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Bill: Equality in Education - Part 1
Details
Submitted by[?]: Social Revolutionary 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: July 2465
Description[?]:
| The goal of education should be to give all students, regardless of circumstances, the oppurtunity to succeed in the world. If the emphasis is on making money (which it is, if left to the private sector), then the actual educating takes second priority. In addition, private, for-profit education disadvantages poorer students - they are poor through no fault of their own, but if they are unable to afford education, then their poverty will be perpetuated. |
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 are not allowed.
Proposed: Charter schools must be non-profit and have a specific focus.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Pre-school education.
Old value:: The government leaves development of nurseries to the private sector.
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 nurseries alongside heavily regulated private establishments.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: Education is entirely private and schools run on a for-profit basis.
Current: Education is entirely public and free; private schools are banned.
Proposed: 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.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:14:24, October 03, 2007 CET | From | Endralon Confederates Party | To | Debating the Equality in Education - Part 1 |
| Message | Actually, thats not correct. When the motive is making money, the education gets better. If my goal is to make a profit, I'm going to offer the best damn education I can, and cheap as well, to draw in the most business as possible. If I'm providing a crappy education, no one would want to come to my school, they'd go to my competitor across the street. It makes perfect sense, when companies compete, products and services rise in quality and prices go down. When the government controls them, there is no competition, no motive to offer better, cheaper education. It's merely stagnant. You have a bunch of rich, federal bureaucrats trying to decide what the best education is, (which believe they have no clue) instead of the actual people decided through the free market. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 146 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 261 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 93 |
| Random fact: The players in a nation have a collective responsibility to ensure their "Bills under debate" section is kept in good order. Bills which are irrelevant or have become irrelevant should be deleted. Deletion can be requested for bills proposed by inactive parties on the Bill Clearout Requests thread: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4363 |
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