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Bill: Education (Charter Schools) Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Conservative 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 2445
Description[?]:
| Chaerter Schools should be allowed in this country, private educatiton does wonders! |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Charter school policy (free, privately run, publicly funded schools).
Old value:: Charter schools are not allowed.
Current: Charter school funding, regulation, and development is left up to local governments.
Proposed: Charter schools must have a specific focus.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:30:39, August 19, 2007 CET | From | CSA Pax et Socialism | To | Debating the Education (Charter Schools) Act |
| Message | Name one person from a charter school who's had a good education, and for that, I will name 20 people who have had to pay his taxes, just under $250,000 for education, and DIDN'T go to a charter school. |
| Date | 21:32:47, August 19, 2007 CET | From | CSA Pax et Socialism | To | Debating the Education (Charter Schools) Act |
| Message | A person we all know, a scientist, university teacher, architect, don't make up some Joe Smoe name. And if you have to use google to find one, you have defeated the person and prove my own perspective on charter schools. |
| Date | 11:01:12, August 20, 2007 CET | From | Cosa Nostra | To | Debating the Education (Charter Schools) Act |
| Message | OOC: hmm... charter schools seem to be a mainly US concept, so I had to do some looking up to get acquainted with it. From what I have read here and there neither the pros nor the cons seem to be very convincing, which means charter schools are just another form of education. Which means more choice for the people, which we think is a good thing: freedom of choice embodies freedom in general. That is why we vote yes. |
| Date | 17:36:42, August 20, 2007 CET | From | CSA Pax et Socialism | To | Debating the Education (Charter Schools) Act |
| Message | Don't be so naive about charter schools and vote for something you don't comprehend. * Schools of choice create inequities by taking the more desirable students. * Students in schools of choice have fewer opportunities to learn from students of different backgrounds. * School choice changes the focus from education for the public good to education for the private good. Education is no longer being seen as providing "some common experiences in common settings." Will those without children in schools continue to support education in light of this change? |
| Date | 17:37:52, August 20, 2007 CET | From | CSA Pax et Socialism | To | Debating the Education (Charter Schools) Act |
| Message | In the town of Gonzalez, prosecutors said this spring, operators of the Escambia Charter School taught students for an hour a day four days of the week -- and hired them out to work on state road projects the rest of the time. |
| Date | 17:39:24, August 20, 2007 CET | From | CSA Pax et Socialism | To | Debating the Education (Charter Schools) Act |
| Message | Teachers at a new charter school can't join the districtwide union for the first five years of the school's operation. At that point, they can elect to join. They can form their own collective bargaining unit in the first five years, but it will be limited to that one school. |
| Date | 17:40:46, August 20, 2007 CET | From | CSA Pax et Socialism | To | Debating the Education (Charter Schools) Act |
| Message | Q: Can the school pick and choose its students? A: No. Enrollment may be limited only on the basis of age group or grade level. If more students apply than the school has space for, it must fill the slots through a lottery (except that siblings of already-enrolled students get preference). Conversion charter schools must guarantee slots to any students enrolled in the school before its conversion. Q: How is a charter school different from a regular public school? A: It can operate outside the regular administrative structure of the local school district and school board, free of many state regulations. That means the operators can hire whom they want as principal or as teachers, can choose curriculums and set up a schedule for the school day and year, for example, independently of the district administration and school board. |
| Date | 23:25:32, August 20, 2007 CET | From | Cosa Nostra | To | Debating the Education (Charter Schools) Act |
| Message | I still don't see the problem, as long as there are other schools to choose from. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 125 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 348 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 82 |
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