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Bill: Education reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: People Socialist Union
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: February 3845
Description[?]:
| This aims to give more children and teenagers access to both holistic and professional education. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Charter school policy (free, privately run, publicly funded schools).
Old value:: Charter school funding, regulation, and development is left up to local governments.
Current: Only non-profit organizations may establish charter schools.
Proposed: Charter schools must be non-profit and have a specific focus.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The regulation of higher education.
Old value:: The government provides local governments with funding to operate higher educational institutions.
Current: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Proposed: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Pre-school education.
Old value:: The government leaves development of nurseries to the private sector.
Current: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside heavily regulated private establishments.
Proposed: Pre-school education is private, but the government covers the schoolcosts of poor families.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:19:15, May 10, 2015 CET | From | Capitalist Working Families | To | Debating the Education reform |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, This bill is unnecessary because Rutania already provides FREE PRIVATE school education to the people. This bill take poor students out of good private schools at the expense of the taxpayers. |
| Date | 04:48:26, May 10, 2015 CET | From | People Socialist Union | To | Debating the Education reform |
| Message | Dear speaker, If our education is free, why would there be a need for homeschooling? |
| Date | 04:50:13, May 10, 2015 CET | From | People Socialist Union | To | Debating the Education reform |
| Message | Dear speaker, This is clearly because some of the children still do not have access to professional education, hence homeschooling still exist. |
| Date | 15:01:09, May 10, 2015 CET | From | The Socially Conservative Party | To | Debating the Education reform |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, The right to homeschool is a right that should not be taken away. Any suggestion that it is only poor people who can't afford education costs who homeschool, is quite frankly a deliberate attempt to mislead this Parliament. What does this Bill actually do? It pushes up spending, but still allows private schools, which under the current system is SUBSIDIZED by the Government already. It forces local Governments to bend to the will of the central Government, rather than allow the local governments to do what is right for the local people. The only decent thing in this Bill is that there would be some sort of subsidization for poor families in relation to pre-school. This is a noble ideal and brings our school system in line with pre-schools. Why is it that parties like the People Socialist Union have to hide one good decent policy, that would most likely have cross-party support, behind a pile of rubbish policies? |
| Date | 15:53:00, May 11, 2015 CET | From | Rutanian Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Education reform |
| Message | Mr speaker, This bill is a great bill. Although we oppose charter schools as they aren't good, we support this as a step towards centralization which is a key part of our platform. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 326 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 229 |
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