Senior education policy analyst Ross Izard recently penned an op-ed for the Denver Post on Senate Bill 148. As Ross explains in the piece, SB148 “aims to address that problem by requiring high school students to pass the civics portion of the U.S. Naturalization Test — a version of the same test taken by immigrants applying for U.S. citizenship.”
Ross goes on to argue, “The requirement that American public school students pass a version of the same test that immigrants seeking citizenship must take is not unreasonable. Ninety-one percent of immigrants who have taken the test have passed. Are we to believe our students cannot meet the same standard?”
