Louisiana standards alignment

• C.11.f

  Covered

  Evaluate the purpose, structure, and function of the Electoral College, including how it aims to ensure representation for less populated states.

  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: Voting & Elections 101 teaches both halves the expectation names: how the Electoral College works, and why it exists — including its aim of representation for less populated states.

• C.11.a

  Partially covered

  Analyze the duties and responsibilities of citizens in the United States, including paying taxes, serving on a jury, obeying the law, voting, and Selective Service registration.

  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: Partial: the core duties are taught as practice — jury service (an entire course), voting and registration, and the responsibilities of citizenship. Paying taxes and Selective Service registration, which the expectation also names, are not taught.

• 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.