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Bill: Aesthetic bill 2499 "Education Reform"
Details
Submitted by[?]: "Le Chaim" - Aesthetic 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 2500
Description[?]:
| "When it comes to education we have to guarantee quality and humaneness. Education, the future of our children and therefore the future of our nation and our world's intellectual life, education is far too important and fragile to leave it to the private sector or the arbitrariness of several people. Therefore we propose this reform of our education system..." Adam Horvitz, party leader |
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: Only non-profit organizations may establish charter schools.
Proposed: Charter schools must be non-profit and have a specific focus.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Education for children under adult age.
Old value:: Education is compulsory, but home schooling is permitted.
Current: Education is compulsory, but home schooling is permitted.
Proposed: Education is compulsory and has to happen at school.
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 provides local governments with funding to operate higher educational institutions.
Proposed: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: Education is private, but the government issues vouchers to pay for the schooling of disadvantaged children.
Current: Education is a matter of local governments.
Proposed: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Sexual education in schools.
Old value:: This decision is up to the schools themselves without government regulation.
Current: Schools have an obligation to give sexual education at some point in puberty, but individual students have an opt-out option.
Proposed: Schools have an obligation to give sexual education at some point in puberty.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The teacher's right to discipline children.
Old value:: Discipline levels are set by schools.
Current: Teachers are forbidden from striking children and may only use non-contact discipline (detention, expulsion etc).
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 | 17:16:17, December 11, 2007 CET | From | Royalist Confederacy | To | Debating the Aesthetic bill 2499 "Education Reform" |
| Message | Homeschooling is much more effective! |
| Date | 17:20:22, December 11, 2007 CET | From | "Le Chaim" - Aesthetic Party | To | Debating the Aesthetic bill 2499 "Education Reform" |
| Message | Says who? |
| Date | 23:45:10, December 11, 2007 CET | From | Royalist Confederacy | To | Debating the Aesthetic bill 2499 "Education Reform" |
| Message | Says the results of the research on this topic... aaah whatever if you want to find out something I assume that you are able to use google or something... |
| Date | 12:51:52, December 12, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Nationalists Party | To | Debating the Aesthetic bill 2499 "Education Reform" |
| Message | There are too many Articles here. I agree with a few. You should split it up. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 156 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 104 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 41 |
| Random fact: Particracy has 464 player slots. |
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