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Bill: Codifying Affirmative Action Regulation Devolution and Injuction - Bill (CAARDI-B) Act of 4424
Details
Submitted by[?]: New Liberal Party of Hutori
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: November 4424
Description[?]:
| A bill to allow positive discrimination in public education. The bill empowers localities to allow selective schools, private schools, and public and private universities to implement positive discrimination schemes for the purpose of desegregation and increasing diversity in the classroom. Therefore, Affirmative Action in this case applies only to educational admissions and not hiring practices. A ban on positive discrimination in hiring will still be in effect across the nation, but localities will be given the power to determine whether their schools and universities allow affirmative action. OOC: What I really want to propose is a national option for AA in university admissions and nothing else, but none of the options I saw were conducive, so this has to end up as a more "federalisty" bill than "civil rightsy" bill. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Positive discrimination.
Old value:: No form of positive discrimination is permitted.
Current: The government encourages positive discrimination and enforces it for government hiring.
Proposed: Hiring policies are regulated by local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:42:06, July 15, 2018 CET | From | New Liberal Party of Hutori | To | Debating the Codifying Affirmative Action Regulation Devolution and Injuction - Bill (CAARDI-B) Act of 4424 |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, I rise to introduce CAARDI-B. The New Liberals are very proud of this bill. We think it both moves the country closer to equity in government while also empowering localities and provinces to make their own education policy. We believe that Affirmative Action is a form of talent identification. The Mashacara and low-income individuals repeatedly score lower on standardized tests than those in the middle-class Luthori majority due to a long history of societal impediments to their success. We believe that positive discrimination offers a way to identify talented underrepresented minority groups for admission to our great universities and selective schools. Furthermore, we believe that localities under whose responsibility education policy often falls should make the decisions governing such policies. Should the province of Kenai want to allow affirmative action in education, it should not be prohibited from doing so by Adelia and Sutton. I want to stress that this bill applies only to admissions in education. It does not apply to hiring practices. I hope CAARDI-B will have your support. We must tackle the issue of educational inequality. We can't dance around it any more; we must make money moves. By that I mean the level of government responsible with paying for education must be empowered to make policy changes that improve educational equity. Vote for CAARDI-B! Jim O'Neill MP for Acton Gardens Minister of Education and Culture |
| Date | 22:26:26, July 15, 2018 CET | From | Hutori Party | To | Debating the Codifying Affirmative Action Regulation Devolution and Injuction - Bill (CAARDI-B) Act of 4424 |
| Message | OOC: you really went with Caardi-b eh? Lol |
| Date | 22:30:42, July 15, 2018 CET | From | Hutori Party | To | Debating the Codifying Affirmative Action Regulation Devolution and Injuction - Bill (CAARDI-B) Act of 4424 |
| Message | Mr Speaker, The Conservative Caucus does not believe that any form of discrimination, no matter what the left says, is "positive". People should earn their post-secondary enrollment based on merit, not just because they fill a quota. We will not support this bill. Dylan Jourdain MP for Fairview Prosperity Minister of Finance Chairman of the Conservative Caucus |
| Date | 23:12:00, July 15, 2018 CET | From | New Liberal Party of Hutori | To | Debating the Codifying Affirmative Action Regulation Devolution and Injuction - Bill (CAARDI-B) Act of 4424 |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, No one is arguing for quotas. That would suggest that a certain number of "slots" for admission must be filled by students of a specific class or tribal status. We do not want that either! We simply want localities to be able to decide whether tribal status and socioeconomic status can be *considered* in admissions decisions. In my time talking with university administrators in my district I have found that there are more qualified students than there are spots at our most elite universities. This bill would allow localities to empower universities to consider Mashacara status and socioeconomic status in their decisions about which students to fill those slots. Jim O'Neill MP for Acton Gardens Minister of Education and Culture OOC: Of course I went with CAARDI-B. Sad no one has picked up on the Bodak Yellow pun yet! |
| Date | 13:30:04, July 16, 2018 CET | From | Hutori Party | To | Debating the Codifying Affirmative Action Regulation Devolution and Injuction - Bill (CAARDI-B) Act of 4424 |
| Message | Mr Speaker, So would the honourable Minister of Education & Culture like to be the one who would have to tell a straight A student, who is finishing high school, that they won't be admitted to the elite university that they had dreamed of going to, and worked so hard to get to, because another student who had lower grades got in based off of their gender or race? The left likes to believe that racism is only racism if it is directed at a minority, and sexism is only sexism if it is directed at women. Racism and sexism go both ways and the Conservative caucus won't stand for any of it. We strongly oppose this bill and hope some of our colleagues who are supporting it will change their minds. Dylan Jourdain MP for Fairview Prosperity Minister of Finance Chairman of the Conservative Caucus |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 211 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 148 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 46 |
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