
Iowa High School Students Might Have To Pass A Citizenship Test To Graduate
Civics class might get higher stakes in Iowa.
Remember your Civics class? Mine was my freshman year of high school and it was very interesting. We learned judiciary through my professor's "Hot Dog Dom" and it's branches of government. Get the picture?
Now, the stakes for a Civics class might get a bit higher.
Currently, Iowa students have to take a semester Civics course to graduate.
House Study Bill 30 has been introduced in the Iowa legislature and it's headed to the House floor.
A New Test
The bill would require high school students in Iowa to take and pass the "United States Citizenship And Immigration Services Naturalization Civics Test" in order to graduate.
According to KCCI, the test would be multiple choice questions that are chosen randomly from the pool of 100 questions.
Students will have to get at least a 60% on the test to pass and they can take it as many times as they need to in order to pass.
This week, lawmakers voted 14-8 to advance the bill from the House Education Committee to the House floor. Similar pieces of legislation have been introduced in years past but haven't made it to Iowa law.
Other states have similar requirements. Idaho, Louisiana, Virginia, and West Virginia require students to take a full-year Civics course and pass a standard Civics test. Multiple other states require the passing of a Civics test too.
If Iowa's bill requiring a Civics test becomes law, it will go into effect before next school year, on July 1st, 2026.
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