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Bill: Education Reform Act 2100
Details
Submitted by[?]: Dolgarian Imperial Revivalists
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: November 2100
Description[?]:
| Lets teach the kids how to get a job, rather than becoming human detritus. |
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.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Higher education institutions.
Old value:: The government leaves the development and funding of all higher education institutions up to local governments.
Current: The government leaves the development and funding of vocational schools and colleges up to local governments.
Proposed: The government maintains a system of universities, vocational schools, and colleges nationwide.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The regulation of higher education.
Old value:: The government allows public and private higher education institutions to coexist with self-regulation for those that are private.
Current: The government does not fund any public higher education institutions, permitting only private higher education institutions to exist.
Proposed: The government does not allow private higher education institutions.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government subsidizes tuition only for students from families classified as low-income or poor.
Current: The government introduces means tested loans for higher education tuition, to be paid back by students after earnings reach a certain amount.
Proposed: The government subsidizes higher education tuition to a certain amount, the rest is covered by the individual students. This includes scholarship programs.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Pre-school education.
Old value:: The government leaves development of nurseries to the private sector.
Current: The government leaves the pre-school education policy to local governments.
Proposed: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside heavily regulated private establishments.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Current: Education is a matter of local governments.
Proposed: Education is entirely public and free; private schools are banned.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change Sexual education in schools.
Old value:: This decision is up to the schools themselves without government regulation.
Current: This decision is up to the schools themselves without government regulation.
Proposed: Schools have an obligation to give sexual education at some point in puberty.
Article 8
Proposal[?] to change The teacher's right to discipline children.
Old value:: Discipline levels are set by local governments.
Current: Discipline levels are set by schools.
Proposed: Teachers are forbidden from striking children and may only use non-contact discipline (detention, expulsion etc).
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:46:36, August 23, 2005 CET | From | FTP | To | Debating the Education Reform Act 2100 |
| Message | If the kindoms budget can handle this, then are this good propositions. |
| Date | 00:51:52, August 24, 2005 CET | From | Alianse Progresivitāte | To | Debating the Education Reform Act 2100 |
| Message | 8 articles, 8 nos. |
| Date | 01:11:22, August 24, 2005 CET | From | Dolgar Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Education Reform Act 2100 |
| Message | 8 articles, 7 nos, 1 bemused thought of a possible idea that it might be good, 1 realization that that isn't NEAR enough for us to vote for this. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 99 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 145 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 33 |
| Random fact: Bill descriptions must be in English, or at least include a full English translation. Bill titles may appear in a language that is appropriate to the nation and are not required to be translated into English. |
| Random quote: "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." - Emma Goldman |