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Bill: Education Reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Party of Davostan
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 3988
Description[?]:
| Prologue: The government cannot own any part of our economy, that is a key issue we hold dear and we aim to use this aim to turn this nation back to greatness again! Articles. 1. All government owned education and school facilities are to be sold to private companies or made independent of the government. 2. No education of school facility can receive funding unless a case-by-case basis is performed and the following criteria is met. 2.1 The school or education facility is in a dire situation, to be defined by an independent inspection unit. 2.2 The school or education facility agrees to use the funding to promote education and fix agreed upon issues. 2.3 The school or education facility is forbidden to use the funding for non-educational means. 2.4 The school or education facility is forbidden from contracting any spending without government approval. Approval will be determined by the Education and Culture minister or the Local Government. 3. Families and households with poor income levels can apply for an education subsidy grant. To receive a subsidy grant the following criteria must be met. 3.1 The student of the receiving family or household agrees to perform highly in their education, the subsidy grant can be denied if the students grading is poor or below average. 3.2 The student of the receiving family or household agrees to attend all mandatory lessons (as determined by the national curriculum and the school in question), the subsidy grant can be denied if the student fails to attend a class without a justified reasoning for missing the lesson, as detailed below. 3.21 The student of the receiving family or household must be too sick, ill or for medical reasons cannot attend class, as determined by a qualified medical professional. 3.22 The student of the receiving family or household is attending a family, religious or ideological event. 3.3 The student of the receiving family or household can only use the grant to aid their education, whether this is purchasing tuition or tuition assets (stationary, textbooks etc.) 3.4 For a family or household to be qualified for a subsidy grant, they must meet the following criteria. 3.41 The family or household has a family member below the ages of 18 attending an education facility that requires an attendance fee. 3.42 The family or household has an income level below the taxed income level. 3.43 The student of the receiving family or household is not in any full or part time work placement, this does not include work experience, apprenticeships or other educational work placements. 3.5 The family or household can appeal to the local government and authorities for an exception to the above acceptance criteria. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government funding for private schools.
Old value:: Private educational institutions receive no government funding whatsoever.
Current: Private schools are given funding on a case-by-case basis.
Proposed: Private schools are given funding on a case-by-case basis.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Current: 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.
Proposed: Education is private, but the government issues vouchers to pay for the schooling of disadvantaged children.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:37:46, February 22, 2016 CET | From |  Common Sense Conservative Party | To | Debating the Education Reform |
| Message | We vehemently oppose this bill |
| Date | 18:04:53, February 22, 2016 CET | From | Liberal Party of Davostan | To | Debating the Education Reform |
| Message | Why? |
| Date | 09:57:16, February 23, 2016 CET | From | Common Sense Conservative Party | To | Debating the Education Reform |
| Message | With many of our members having attended public schools and seen the good they do, we are hesitant to eleminate the public school system. While we are a conservative small government party, we believe education is a legitimate duty where the state can and should legitimately offer a public "free" alternative to private schools which are pricey. We acknowledge there is no such thing as truly free but for many people it is better from an economic perspective to pay taxes and send their kid to public school rather than pay high private school tuition. Furthermore, we are totally against govemrments funding private schools, that goes against the very nature of the idea of a private school. |
| Date | 10:17:13, February 23, 2016 CET | From | Liberal Party of Davostan | To | Debating the Education Reform |
| Message | "we believe education is a legitimate duty where the state can and should legitimately offer..." - Does this include a national curriculum? Private education is the better option, sure there is the downside that the citizen has to pay for it directly, which is why we have the education subsidy grant which allows poorer families and students to actually attend an education. If a seemingly free alternative is offered, how can the private sector compete? This is the dilemma private schools in this nation face because we have a public and private sector system. This leads to the dilemma that whether it would be profitable enough to start up a private school if the students in the area are just going to go to a "free" version of their school. You understand free market economics more than anyone in the senate, you understand that if a cheaper option is available, the population will more than likely prefer that option even if the product or service is ultimately more worse than a product or service you have to pay more for. Public education, in my eyes, are worse because they offer less incentive for an attendee to improve their education as there is no personal finances going into the system, leading to parents who have less incentive to expect more from their children or involve themselves in their children's education because they are expecting the school to perform it all, this'll in turn lead to lazier and more uneducated students than private sector students. |
| Date | 02:50:32, February 24, 2016 CET | From | al-Anṣār fi Dāvostan | To | Debating the Education Reform |
| Message | Once again the liberal elite are throwing the education of our children to the dogs! Disgusting. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 278 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 222 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: "Treaty-locking", or ratifiying treaties that completely or nearly completely forbid any proposals to change laws, is not allowed. Amongst other possible sanctions, Moderation reserves the discretion to delete treaties and/or subject parties to a seat reset if this is necessary in order to reverse a treaty-lock situation. |
| Random quote: "The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us, but we don't ask for their love, only for their fear." - Heinrich Himmler |