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Bill: Education Reform Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Progressive 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: July 2131
Description[?]:
| To fundamentally reform the education system, spreading opportunity for all, and releasing the potential of all our children, form whatever backgorund. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Charter school policy (free, privately run, publicly funded schools).
Old value:: Charter schools are not allowed.
Current: Charter schools are not allowed.
Proposed: Charter schools must be non-profit and have a specific focus.
Article 2
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: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Proposed: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Secondary strike action.
Old value:: Any trade union can go on a sympathy strike in support of other striking workers.
Current: Secondary strike action is illegal. Workers and unions can only go on strike for their own pay and conditions.
Proposed: Secondary strike action is illegal. Workers and unions can only go on strike for their own pay and conditions.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Trade union strike ballots.
Old value:: Trade unions are not required by law to hold a ballot before striking.
Current: Trade unions must by law hold a ballot of all members before going on strike, a majority of all members, regardless of if they vote or not must approve the strike action.
Proposed: Trade unions must by law hold a ballot of all members before going on strike, majority approval of those that vote is needed from its members.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:36:59, October 25, 2005 CET | From |  Ogden Sinclair Party | To | Debating the Education Reform Bill |
| Message | OSP agrees with that education for the majority must be free, bu secondary strikes are too sacred a cow for this weak bill to gain a yes! |
| Date | 22:03:22, October 25, 2005 CET | From |  Islamic Nationalist Front | To | Debating the Education Reform Bill |
| Message | OOC: I've already said this, but I want Ogden to hear this too: Please don't lump together different proposals in one bill. It's much more considerate of other parties (not to mention it increases your chances of SOME of the proposals passing) to separate them out into different bills. |
| Date | 22:48:01, October 25, 2005 CET | From | Jakanian Liberal Socialists | To | Debating the Education Reform Bill |
| Message | (Agreed with COS here. I'd vote in favour of the first two proposals, but not the last two. Seperating them individually would be a good step forward) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 234 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 16 |
| Random fact: "Treaty-locking", or ratifiying treaties that completely or nearly completely forbid any proposals to change laws, is not allowed. Amongst other possible sanctions, Moderation reserves the discretion to delete treaties and/or subject parties to a seat reset if this is necessary in order to reverse a treaty-lock situation. |
| Random quote: "A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back, but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you." - Marian Wright Edelman |