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Bill: Educational Reform Act of 4469
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Democratic Party (NDP)
Status[?]: defeated
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 4470
Description[?]:
| As part of the UDP's campaign promises, we introduce the following reforms in regards to our nation's education. |
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:: 18
Current: 16
Proposed: 16
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 fully subsidizes tuition.
Proposed: The government subsidizes higher education tuition to a certain amount, the rest is covered by the individual students. This includes scholarship programs.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on political education
Old value:: The Government requires all secondary school students to receive an advanced political education.
Current: The Government requires all secondary school students to receive a basic political education.
Proposed: The Government leaves political education policy to local governments.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: Education is a matter of local governments.
Current: Education is entirely private and schools run on a for-profit basis.
Proposed: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Sexual education in schools.
Old value:: This decision is up to the schools themselves without government regulation.
Current: Schools have an obligation to give sexual education at some point in puberty, but individual students have an opt-out option.
Proposed: Schools have an obligation to give sexual education at some point in puberty.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change National Curriculum
Old value:: There is a National Curriculum which all schools are obliged to follow.
Current: There is no National Curriculum; the curriculum is set by the schools themselves.
Proposed: There is no National Curriculum; curriculum policies for all schools are determined on a local level by local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:35:08, October 15, 2018 CET | From | Government of Tropica | To | Debating the Educational Reform Act of 4469 |
| Message | Mr speaker Can we get an explaination as to why the current intent to lower around which someone is supposed to educated, And there I though educating our youth and fighting agaisnt drop out was supposed to be priority Also, we do not understand the article on political education, But we will support this bill, even if we believe that the article on tuition does not fully recognize the rights of Baltusia to get an education no matter their bnackground or their wealth Aloy-Sophie Darklight |
| Date | 03:56:17, October 15, 2018 CET | From | Republican Party - Nationalists | To | Debating the Educational Reform Act of 4469 |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, While we would welcome our honorable colleagues to propose a separate bill with Articles 2 and 4 that we can back, we cannot support this legislation. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 194 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 275 | ||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: References to prominent real-life persons are not allowed. This includes references to philosophies featuring the name of a real-life person (eg. "Marxism", "Thatcherism", "Keynesianism"). |
| Random quote: "Under every stone lurks a politician." Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Thesmophoriazusae, 410 B.C |