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Bill: New Education Standards
Details
Submitted by[?]: Srnkzi Knstat Prta
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: October 3553
Description[?]:
| This bill proposes restructuring our education system to shed much administrative, costs, and regulative burden. We feel that our current expensive and regulated education system cannot perform at peak potential so we popose relaxing regulations and administrative barriers to success. We also wish to see schools directed to teaching kids how to be creative and think critically instead of just focusing on how much they know. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Charter school policy (free, privately run, publicly funded schools).
Old value:: Charter schools must be non-profit and have a specific focus.
Current: Charter school funding, regulation, and development is left up to local governments.
Proposed: Charter schools must have a specific focus.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government fully subsidizes tuition.
Current: The government does not subsidize tuition, students must pay for higher education themselves. This does not include scholarship programs.
Proposed: The government introduces means tested loans for higher education tuition, to be paid back by students after earnings reach a certain amount.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Pre-school education.
Old value:: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside heavily regulated private establishments.
Current: The government leaves the pre-school education policy to local governments.
Proposed: Pre-school education is private, but the government covers the schoolcosts of poor families.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Sexual education in schools.
Old value:: Schools have an obligation to give sexual education at some point in puberty, but individual students have an opt-out option.
Current: This decision is up to the schools themselves without government regulation.
Proposed: Schools have an obligation to give sexual education at some point in puberty.
Article 5
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
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| Vote | Seats | |
| yes |
Total Seats: 300 | |
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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