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Bill: Education reform act 2405
Details
Submitted by[?]: United Forces of Decay
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: May 2406
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Charter school policy (free, privately run, publicly funded schools).
Old value:: Only non-profit organizations may establish charter schools.
Current: Only non-profit organizations may establish charter schools.
Proposed: Charter schools are not allowed.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Education for children under adult age.
Old value:: Education is compulsory, but home schooling is permitted.
Current: Education is compulsory, but home schooling is permitted.
Proposed: Education is compulsory and has to happen at school.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The age until which students, if education were to be compulsary, are required to be educated (limited between 16 and 21).
Old value:: 18
Current: 18
Proposed: 16
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government subsidizes tuition only for students from families classified as low-income or poor.
Current: The government subsidizes higher education tuition to a certain amount, the rest is covered by the individual students. This includes scholarship programs.
Proposed: The government does not subsidize tuition, students must pay for higher education themselves. This does not include scholarship programs.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Sexual education in schools.
Old value:: Schools have an obligation to give sexual education at some point in puberty.
Current: Schools have an obligation to give sexual education at some point in puberty, but individual students have an opt-out option.
Proposed: This decision is up to the schools themselves without government regulation.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:23:07, May 18, 2007 CET | From | Sensible Parity | To | Debating the Education reform act 2405 |
| Message | This is not Sensible Parity. The impulses of the various proposals pull in many directions. Meditate on this. |
| Date | 01:49:28, May 18, 2007 CET | From | United Forces of Decay | To | Debating the Education reform act 2405 |
| Message | The Cult of Decay, the religion, almost all of our party members follow, refuses using meditation. We don't need this, we also don't need no sort of oracles or something similar. Our party leaders are gods and what gods say, can't be wrong. If a cultist has a question he asks a cultist on a higher rank above him about this question, and if he's lucky this same higher ranking cultist will ask one of the dark lords of decay. And the dark lords of decay themselves also don't have the need to meditate. They simply don't have to look for answers, they know them already. - A cultist of the Cult of Decay, discussing this matter with one of the far too many members and admirers of the Sensible Parity |
| Date | 03:30:01, May 18, 2007 CET | From | Sensible Parity | To | Debating the Education reform act 2405 |
| Message | Interesting! I will meditate on that. |
| Date | 07:26:34, May 18, 2007 CET | From | "Le Chaim" - Aesthetic Party | To | Debating the Education reform act 2405 |
| Message | 2 yes, the rest no... |
| Date | 13:38:54, May 18, 2007 CET | From | Conservative Union Party | To | Debating the Education reform act 2405 |
| Message | Don't like 5 at all, the rest we may be swayed on. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 54 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 170 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 26 |
| Random fact: In cases where a party has no seat, the default presumption should be that the party is able to contribute to debates in the legislature due to one of its members winning a seat at a by-election. However, players may collectively improvise arrangements of their own to provide a satisfying explanation for how parties with no seats in the legislature can speak and vote there. |
| Random quote: "The trouble with communism is the communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians" - Henry Louis Mencken |