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Bill: Public-Private Educational Partnership Bill
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: February 2386
Description[?]:
This bill seeks to introduce private sector involvement into Telamon's antiquated education system. We believe that the private sector can bring much benefit to Telamonian education by being involved in the management and running of the schools system - bringing greater efficiency, better standards of service and education, more investment etc. We do however acknowledge our colleagues concerns over the complete privatisation of the mainstream education system. We therefore propose a public-private partnership in which the private sector would take over the management and day to day running of schools, however government would continue to regulate the admissions policy and provide oversight of the system to ensure equal education for all. In doing so, the government would continue to subsidise the cost of education for all students. This would therefore maintain state oversight and regulation of the education system, whilst allowing private sector involvement. Furthermore, as a transistion measure, this bill would expand the currently small number of charter schools (publically funded but privately run) in order to encourage not for profit private sector organisations in particular to become involved in the running of the education system. Pre school education, will for the present time continue to be directly run by the state, pending a government review. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Charter school policy (free, privately run, publicly funded schools).
Old value:: Charter school funding, regulation, and development is left up to local governments.
Current: Charter schools are not allowed.
Proposed: Only non-profit organizations may establish charter schools.
Article 2
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 subsidises the cost of it for everyone
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 22:56:12, April 05, 2007 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the Public-Private Educational Partnership Bill |
Message | "No. Education is not a commodity to be bought and sold (and now subsidised?) on the private market. The first proposal is less offensive. If the Alliance presses this issue however, there will be reprecussions." -Lillian Rhayne President of the Commonwealth |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | ||||
yes |
Total Seats: 170 | ||||
no |
Total Seats: 225 | ||||
abstain | Total Seats: 206 |
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