Washington standards alignment

• C2.11-12.2

  Partially covered

  Analyze the origins, functions, and structure of government with reference to the United States, Washington state, and tribal constitutions.

  Covered by

  • Washington Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Washington Civics, Lesson 1 · Washington's Constitution of 1889 and its direct democracy
  • · Washington Civics, Lesson 2 · Washington's 'plural' executive: nine elected statewide officials
  • · Washington Civics, Lesson 3 · The courts and the Legislature
  • · Washington Civics, Lesson 4 · How a bill becomes a Washington law

  What we do and don't cover: The Washington 1:1 flagship anchor. Washington's own origins (the 1889 constitution and its direct democracy), functions, and structure — the nine-official plural executive, the 49-district Legislature, the nonpartisan elected courts, the two lawmaking roads — are taught in depth, and the U.S. structure through the federal civics courses. Partial only because the standard also names tribal constitutions, which the flagship does not teach.

• C2.11-12.4

  Partially covered

  Evaluate the effectiveness of our system of checks and balances in limiting the power of government at the national, state, and local levels.

  Covered by

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

  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 6 · Separation of powers and checks & balances
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 7 · Federalism: state and federal power
  • · Washington Civics, Lesson 3 · The courts and the Legislature

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: checks and balances are taught directly at the national level, and Washington's own limits — the Governor's line-item veto and the two-thirds override — through the flagship. The standard's systematic evaluation of the balance at the state and local levels is not fully worked.

• C4.11-12.2

  Partially covered

  Analyze and evaluate ways of influencing local, state, and national governments and international organizations to establish or preserve individual rights and/or promote the common good.

  Covered by

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

  • · Washington Civics, Lesson 6 · Taxes, local government, and how to take part
  • · How to Help a Campaign · the whole course (volunteering, donating, canvassing, with the legal guardrails)
  • · How to Help a Campaign, Lesson 10 · Helping ballot measures and local causes
  • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 8 · Where to show up and be heard, at every level

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: influencing local, state, and national government is taught as practice — Washington's unusually open initiative and referendum on-ramps, helping a campaign or a ballot measure lawfully, and showing up at every level. The standard's “international organizations” are not a course focus.

• C2.11-12.1

  Partially covered

  Analyze citizens’ and institutions’ effectiveness in addressing social and political problems at the local, state, tribal, national and/or international level.

  Covered by

  • Washington Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Washington Civics, Lesson 6 · Taxes, local government, and how to take part

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: addressing problems at the local and state level is taught through Washington's counties, code cities, and special districts, its contested tax structure, and how a resident takes part. The tribal, national, and international scales, and a formal effectiveness analysis, are not the flagship's focus.

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 Common Core mathematics standard Washington adopted.
• Science — almost nothing. There is no laboratory work, no investigation and no scientific modelling here. Washington adopted the NGSS verbatim (as the WSSLS), and we claim a single NGSS performance expectation, partially, explaining exactly why on the entry itself. It is not a science course and we will not sell it as one.
• Tribal governments and the Since Time Immemorial curriculum. Washington's social studies standards repeatedly reference tribal constitutions, tribal sovereignty, and the Since Time Immemorial curriculum (e.g., C2.11-12.2 names tribal constitutions; the standards footnote tribal connections throughout). The catalog does not teach tribal government, so we claim only the United-States and Washington-state portions of those standards and mark C2.11-12.2 partial for exactly this reason.
• The flagship's election and tax specifics have no dedicated Washington code. Washington Civics teaches the all-mail (vote-by-mail) system and the top-two primary — the state's most distinctive civics content — plus the contested no-personal-income-tax tradition (the uniformity clause; the 2021 capital-gains tax upheld in 2023). Washington's high-school Civics standards contain no discrete election-administration or tax-policy standard, so this election content is taught but carries no Washington claim, and the tax content is reached only through the general C2 civics standards. The specifics have no code — the gap is in the standards, not the course.
• Prohibition, the War on Drugs as domestic policy, and mass incarceration. The catalog teaches all three. Washington's 2019 social studies standards are analytical and thematic (“current events rooted in past events,” “individuals and movements”) rather than event-naming, so — unlike Washington, D.C. — there is no Washington standard that names Prohibition or mass incarceration to cite. We claim the War on Drugs' foreign-policy arm only through the broad H4.11-12.3, and mark it partial.
• The wider catalog — health, PE, AI-literacy, and languages. Washington's relevant frameworks for these (Health and Physical Education; Computer Science; World Languages) have not been fetched and verified yet. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no Washington claims this pass.