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Bill: Educational Reform Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Progressive 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: April 4555
Description[?]:
| By selling our public schooling infrastructuur to private companies we have money available for subsidizing the cost for everyone. By handling a national curriculum we make sure that quality is assured. Furthermore the government will regulate prices strictly so they remain low. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change National Curriculum
Old value:: There is no National Curriculum; the curriculum is set by the schools themselves.
Current: There is a National Curriculum which all government schools are obliged to follow; non-government schools are fully exempt
Proposed: There is a National Curriculum which all schools are obliged to follow.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: 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.
Current: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Proposed: Education is private, but the government subsidises the cost of it for everyone
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:33:16, April 02, 2019 CET | From |  Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Educational Reform Bill |
| Message | Article 2 is literally selling off the future of our children to corporate powers. We will not tolerate this. |
| Date | 20:39:06, April 02, 2019 CET | From | Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Educational Reform Bill |
| Message | We would like someone to explain to us what is progrsssive about eliminating public schools. |
| Date | 20:57:22, April 02, 2019 CET | From | Progressive Party | To | Debating the Educational Reform Bill |
| Message | Eliminating public schools means we have more money to use so we can provide schooling for every Solentian child. Aren't we exaggerating a bit? Selling off the future? Looks like the SDP is stuck in the old left-right thinking? With article 1 we guarantee the quality of our schooling system. As the bill is also saying "Furthermore the government will regulate prices strictly so they remain low." This means "corporate power" will bow to the goverments rules and not otherwise |
| Date | 21:49:33, April 02, 2019 CET | From | Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Educational Reform Bill |
| Message | Why can’t we have universal public education for everyone? For profit education produces a market failure. I don’t care if this idea is left or right. This idea is just genuinely bad for our citizens. |
| Date | 04:17:32, April 03, 2019 CET | From | Republican Party | To | Debating the Educational Reform Bill |
| Message | We support Article II of this measure. However, we are opposed to the institutionalization of mandatory national educational standards. |
| Date | 06:56:00, April 03, 2019 CET | From | Progressive Party | To | Debating the Educational Reform Bill |
| Message | The problem with universal public education for everyone is the cost. By giving this topic private companies the goverment can subsidize it for everyone. |
| Date | 19:56:48, April 03, 2019 CET | From | Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Educational Reform Bill |
| Message | There’s much more overhead costs for the private sector. Our party would ban private schools, actually. |
| Date | 00:13:27, April 04, 2019 CET | From | Progressive Party | To | Debating the Educational Reform Bill |
| Message | The private sector is known for more efficiency than the government. That is why we better outsource this. With strict regulations, we can reduce costs here, which frees up more money to invest in our youth. We of the progressives regret that the SDP continues to think in such old standards. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 72 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 28 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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