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Bill: Education for all
Details
Submitted by[?]: Progressive Liberals
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: June 2439
Description[?]:
| Lets get rid of this two-tier system. Let those who can pay, pay. This means those who can't pay have a better standard of education - they aren't thrown into below-par public schools. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: 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.
Current: Education is private, but the government subsidises the cost of it for everyone
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 | 05:52:32, August 04, 2007 CET | From |  Liberty Party | To | Debating the Education for all |
| Message | The voucher system is the perfect system. Say the state spends 8K on each student per year. Every child gets one. All public schools cost 8K per year. Say the private school the parents send their child to costs 10K per year. The parents are required to pay only another 2K, the government pays for the rest. This way, all education is "public", but parents have far more choice in their child's education. The beauty of it is the voucher can only be spent on education, and education for all. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 169 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 232 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Don't put "the" as the first word in your party name, because when parties are referred to in news reports, their names are preceded with "the", e.g. the [Socialist Party] has lost. |
| Random quote: "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Winston Churchill |