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Bill: Education Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Progressive Conservative Party
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 4322
Description[?]:
| A bill to change education policy |
Proposals
Article 1
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:: 16
Current: 16
Proposed: 18
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government does not subsidize tuition, students must pay for higher education themselves. This does not include scholarship programs.
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 Sexual education in schools.
Old value:: This decision is up to the schools themselves without government regulation.
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 4
Proposal[?] to change National Curriculum
Old value:: There is no National Curriculum; curriculum policies for all schools are determined on a local level by local governments.
Current: There is a National Curriculum which all schools are obliged to follow.
Proposed: There is a National Curriculum which all government schools are obliged to follow; non-government schools are partially exempt.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:47:50, December 22, 2017 CET | From |  Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Education Act |
| Message | The Libertarian Party shall be abstaining. |
| Date | 01:17:13, December 23, 2017 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Education Act |
| Message | Having been told this would negatively affect my visibility I shall no longer be abstaining xD |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 68 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 32 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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