Lawmakers are pushing bills to expand civics education
OLYMPIA — Maybe it’s the constitutional scrap incited by the McCleary school funding decision.
Maybe it’s the constitutional commotion ignited by President Donald Trump’s travel ban executive order.
Or maybe they simply want to inspire more conversations about the Constitution and governance, ours and the nation’s, in classrooms across Washington.
Whatever the motives, initiatives to improve and expand civics education are wending their way through the legislative labyrinth.
In the House, conservative Republican Rep. Bruce Chandler of Granger and liberal Democratic Rep. Sharon Tomiko Santos of Seattle have introduced a bill requiring high school students to pass a slice of the civics component in the federal citizenship test to graduate. It directs the state superintendent to devise a test with 50 questions, with at least 35 correct answers necessary to earn a passing grade.
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