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Bill: Education Act Article 2: Nursery Education
Details
Submitted by[?]: We Say So! 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: January 2570
Description[?]:
| In order to guarantee the provision of education to children below that of school age the Government shall operate a nationwide system of free public nurseries to provide child care and pre-school education to our young people. They will operate alongside heavily regulated Private sector nurseries for those wishing to send their children to said facilities. These facilities will also operate as child care for parents who wish to return to work after the birth of their child(ren). The introduction of this act will allow for the standardisation of national education whilst also guaranteeing educational standards and government expenditure being used to support the people rather than unregulated private companies. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Pre-school education.
Old value:: Pre-school education is private, but the government covers the schoolcosts of poor families.
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.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:00:25, April 30, 2008 CET | From |  Conservative Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Education Act Article 2: Nursery Education |
| Message | The CNP expresses its great concern that this bill will create an unnecessary strain on our tax-paying citizens. Not all parents wish to send their children to pre-school, and those people should not be held accountable for the financial burden that this policy change would place on our country. Even though we carry no seats, the CNP will oppose this bill. |
| Date | 23:31:31, April 30, 2008 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Education Act Article 2: Nursery Education |
| Message | We understand the position of our honourable new colleagues of the CNP but we must point out that the current regulations already force tax payers to subsidise the cost of private industry whilst forcing others who may wish to work to not take up employment due to an inability to afford early years education. Such a position is unfair and, undeniably, expensive and harmful to the economy. It is through changing those rules and using the money already being used to subsidise the cost of private industry to operate a public industry answerable to the people through their elected representitives that we will reduce the burden in the long term on the tax payer and improve the education for all. |
| Date | 00:07:25, May 01, 2008 CET | From | Conservative Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Education Act Article 2: Nursery Education |
| Message | We would like to clarify that our opposition to this bill does not signal that we are satisfied with the current policy our country possesses on this particular issue. As we said before, we do not believe that the average Hobrazian citizen should bear the burden for a particular program that is optional, unnecessary in the eyes of many, and utilized by a small minority of the population. Without competition from public pre-schools, along with the absence of excessive government regulation, our private pre-schools will be able to survive without government subsidies, just as their counterparts in other nations have. |
| Date | 07:54:33, May 01, 2008 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Education Act Article 2: Nursery Education |
| Message | We do not believe that the numbers utilsing pre-school education is so small. Moreover, without regulations there can be no guarantees of quality of educational standards or provisions and whilst we have no doubt of the survival of private nursery establishments, either with or without these regulations, we cannot guarantee quality of service, something the private sector routine fails to provide in regards pre-school education. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes |
Total Seats: 141 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 148 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 48 |
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