Kansas

Chapter 72. Schools
Article 11. School Attendance, Curriculum and Accreditation

Section 72-1103. Required courses of instruction; graduation requirements.

All accredited schools, public, private or parochial, shall provide and give a complete course of instruction to all pupils, in civil government, and United States history, and in patriotism and the duties of a citizen, suitable to the elementary grades; in addition thereto, all accredited high schools, public, private or parochial, shall give a course of instruction concerning the government and institutions of the United States, and particularly of the constitution of the United States; and no student who has not taken and satisfactorily passed such course shall be certified as having completed the course requirements necessary for graduation from high school.

[This statute was located on March 25, 2005 and may have been modified or amended since that date.]