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North Carolina standards alignment

Designed for high school. Below is every North Carolinastandard 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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  • We mapped this ourselves. This alignment was done by Better Vice Club against the published standards. It has not been reviewed, endorsed, or approved by North Carolina's education authority or by anyone else.
  • 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.
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North Carolina · Social Studies

North Carolina Standards for the Founding Principles of the United States of America and North Carolina: Civic Literacy

2021 · Approved February 4, 2021 · NCDPI State Course Code 4318 · North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) · retrieved 2026-07-18

North Carolina's graduation-required high-school civics course (legislated by N.C. Session Law 2019-82, House Bill 924). Standards use the CL.* prefix across a content-neutral Inquiry strand (I.*) and five disciplinary strands (Behavioral Sciences, Civics and Government, Economics, Geography, History). The course is overwhelmingly about the founding principles and the federal system, with North Carolina named explicitly in the judicial, constitutional, federalism, local-government, and elections objectives — where the North Carolina flagship course is mapped, as partial. Inquiry indicators are cited at the sub-indicator (bullet) level, because the indicator category stems are short.

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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 North Carolina mathematics standard.
  • North Carolina's ELA and Science standards — deferred, not denied. North Carolina writes its own 2017 English Language Arts SCOS (Common Core-derived, but with North Carolina's own text and numbering) and its own K-12 Science standards (North Carolina is NOT an NGSS state). Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite: NCDPI's own PDFs on files.nc.gov and dpi.nc.gov refused our tooling (HTTP 403) this pass, and we will not transcribe standard text from a non-authoritative third-party alignment document, so these courses carry no North Carolina claims yet. The BVC media-literacy, rhetoric, and research-project work that maps to them elsewhere is real; it is the North Carolina text we have not yet retrieved from an acceptable source.
  • The flagship's most distinctive lesson — how a bill becomes a North Carolina law — has no home in these standards. North Carolina's Civic Literacy standards are thematic (founding principles, rights, the evolution of government); they contain NO lawmaking-process objective. So the North Carolina flagship's signature lesson — how a bill becomes a North Carolina law, including that the governor had no veto until 1997 (North Carolina was the last state to grant one) and that a veto is overridden by three-fifths, not two-thirds — has no North Carolina Civic Literacy standard to cite, and we do not stretch one to fit. The gap is in the standards, not the lesson.
  • The Geography strand (CL.G.1.1–CL.G.1.3). The Civic Literacy Geography objectives are specific: how views on freedom and equality shape legislation on immigration, migration, and the environment (CL.G.1.1); the geopolitical and environmental factors affecting civic participation and voting by region (CL.G.1.2); and how the United States works with international governments on global environmental issues (CL.G.1.3). Our migration and climate content does not sit inside those policy frames, so we claim none of them.
  • Comparative government and the political-process objectives we do not teach. CL.C&G.2.4 (comparing the U.S. federal government to various governments around the world) and CL.C&G.3.4 (comparing American citizenship to membership in other governments) ask for comparative-government work the catalog does not do. CL.C&G.3.5 (how the two-party system shaped the political landscape) and CL.C&G.3.6 (the relationship between the media and government) are likewise not taught — our media-literacy work is consumer protection, not political-media analysis, the same gap flagged for Arizona's HS.C3.3.
  • Inquiry indicators I.1.1 and I.1.2 (Compelling and Supporting Questions). The question-formulation indicators (identifying issues and framing compelling and supporting questions) describe a classroom inquiry process the courses prompt but do not run or assess, so we do not claim them; we claim the source-analysis, data-analysis, argument, and informed-action indicators the catalog genuinely exercises.

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