Arizona 1st In Nation To Require High Schoolers To Pass Civics Test
1/19/15
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from NPR,
1/16/15:
What year was the Constitution written?
Who was president during World War I?
If you couldn’t answer one or both of the above, you might not be able to pass a civics test given to candidates for U.S. citizenship. Or (starting in 2017) graduate from high school in Arizona.
On Thursday, Gov. Doug Ducey signed a bill making a high school diploma in the state contingent upon students passing the same test given to candidates for U.S. citizenship. The class of 2017 will be the first to have the new requirement.
The Associated Press reports the test is “being pushed nationally by the Scottsdale-based Joe Foss Institute, which wants all 50 states to adopt it by 2017.”
See the complete test here.
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