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Committee advances bill replacing naturalization-based civics test with state-developed assessment for graduation
Summary
House Bill 397 would require a state-developed civics assessment aligned to Idaho standards as a graduation requirement; the House Education Committee voted to advance the bill to the floor after discussion about implementation, timing and the meaning of "successful completion."
Representative Wisniewski (State Representative) told the House Education Committee on March 13 that House Bill 397 would move civics and history graduation requirements into statute and replace the existing naturalization-style civics assessment with a state-developed test aligned to Idaho's government standards.
Wisniewski said the bill would tie the new assessment to a curriculum emphasis on Western political traditions, including Greek democracy, Roman republicanism and English common-law foundations, but would not make the requirements effective immediately: "We're not gonna make these requirements effective this coming school year," he told the committee.
Greg Wilson, chief of staff at the State…
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