Idaho standards alignment

• 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.37

  Covered

  Explain the Electoral College system, and how it has evolved over time, and compare arguments for and against it.

  Covered by

  • Voting & Elections 101

  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 4 · The Electoral College: how it works
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 5 · Why the Electoral College exists

  Note: The Electoral College's mechanics and its original purpose and modern relevance — including the arguments for and against it — are taught directly.

• 9-12.GOV.18

  Covered

  Describe the means that citizens use to responsibly participate in the political process, including campaigning, petitioning, demonstrating, running for office, lobbying, and voting.

  Covered by

  • How to Help a Campaign: A Practical, Non-Partisan Guide
  • How to Run for Office: A Practical, Non-Partisan Guide
  • US, State & Local Government: Who Does What
  • Voting & Elections 101

  • · How to Help a Campaign · the whole course (volunteering, donating, canvassing, with the legal guardrails)
  • · How to Run for Office · the whole course (eligibility, ballot access, money rules, and after Election Day)
  • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 8 · Where to show up and be heard, at every level
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 1 · Registering to vote
  • · How to Help a Campaign, Lesson 10 · Helping ballot measures and local causes

  Note: The standard's own means — campaigning (helping a campaign lawfully), petitioning and ballot measures, running for office, showing up where issues are decided, and voting — are each taught end to end.

• 9-12.GOV.51

  Covered

  Describe the nomination and election process in American national and state elections, including the Electoral College.

  Covered by

  • Voting & Elections 101

  • · 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

  Note: The nomination-and-election process — registration, primaries and caucuses, how you vote, the count, and the Electoral College — is taught end to end.

• 9-12.GOV.35

  Partially covered

  Analyze Article II of the Constitution as it relates to the executive branch, including appointments, oath of office, Commander-in-chief of the military, powers of the president, eligibility for office, succession (25th Amendment), executive orders, treaties, length of term (20th and 22nd Amendments).

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works
  • Voting & Elections 101

  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 3-6 · Articles I-III and checks & balances
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 1 · Purpose of government and the three branches
  • · 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: Article II's executive role, eligibility, and election to office (including the Electoral College) are taught; the standard's executive orders, treaties, succession under the 25th Amendment, and the 20th/22nd-Amendment term rules are not each a dedicated unit, so this is partial.

• 9-12.GOV.13

  Partially covered

  Describe, at the national, state, and local level, what should be reasonably expected from any citizen or resident of the U.S. and explain why it is important for the well-being of the nation, including being informed on civic issues, serving in the military or alternative service, obeying the law, paying taxes, volunteering, and performing public service, respecting the rights of others, serving as a juror, and voting.

  Covered by

  • Citizenship & Naturalization Basics
  • Jury Duty & the Courts (the citizen's side)
  • Voting & Elections 101

  • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 7 · Rights and responsibilities of citizenship
  • · Jury Duty & the Courts · the whole course (the citizen's side of the court system)
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 1 · Registering to vote

  What we do and don't cover: The rights and responsibilities of citizenship, jury service as an entire course, and registering and voting are each taught as practice; the standard's military/alternative-service and tax-paying duties are not dedicated units, so this is partial.

• 9-12.GOV.16

  Partially covered

  Explain the role and evolution of political parties in governing and in the recruitment/election of political candidates and the importance of and difference between primaries, caucuses, and general elections.

  Covered by

  • Voting & Elections 101

  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: The difference between primaries, caucuses, and general elections is taught directly; the role and historical evolution of political parties in governing and candidate recruitment is not, so this is partial.

• 9-12.GOV.49

  Partially covered

  Describe the evolution of voting (methods and process) and enfranchisement including key amendments (15th, 19th, 23rd, 24th, 26th) and laws (1965 Voting Rights Act) that have extended the right to vote to previously disenfranchised Americans.

  Covered by

  • Voting & Elections 101

  • · 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 1 · Registering to vote

  What we do and don't cover: Voting methods and process — registration, primaries, how you vote, and counting — are taught in depth; the enfranchisement amendment history and the 1965 Voting Rights Act by name are not a dedicated unit, so this is partial.

• 9-12.GOV.55

  Partially covered

  Evaluate the challenges of the election process.

  Covered by

  • Voting & Elections 101

  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: The integrity machinery a challenge tests — counting, canvassing, and certifying the vote — is taught; a systematic survey of contemporary election-process challenges 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.