (founding principles, rights, the evolution of government); they contain NO lawmaking-process objective. So the North Carolina flagship's signature lesson — how a bill becomes a North Carolina law, including that the governor had no veto until 1997 (North Carolina was the last state to grant one) and that a veto is overridden by three-fifths, not two-thirds — has no North Carolina Civic Literacy standard to cite, and we do not stretch one to fit. The gap is in the standards, not the lesson.
• The Geography strand (CL.G.1.1–CL.G.1.3). The Civic Literacy Geography objectives are specific: how views on freedom and equality shape legislation on immigration, migration, and the environment (CL.G.1.1); the geopolitical and environmental factors affecting civic participation and voting by region (CL.G.1.2); and how the United States works with international governments on global environmental issues (CL.G.1.3). Our migration and climate content does not sit inside those policy frames, so we claim none of them.
• Comparative government and the political-process objectives we do not teach. CL.C&G.2.4 (comparing the U.S. federal government to various governments around the world) and CL.C&G.3.4 (comparing American citizenship to membership in other governments) ask for comparative-government work the catalog does not do. CL.C&G.3.5 (how the two-party system shaped the political landscape) and CL.C&G.3.6 (the relationship between the media and government) are likewise not taught — our media-literacy work is consumer protection, not political-media analysis, the same gap flagged for Arizona's HS.C3.3.
• Inquiry indicators I.1.1 and I.1.2 (Compelling and Supporting Questions). The question-formulation indicators (identifying issues and framing compelling and supporting questions) describe a classroom inquiry process the courses prompt but do not run or assess, so we do not claim them; we claim the source-analysis, data-analysis, argument, and informed-action indicators the catalog genuinely exercises.