Attorney General Derek Schmidt endorsed a proposal Tuesday to create a state law requiring that Kansas students pass an examination based on the U.S. citizenship test to graduate from high school.
He said the idea of establishing a test was unassailable because evidence of the nation’s shortcomings in basic civics knowledge was pervasive. A survey released last year showed a mere 39% of Americans were able to name the three branches of government, he said. An appalling 22% could identify no more than one branch. Only 53% of those surveyed knew a two-thirds vote of Congress was required to override a presidential veto, he said.
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