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Bill: Education Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Gao-Showa Imperial Party
Status[?]: passed
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: April 2421
Description[?]:
| An overhaul of the educaion system. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Charter school policy (free, privately run, publicly funded schools).
Old value:: Charter schools must have a specific focus.
Current: Charter schools must have a specific focus.
Proposed: Charter school funding, regulation, and development is left up to local governments.
Article 2
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 leaves the development and funding of all higher education institutions up to local governments.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Pre-school education.
Old value:: Pre-school education is private, but the government covers the schoolcosts of poor families.
Current: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside unregulated private establishments.
Proposed: The government leaves the pre-school education policy to local governments.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: Education is private, but the government issues vouchers to pay for the schooling of disadvantaged children.
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 | 17:34:01, June 28, 2007 CET | From |  Progressive Liberal Party of Hulstria | To | Debating the Education Bill |
| Message | Education is the future. Don`t you want to control the future? |
| Date | 18:20:24, June 28, 2007 CET | From | Gao-Showa Imperial Party | To | Debating the Education Bill |
| Message | Not if centralised state control will make the future worse. We do not need power for powers sake. |
| Date | 22:51:36, June 28, 2007 CET | From | Progressive Liberal Party of Hulstria | To | Debating the Education Bill |
| Message | Why should a centralised state make it worse? As state, you have a department with civil servants and people who know of education, who knows the mind of a child. Why should a local goverment has more understanding of it then the national goverment? |
| Date | 00:10:10, June 29, 2007 CET | From | Gao-Showa Imperial Party | To | Debating the Education Bill |
| Message | Why should the regional government have less knowledge than the central government? The central government interferes too much in the way the regions wish to run themselves. This is a country of 125 million people and it is stupid to think the bureaucracy in Kien can govern every facet of a nation as large and complex as this one. |
| Date | 12:28:17, June 29, 2007 CET | From | Progressive Liberal Party of Hulstria | To | Debating the Education Bill |
| Message | Why should a local goverment know more then a National goverment? Local goverments look at the small local conditions, not whats best for the country. Of course can a national of 125 million people be governed by a strong central goverment. Or is this not the case in China, India? |
| Date | 12:47:54, June 29, 2007 CET | From | Gao-Showa Imperial Party | To | Debating the Education Bill |
| Message | OOC: you're not supposed to talk about real world situations in the game. Also India is a very decentralised country and I do believe that most education policy lies with the state governments. I think China is the same but I'm not so sure. |
| Date | 15:00:54, June 29, 2007 CET | From | Progressive Liberal Party of Hulstria | To | Debating the Education Bill |
| Message | I`m sorry wont happen again, China isn`t decentralised, yeah of course in some ways, but national goverment is huge over there. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 277 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 147 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 221 |
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