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Bill: Education Reform of 3901
Details
Submitted by[?]: Conquest Party of Valruzia
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: June 3902
Description[?]:
| 1) Charter Schools are a waste of tax payer money. We don't need a middle man bureaucracy between taxpayer funded schools and our students. The money saved will be used to increase teacher salaries to attract better people to the profession. 2) Privatizing Higher Education will enable our Universities to be more creative and more specialized. This will jump start innovation in Valruzia. All government owned places of Higher Education will be incorporated and sold on the stock exchanges, or they will be allowed to be purchased by private investors who are knowledgeable in Administration of Higher Education. The Minister of Finance and the Minister of Education will work together to ensure this process runs effectively and efficiently. 3) Once students reach adulthood they will no longer be required to attend school. At this point in their lives, they can choose to move on to higher education, if qualified, or they must serve their compulsory military service within 2 years of leaving school. 4) Children are proud to sing our national anthem. 5) Parents are responsible for taking care of their children, not the government. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Charter school policy (free, privately run, publicly funded schools).
Old value:: Only non-profit organizations may establish charter schools.
Current: Only non-profit organizations may establish charter schools.
Proposed: Charter schools are not allowed.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Higher education institutions.
Old value:: The government maintains a system of universities, vocational schools, and colleges nationwide.
Current: The government maintains a system of universities, vocational schools, and colleges nationwide.
Proposed: The government does not maintain any forms of higher education.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The age until which students, if education were to be compulsary, are required to be educated (limited between 16 and 21).
Old value:: 21
Current: 16
Proposed: 16
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Singing the national anthem in schools.
Old value:: Children are not made to sing the national anthem, but are required to show respect when it is played at the commencement of school each day.
Current: Children are only made to sing the national anthem on special occasions.
Proposed: Children are made to sing the national anthem at the commencement of school each day.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Pre-school education.
Old value:: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nursery and pre-school educational centres.
Current: The government leaves development of nurseries to the private sector.
Proposed: The government leaves development of nurseries to the private sector.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:25:24, September 03, 2015 CET | From | Partia Stabilnego Rozwoju | To | Debating the Education Reform of 3901 |
| Message | Regarding Article 3 (our stance on the first two is known), do you really believe that age of 16 is a good age to decide about higher education. Please reconcile, remember how "mature" you were at the age of 16... |
| Date | 22:26:32, September 03, 2015 CET | From | Conquest Party of Valruzia | To | Debating the Education Reform of 3901 |
| Message | Since our party has been in power, the Education Ministry has worked wonders. In general, students are ready to make the transition into our Military. Those who go to higher education instead, can then, upon graduation, begin their military service, usually as officers. |
| Date | 11:54:36, September 04, 2015 CET | From | Partia Stabilnego Rozwoju | To | Debating the Education Reform of 3901 |
| Message | Please, give me at least one exapmle of such "wonders". Yes, they begin the military service and become mindless military officers with no knowledge and ideas about the world whatsoever. You know that this way, you're only hurting the military, right? |
| Date | 16:57:13, September 04, 2015 CET | From | Conquest Party of Valruzia | To | Debating the Education Reform of 3901 |
| Message | For you to insult our men and women in uniform us an aberration. Education continues once our youth enter the military. They learn specialized skills such as Electrical training, leadership, ect. Our studemts who graduate our public high schools, at 16, are generally well prepaired for specialized military training. Once out of the military, this training helps our citizens become exellent, disciplined, and motivated entrepanuers and members of the work force. An example of the changes we have made is we have set a curriculum and refocused spending away from the wasted beurocracy of charter schools and have put that money directly in the hands of teachers for them to spend on materials. We have also incresed their wages so we attract the best teachers. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 63 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 12 | |||
| 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: "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." - Woodrow Wilson |