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Bill: Cutting spending in areas where the government should not be involved I
Details
Submitted by[?]: Adam Smith 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: December 2096
Description[?]:
| Charter schools are specialist interest schools. As such they should not be funded with public money. If sections of the community wish to sponsor a school for some specific interest group they are free to do so. What should not be permitted is that one section oof the community can demand that the whole of theor local community pay for a school that is not supported by the whole of that community. |
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.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:22:26, August 12, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Cutting spending in areas where the government should not be involved I |
| Message | It will come as no surprise that the Greens oppose a federal take-over of jurisdiction in this area from the state level. There is no need to centralize in this area; instead we support allowing maximum diversity in our education system. |
| Date | 17:26:00, August 12, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Cutting spending in areas where the government should not be involved I |
| Message | The point is not to ban the schools, but to ban the public funding of them. They are not to be allowed when defined as free, privately run, publicly funded schools. We have no objection to free, privately run, PRIVATELY funded schools. There is no federal take over involved. Just a recognition that public money should be used in the interests of the entire public, not just a small subsection. |
| Date | 21:03:05, August 12, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Cutting spending in areas where the government should not be involved I |
| Message | There is a federal limitation on the spending power of states. |
| Date | 06:16:47, August 13, 2005 CET | From |  Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Cutting spending in areas where the government should not be involved I |
| Message | ASP, how do you see a voucher system? Because I see our preferred proposal for that law as privately run, but publicly funded(through vouchers). |
| Date | 06:39:46, August 13, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Cutting spending in areas where the government should not be involved I |
| Message | I am happy with vouchers where there are no state funded schools. These, Charter schools, are by definition fully state funded and as such can not be part of a sensible voucher system. |
| Date | 19:44:19, August 13, 2005 CET | From | Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Cutting spending in areas where the government should not be involved I |
| Message | Vouchers=State Funded |
| Date | 06:41:40, August 16, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Cutting spending in areas where the government should not be involved I |
| Message | Vouchers fund the student, not the school. There is choice involved, personla choice of the individual. Note the word "fully" in our last reply. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 239 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 211 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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