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Bill: Education Reform Act!
Details
Submitted by[?]: Radical Nationalist Party
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 2419
Description[?]:
| We believe that private education creates a unfair class system with the rich getting better education and the government not feeling to not need to force improvements because of the private facilities being there. We feel by making it all public the pressure of the people will force the government to make standards the highest they possibly can. |
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 school funding, regulation, and development is left up to local governments.
Proposed: Charter schools are not allowed.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The regulation of higher education.
Old value:: The government allows public and private higher education institutions to coexist with self-regulation for those that are private.
Current: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Proposed: The government does not allow private higher education institutions.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Pre-school education.
Old value:: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside heavily regulated private establishments.
Current: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nursery and pre-school educational centres.
Proposed: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nursery and pre-school educational centres.
Article 4
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 and a small number of private schools, which are heavily regulated to ensure they teach adequate skills and information.
Proposed: Education is entirely public and free; private schools are banned.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:53:23, June 22, 2007 CET | From | Lodamun Distributionist Party | To | Debating the Education Reform Act! |
| Message | We may be able to talk about these as single or dual issues, but four at a time may be too many to come to a consensus. |
| Date | 23:18:56, June 22, 2007 CET | From | Radical Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Education Reform Act! |
| Message | The only article which is possibly much of a difference is Charter schools, if that causes much debate I am willing to seperate Article 1 into its own bill for debate. |
| Date | 05:04:57, June 23, 2007 CET | From | The Unified Lodamun Party | To | Debating the Education Reform Act! |
| Message | Dr. John Geib has read these proposals, and feels that this bill is worthy of discussion, however Article 2 can be changed to "private institutions must meet national standards" and article 4 is just dumb, and I promise you this bill will not pass with its' being present. I can take this to the papers if necessary, but we feel that we should be able to work this out in a democratic manner. |
| Date | 11:50:28, June 23, 2007 CET | From | Radical Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Education Reform Act! |
| Message | We are against private interference in the education system as we said earlier. |
| Date | 12:51:13, June 23, 2007 CET | From | Democrats | To | Debating the Education Reform Act! |
| Message | Completely opposed, this would end up ruining our education system. |
| Date | 11:42:04, June 24, 2007 CET | From | Communist Party of Lodamun | To | Debating the Education Reform Act! |
| Message | Yeah! Full Communist support for the NP! |
| Date | 23:45:18, June 24, 2007 CET | From | Independent Republican Party | To | Debating the Education Reform Act! |
| Message | This completely destroys the Lodamun education system by taking away private schools. Doing so would force citizens to enroll in public education, which, if not up to standard, could provide people with a poor education. Well, we guess that's what communism is about... |
| Date | 00:47:05, June 27, 2007 CET | From | Democrats | To | Debating the Education Reform Act! |
| Message | Whoop! Lucky the forgetfullness of our party whips didn't cause a disaster here. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 121 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 249 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 229 |
| Random fact: It is the collective responsibility of the players in a nation to ensure all currently binding RP laws are clearly outlined in an OOC reference bill in the "Bills under debate" section of the nation page. Confusion should not be created by displaying only some of the current RP laws or displaying RP laws which are no longer current. |
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