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Bill: Education Reform Act 2987
Details
Submitted by[?]: Social Justice 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: November 2987
Description[?]:
| This bill is to allow freedom in the education both for individuals and for each state in the Federation, whilst ensuring that standards are sufficient so that each student receives a high-class, quality education. Leonie Muller Minister for Education |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Education for children under adult age.
Old value:: Education is compulsory and has to happen at school.
Current: Education is entirely voluntary.
Proposed: Education is compulsory, but home schooling is permitted.
Article 2
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 does not fund any public higher education institutions, permitting only private higher education institutions to exist.
Proposed: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change National Curriculum
Old value:: invalid choice
Current: There is a National Curriculum which all government schools are obliged to follow; non-government schools are fully exempt
Proposed: invalid choice
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:57:59, August 20, 2010 CET | From | Sue's Corner | To | Debating the Education Reform Act 2987 |
| Message | A difficult one for us. We agree with Articles 1 and 3 but are strugling with Article 2. We shall lend our support. Margaret Ballantyne Shadow Education |
| Date | 14:14:30, August 20, 2010 CET | From | Coalition for National Unity [CNU] | To | Debating the Education Reform Act 2987 |
| Message | "The CMP reluctantly votes no on this proposal based on Articles 2 and 3. We feel that all children have the right to a school-environment with their peers and that parents do not have the right to prevent their children from enjoying such an environment. We also maintain that private higher education should remain self-regulating." Caroline Estenborough, Shadow Education Secretary. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 41 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 59 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: When elections in a country are held, all bills in the voting phase are reset to the debate phase. |
| Random quote: "Religion, like capitalism, will perish in the end. We estimate the complete Terra-wide extinction of Hosianism as a religious belief by the year 4409, and in Dorvik by 4398." - Friedrich Pfeiffer, former Dorvish politician |