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Bill: Educational Privatisation Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: United Liberal Alliance
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: January 2384
Description[?]:
| This act would introduce private investment into our educational system to seek to increase investment and create a world class education system for Telamon. Obviously the goverment would still provide regulation and would ensure access for all through the issuing of vouchers to poorer families and through scholarships and burseries provided by the schools and universities themselves, so ensuring that a proportional contribution towards their education is made according to ability to pay with the poorest paying nothing. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Higher education institutions.
Old value:: The government maintains a system of universities, vocational schools, and colleges nationwide.
Current: The government maintains a system of universities, vocational schools, and colleges nationwide.
Proposed: The government does not maintain any forms of higher education.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Pre-school education.
Old value:: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nursery and pre-school educational centres.
Current: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nursery and pre-school educational centres.
Proposed: Pre-school education is private, but the government covers the schoolcosts of poor families.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Current: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Proposed: Education is private, but the government issues vouchers to pay for the schooling of disadvantaged children.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:42:45, April 01, 2007 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the Educational Privatisation Act |
| Message | Whoa, whoa, whoa. What happened to no radical leaps? |
| Date | 02:00:23, April 01, 2007 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the Educational Privatisation Act |
| Message | We continue to oppose policies such as these which introduce unequal education for our Commonwealth. We believe that all children deserve the right to an equality of opportunity, which includes a top of the line PUBLIC education. Privatized education fundamentally fails in providing this equality. Moreover, it introduces an antisocial element into our Commonwealth, as education in privatized institutions becomes stratified according to class, and no class interacts with another. Privatization of this magnitude will, again, be repudiated by the voters. |
| Date | 02:04:25, April 01, 2007 CET | From | United Liberal Alliance | To | Debating the Educational Privatisation Act |
| Message | I don't recall any commitment on my part to no 'radical' leaps. If I did or there is some such agreement then show me and I will either tone down or withdraw this bill |
| Date | 07:48:07, April 01, 2007 CET | From | Imperialist Party | To | Debating the Educational Privatisation Act |
| Message | I can support article 1, but the others not so much. |
| Date | 19:46:18, April 01, 2007 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the Educational Privatisation Act |
| Message | I just made that up. |
| Date | 11:31:43, April 02, 2007 CET | From | United Liberal Alliance | To | Debating the Educational Privatisation Act |
| Message | Oops, sorry I was going to split this bill wasn't I! Ah well it'll just do to raise my profile and if we still have a majority after the next election I'll reintroduce to seperate ones - one on higher education and then one on the rest |
| Date | 19:43:03, April 02, 2007 CET | From | Conservative Alliance | To | Debating the Educational Privatisation Act |
| Message | We'd rather have a state system alongside a private one. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 118 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 394 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 89 |
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