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Bill: Education Reform 4018
Details
Submitted by[?]: Party of the People of Baltusia
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 4019
Description[?]:
| The Government should not own schools, higher eduction institutions or pre-school. This should be left to the private sector. Of course, we understand some of our citizens do not have the economic means to pay for private schools. The Government should subsidize private eduction for those who can not pay it. This bills allows any child to go to a school they wish to go to. They can choose the school based on it's curriculum or any other reason. Choosing is the step to Freedom, and Baltusia is the nation of Freedom. |
Proposals
Article 1
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 2
Proposal[?] to change Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government fully subsidizes tuition.
Current: The government fully subsidizes tuition.
Proposed: The government subsidizes tuition only for students from families classified as low-income or poor.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Current: Education is entirely private and schools run on a for-profit basis.
Proposed: Education is private, but the government issues vouchers to pay for the schooling of disadvantaged children.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The regulation of higher education.
Old value:: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Current: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Proposed: The government does not fund any public higher education institutions, permitting only private higher education institutions to exist.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Singing the national anthem in schools.
Old value:: Children are only made to sing the national anthem on special occasions.
Current: Children are never made to sing the national anthem.
Proposed: Children are never made to sing the national anthem.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:01:06, April 24, 2016 CET | From | Baltusian Communist Pro-life Party | To | Debating the Education Reform 4018 |
| Message | The government let down our country, now, in the internal census, in 10 years, Baltusians will be classified as plain dump or ignorant or just stupid. |
| Date | 21:16:08, April 24, 2016 CET | From | National Front | To | Debating the Education Reform 4018 |
| Message | And all of the Baltusians listed as stupid or ignorant will be Communists. That does not surprise us. |
| Date | 01:12:37, April 26, 2016 CET | From | Baltusian Communist Pro-life Party | To | Debating the Education Reform 4018 |
| Message | Communists support education, unlike the right-wing coalition right now. Whose only argument are insults |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 432 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 169 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 149 |
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