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KRS 158.141(1) provides that “[b]eginning with the entering ninth grade class of the 2025-2026 school year, and each year thereafter, graduation requirements for each student in every public high school in Kentucky graduating with a regular diploma shall include successful completion of either:
(a) A one-half (1/2) credit course in civic literacy that includes instruction in the areas required in subsection (5) of this section; or
(b) A civics test composed of one hundred (100) questions drawn from those that are set forth within the civics test administered by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to persons seeking to become naturalized citizens.”