Alaska standards alignment

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 Alaska (2012) mathematics standard.
• Science — one partial claim, via the shared NGSS file. Alaska's 2019 K-12 Science Standards reproduce the NGSS HS-ESS3-1 performance expectation verbatim, so our one honest science claim — HS-ESS3-1, partial — comes through the shared NGSS mapping with the limit stated on the entry. There is no laboratory work, investigation, or modelling in this catalog, and we will not claim more.
• Alaska Native communities, ANCSA, and tribal governments (Government and Citizenship, Standard C). Alaska's Standard C requires students to understand the historical and current roles of Alaska Native communities, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and its impact on the state, and the roles of and relationships among the federal, tribal, and state governments (its items 4, 5, and 8). Alaska Civics teaches Alaska's state and local structure — boroughs, the Unorganized Borough, the strong governor, the Permanent Fund, the courts, and the election system — but does not teach Alaska Native governance or ANCSA, so Standard C is claimed as partial. The gap is in the course, not the standard.
• Alaska's own state structure is taught more fully than Standard C captures. Alaska Civics teaches the Constitution of 1959, boroughs instead of counties and the vast Unorganized Borough where the state provides county-type services, the strong governor with only two elected statewide officials, the 40/20 Legislature with no term limits, the line-item veto with a two-thirds/three-quarters override, the merit-selection judiciary, the citizen initiative/referendum/recall, the 2020 top-four/ranked-choice election system, and the Permanent Fund with no state income or sales tax — all from Alaska's own sources. Standard C hosts most of it, but this lettered content standard is a single broad statement, not an Alaska-government checklist, so the top-four/ranked-choice system, the Permanent Fund Dividend, and the boroughs have no code of their own.
• The international-affairs and economic-decision-making standards we checked and rejected. Government and Citizenship Standard D (the role of the United States in international affairs — foreign policy, U.S. influence on other nations, international organizations) and Standard G (the impact of economic choices and effective participation in local, state, national, and global economies — the economic-decision-making pedagogy of scarcity, costs and benefits, and informed choices) are not genuinely taught, so we do not claim them.
• The AI-literacy ladder, the language courses, and Learning How to Learn — deferred, not denied. Alaska's closest frameworks for these (its digital-literacy/technology and world-languages standards) have not been fetched and verified yet. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no Alaska claims this pass.