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Bill: Education Reform Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Jelbic New Liberal Party (JNLP)
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 3335
Description[?]:
| This bill seeks to make both lesser and higher education easier in Jelbania. First, this bill seeks to extend the educational program of our toddlers and infants to also include a pre-school program, funded by the government. Second, this bill amends the policy set forth concerning testing, and aims to place the creativity of a child ahead of their test scores. Third, this bill allows the government to subsidize the higher education for students from low-income families. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government introduces means tested loans for higher education tuition, to be paid back by students after earnings reach a certain amount.
Current: The government does not subsidize tuition, students must pay for higher education themselves. This does not include scholarship programs.
Proposed: The government subsidizes tuition only for students from families classified as low-income or poor.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change National Curriculum
Old value:: invalid choice
Current: There is a National Curriculum which all schools are obliged to follow.
Proposed: invalid choice
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:50:12, July 15, 2012 CET | From |  Jelbic New Liberal Party (JNLP) | To | Debating the Education Reform Bill |
| Message | The JNLP endorses this bill and sees it as a wonderful improvement to our education system. |
| Date | 17:24:58, July 15, 2012 CET | From | Jelbanian Democratic Party | To | Debating the Education Reform Bill |
| Message | The Freedom Party can openly agree with Article One, but will be opposed to Articles Two and Three. The current system already maintains a system of free and public nurseries which are also used a pre-school educational centres, in addition to allowing, under strict regulation, private establishments to exist and believe this system is fine as is. As well Standardized Testing for College entry is the easiest way of insuring properly prepared students are ready for the rigors of college and university. |
| Date | 17:52:36, July 15, 2012 CET | From | Jelbic New Liberal Party (JNLP) | To | Debating the Education Reform Bill |
| Message | Standardized testing is all well and good, but recent studies have shown that our nation's children are becoming nothing more than mindless drones, with no ability to think outside the box or incorporate creativity into their work. We will concede with Article Two, but we insist on Article Three, as we believe that the Jelbic Education system needs a spark of creative life in the otherwise dull school years of a child. Shadow Education Minister Melissa Fincher |
| Date | 18:46:55, July 15, 2012 CET | From | Jelbanian Democratic Party | To | Debating the Education Reform Bill |
| Message | The Freedom Party would like to know where the JNLP got the results of this so called studies for this, and wonders how the JNLP expects student creativity to factor in to college entry where the Professors are likely going to care less about student creativity and more about how productive they are on tests. Jennifer Burke Education Minister |
| Date | 20:15:38, July 15, 2012 CET | From | Jelbic New Liberal Party (JNLP) | To | Debating the Education Reform Bill |
| Message | The studies were done by an independent scientist group, and if you doubt the public's support for this measure, you may view our newsletter, where 35.6% of citizens are convinced of at least moderate extension of government responsibilities. It is our responsibility as representatives of the people to make sure that our children are well-educated, and at the same time we must make sure that our children grow up to make vital contributions to our culture and base of knowledge, and they can't do that if they are simply learning to fill in multiple choice bubbles and write in blanks. |
| Date | 21:22:30, July 15, 2012 CET | From | Jelbanian Democratic Party | To | Debating the Education Reform Bill |
| Message | OOC: I actually can't look at your Party Newspaper, for the record |
| Date | 21:53:43, July 15, 2012 CET | From | Jelbic New Liberal Party (JNLP) | To | Debating the Education Reform Bill |
| Message | OOC: Wow, I did not even notice that. Sorry. I conducted a poll. IC: We will not budge. Article 3 remains. |
| Date | 17:46:29, July 16, 2012 CET | From | Jelbanian Democratic Party | To | Debating the Education Reform Bill |
| Message | Then its a shame, the Freedom Party won't change it's stance. OOC: Next time copy and paste the Poll into here, its what I did when I was offering justification for abolishing the Monarchy |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |
| no | Total Seats: 427 | |
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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