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Bill: Education Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Démocraties Libérales
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: May 3141
Description[?]:
| Démocraties Libérales believe it is time for change in our education system |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: 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.
Current: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Proposed: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Article 2
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 partially exempt.
Proposed: invalid choice
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:18:49, June 23, 2011 CET | From | Progressive Party | To | Debating the Education Act |
| Message | Stagnating our testing system is no way to treat the future of our youth. We cannot support this bill! |
| Date | 04:25:07, June 23, 2011 CET | From | Démocraties Libérales | To | Debating the Education Act |
| Message | Démocraties Libérales fail to see how national standardised testing will stagnate our testing system. |
| Date | 04:31:12, June 23, 2011 CET | From | Progressive Party | To | Debating the Education Act |
| Message | With all students currently needing to meet the same standards with no "strict" testing requirements, we see no reason to implement such a policy. |
| Date | 22:55:29, June 23, 2011 CET | From | Deltarian Liberal Movement | To | Debating the Education Act |
| Message | The Centre Unity would advise the viewing of the following piece of legislation: http://classic.particracy.net/viewbill.php?billid=321235 |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 73 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 150 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 149 |
| Random fact: References to prominent real-life persons are not allowed. This includes references to philosophies featuring the name of a real-life person (eg. "Marxism", "Thatcherism", "Keynesianism"). |
| Random quote: "If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say 'No' to war, for one does not create human society on mounds of corpses." - Louis Lecoin |