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Designed for high school. Below is every Virginiastandard these courses cover: the exact code, the standard's own words, and the lesson that covers it. Where we only cover part of a standard, it says so, and says which part.

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  • Every code was fetched, then transcribed word for word. Each framework below shows the date its codes and text were retrieved from the publisher.
  • Standards get revised.A code can be renumbered or its wording changed without notice, and some states publish more than one live edition of the same document. Confirm anything you file against your own jurisdiction's current requirements, using the source links below.
  • We would rather claim less. Where the courses only partly cover a standard, this page says partially covered and explains the gap. Standards we considered and could not honestly claim are listed at the bottom, with the reasons.

Virginia · Social Studies

Virginia and United States Government — 2023 History and Social Science Standards of Learning

2023 · Board-approved April 20, 2023 (Grade 12 Government) · Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) / Virginia Board of Education · retrieved 2026-07-18

Virginia's Grade 12 civics anchor course, defining the knowledge that enables citizens to participate in civic and economic life. The 2023 SOL use the GOVT.* prefix across a content-neutral Skills strand and GOVT.1-GOVT.14. The course is overwhelmingly about the federal system, but GOVT.10 names Virginia's own state and local government 'as described in the Constitution of Virginia', so the Virginia flagship course is mapped there (full). Sub-standards are cited by their printed letter (GOVT.10a); where a standard's clause is too short to stand alone, the stem is cited instead.

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  • GOVT.5

    Partially covered
    The student will apply history and social science skills to explain the rights and responsibilities of United States Citizenship

    Covered by

    • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 1 · Who is a U.S. citizen? Birthright and the 14th Amendment
    • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 3 · Becoming a citizen: naturalization eligibility
    • · Jury Duty & the Courts · the whole course (the citizen's side of the court system)
    • · 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
    • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 7 · Rights and responsibilities of citizenship

    What we do and don't cover: Partial: the responsibilities the catalog teaches as practice are strong — paths to citizenship (GOVT.5a), jury service (5c, an entire course), registering and voting (5d), and keeping informed (5f). Obeying the law and paying taxes, public service, personal fiscal responsibility, and Selective Service registration (5b, 5e, 5g, 5h) are not taught.

  • GOVT.6c

    Partially covered
    describing the nomination and election process, including the organization and evolving role of political parties and interest groups

    Covered by

    • · 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: Partial: the nomination and election process (registration, primaries and caucuses, how you vote, counting and certifying) is taught thoroughly; the evolving role of parties and interest groups is not a systematic thread.

  • GOVT.6e

    Partially covered
    explaining the role of the Electoral College and the impact of reapportionment and redistricting on elections and governance

    Covered by

    • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 4 · The Electoral College: how it works
    • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 5 · Why the Electoral College exists
    • · Virginia Civics, Lesson 7 · Elections, redistricting, and how to take part

    What we do and don't cover: Partial: the Electoral College's mechanics and purpose are taught in full, and Virginia's bipartisan Redistricting Commission is taught in the flagship; the general impact of reapportionment on governance is not worked.

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 Virginia mathematics standard.
  • Virginia's English and Science SOL — deferred, not denied. Virginia writes its own English SOL and its own Science SOL (Virginia is NOT an NGSS state). Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite: the Virginia DOE's standards portal refused our tooling this pass, so these courses carry no Virginia claims yet. The BVC rhetoric, media-literacy, and research-project work that maps to them elsewhere is real; it is the Virginia text we have not yet retrieved from an acceptable source. (The GOVT Skills strand does give our source-evaluation and argument work a genuine home — Skills GOVT c and j above.)
  • The civic-identity, comparative-systems, and money-in-politics objectives we do not teach. GOVT.2b-f and GOVT.4a-d (comparing forms of government; Tocqueville's five values; the mottos 'E Pluribus Unum' and 'In God We Trust'; the American Creed) ask for civic-identity content the catalog does not teach. GOVT.3a (The Federalist Papers #10 and #51), GOVT.1d (George Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights, Jefferson's Statute for Religious Freedom, Madison's role in the Bill of Rights), GOVT.6a-b/6f (suffrage expansion, campaign finance, gerrymandering), GOVT.9d (originalism vs. judicial activism), GOVT.10e (partisan vs. nonpartisan offices), GOVT.13b/13d (Smith/Marx/Keynes/Hayek/Friedman/Sowell; the Bill of Rights vs. the Communist Manifesto), and GOVT.14b/14d-f (public goods, taxation, fiscal and monetary policy) are named but not genuinely taught, so we do not claim them.
  • GOVT.3g (the amendment process) — a real match we cannot cite as printed. GOVT.3g, 'explaining the amendment process', is a genuine match — the catalog teaches both Article V and Virginia's two-sessions-plus-a-referendum path. But the printed clause is under the ~40-character floor the isolation suite enforces to reject paraphrases, and we will not pad it. Virginia's amendment path is instead cited where it has longer standard text to attach to (GOVT.10b, GOVT.1c). The gap is in the citeable grain, not the lesson.

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