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Bill: Child Education Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Jakanian Liberal Socialists
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: January 2121
Description[?]:
| This bill seeks to provide free, high quality education to all children across the nation, and to ensure that all children are able to enter into society as adults with basic reading, writing and arithmetic skills, as well as the ability to think and form opinions for themselves. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Pre-school education.
Old value:: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside unregulated private establishments.
Current: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside heavily regulated private establishments.
Proposed: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside heavily regulated private establishments.
Article 2
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: 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 | 14:52:59, October 02, 2005 CET | From | Nudist Party of United Jakania | To | Debating the Child Education Bill |
| Message | I am assuming that you mean for the "heavy regulation to mean that there is a system of educational standards that each school must reach, and that each student must achieve? |
| Date | 15:34:01, October 02, 2005 CET | From |  Islamic Nationalist Front | To | Debating the Child Education Bill |
| Message | While the LP applauds the JLSP's efforts to improve education through charter schools, we would only support this move as a transitional step in privatizing public education. As it is clear that is not the JLSP's intent, we will not support this bill. |
| Date | 16:08:17, October 02, 2005 CET | From | Jakanian Liberal Socialists | To | Debating the Child Education Bill |
| Message | (I'm not sure myself what 'heavy regulation' entails, but none of the other options feature regulation of private schools. I think a degree of regulation is neccesary, just to prevent the obvious stuff like teaching of falsehoods to further specific agendas of whoever runs the school. Whether it means we have national standardised exams for students, I don't know. If it does, I'll probably campaign that it shouldn't be on the assinine scale found in the west IRL. Personally, I'd like to think we'd leave stuff like that to local governments) |
| Date | 19:09:26, October 02, 2005 CET | From | Jakanian Conservative Party | To | Debating the Child Education Bill |
| Message | No regulations (jakania is shortly about to become the international Libertarian dreamland....) |
| Date | 20:14:40, October 02, 2005 CET | From | Union of Leftist Thinkers | To | Debating the Child Education Bill |
| Message | The ULT is in full support of this bill. All Jakania's citizens must be given an equal opportunity to succeed based on their merits, not on whether or not they were privilaged enough to receive an education from a private school. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 171 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 79 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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