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Bill: Educational Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Lodamun Labour 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 4422
Description[?]:
| Members of the Presidium, The cabinet wants to reform our education system. We want to introduce more freedoms in our educational system, while we guarantee the level of our education. We want to change the following: 1. The cabinet wants to ban homeschooling. Education will keep on being compulsory but the cabinet wants this to happen at the schools. Only this way we can guarantee the level of education. 2. We want to allow for the option to follow private higher education. We believe that this adds to the different opitions of education for the future of Lodamun. It allows parents and their childeren to find a school that fits them. 3. We want to allow heavily regulated private nursery establishments alongside public ones. This to expand the choice for parents. 4. Currently there is a free public education system alongside private schools, we want to regulate private education more to ensure they teach adequate skills and information. 5. We want to make sure that the schools follow a national standard, for this we want private schools only to be partially exempt. This allows for them to still keep their distinctive character. Mica Scott Minister of Education and Culture |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Education for children under adult age.
Old value:: Education is compulsory, but home schooling is permitted.
Current: Education is compulsory and has to happen at school.
Proposed: Education is compulsory and has to happen at school.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The regulation of higher education.
Old value:: The government does not allow private higher education 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 maintains a system of free publically owned nursery and pre-school educational centres.
Current: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nursery and pre-school educational centres.
Proposed: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside heavily regulated private establishments.
Article 4
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: 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.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change National Curriculum
Old value:: There is a National Curriculum which all government schools are obliged to follow; non-government schools are fully exempt
Current: There is a National Curriculum which all government schools are obliged to follow; non-government schools are partially exempt.
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 | 22:40:26, July 10, 2018 CET | From | Progressive Socialist Party | To | Debating the Educational Reform Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, As the minister mentioned, this has been discussed lengthily within the cabinet, and its members stand behind the accord struck today. Therefore the PSP will support this comprehensive educational reform effort. the PSP will vote in favour of this bill. Phileus Grant Spokesperson on Education, PSP |
| Date | 23:25:48, July 10, 2018 CET | From | Liberal Progressives | To | Debating the Educational Reform Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, This is outrageous! We have the Presidium for a reason and that reason is to make sure everyone has a say about what happens with regard to laws in this country! That the PSP and the LLP just usher trough their own back-room deals cannot be allowed to stand. Even if parties have a majority of the seats in the Presidium, they ought to let the different parties debate a bill. I strongly urge the LLP to retract this bill and reintroduce it for all parties to debate in order to let our people keep their faith in the people they elect to represent themselves! We will vote against this bill on principal, for it represents a clear breach of parliamentary etiquette, which is a practice that should never be encouraged. Zoey Rosefield, Leader of the Liberal Progressives |
| Date | 23:29:31, July 10, 2018 CET | From | Liberal Progressives | To | Debating the Educational Reform Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, What I failed to address in my previous statement, but should mention nonetheless, is the reason this bill has been brought to the floor wothout debate: the parties in government are so afraid their coalition willl not survive the coming elections that they want to push through this legislation at the last movement. They had three more months to debate this bill, but chose not to, out of fear they might miss the voting deadline and would have to reintroduce the bill at a less ideal time (for them). This is a selfish act of political opportunism and should be strongly condemned by all parties. Zoey Rosefield, Leader of the Liberal Progressives |
| Date | 00:51:39, July 11, 2018 CET | From | National-Socialist Lodamun Workers Party | To | Debating the Educational Reform Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, While recognizing the concerns expressed by the leader of the Liberal Progressives; the National-Socialist Lodamun Workers Party does not let parliamentary etiquette stand in the way of an opportunity to build a stronger nation. John Miller, Leader of the National-Socialist Lodamun workers Party |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 318 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 281 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Particracy has been running since 2005. Dorvik was Particracy's first nation, the Dorvik Social Democrats the first party and the International Greens the first Party Organisation. |
| Random quote: "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson |