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Bill: Repair our schools
Details
Submitted by[?]: Protectorate 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: September 2039
Description[?]:
| In an effort to repair a bloated educational system. School vouchers are proposed to allow disadvantaged families to send their children to more effective private schools. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Current: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Proposed: Education is private, but the government issues vouchers to pay for the schooling of disadvantaged children.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | not recorded | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Repair our schools |
| Message | Out of the question. Are you attempting to turn our nation into a third world dystopia? |
| Date | not recorded | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Repair our schools |
| Message | You must be joking!!!! |
| Date | not recorded | From |  Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Repair our schools |
| Message | Private schools consistently perform better then public in standardized tests. Private schools due this at lower cost then public. Private school teachers are paid better then public. Parents prefer to have a say in where their children go. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Repair our schools |
| Message | Comparing private and public schools is not comparing like for like, particularly as the demographics do not match and consequently neither do the funding comparisons. Your comparison is extremely bad social science. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Repair our schools |
| Message | There are several papers which take this matter into account and still determine that the private schools do better. Coleman, Hoffer, and Kilgore 1982; Peterson 1998. I will provide the papers later if desired. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Repair our schools |
| Message | One can look at the results in Milwaukee, wisconson or Florida for the results in school vouchers. Inproved graduation rates of poor or disadvantaged students. Improved school ratings on the schools loosing students to other schools. see http://www.schoolchoiceinfo.org/topics/item.cfm?id=39 |
| Date | not recorded | From | Social Republican Party | To | Debating the Repair our schools |
| Message | This has not been debated enough, and as such, we have not arrived at a comprimised. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Repair our schools |
| Message | I really didn't see a place for compromise here. We currently have public and private schools. Other possible movement would have been more regulation in the schools. There really was only one direction I could support. Correct me if I am missing something. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Repair our schools |
| Message | Good sense, that's what you're missing. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Repair our schools |
| Message | Please, lets stick to the question raised by the Sharrianic party. I am eager as always to here a arguement, as opposed to attacks. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Radical Centrists | To | Debating the Repair our schools |
| Message | Absolutely not. We do not oppose private schooling but this proposal is absurd. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Repair our schools |
| Message | What makes it absurd. Education is still available to all thanks to the voucher system which we can set at a high enough level that the middle class is not strained. We have not surrendered control of the requirements for education, since the private schools still must be licensed. We mearly hold schools accountable for their performance, and allow parents the ability to place their child in a school not bound by geography. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 11 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 60 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 18 |
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