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Bill: Restoring Freedom: Education Reform Part II
Details
Submitted by[?]: Malivia Democratic 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: July 2225
Description[?]:
| Education reform part II |
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 introduces means tested loans for higher education tuition, to be paid back by students after earnings reach a certain amount.
Current: The government subsidizes tuition only for students from families classified as low-income or poor.
Proposed: The government subsidizes higher education tuition to a certain amount, the rest is covered by the individual students. This includes scholarship programs.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:33:59, May 08, 2006 CET | From | Malivianese Militarist Party | To | Debating the Restoring Freedom: Education Reform Part II |
| Message | We can agree with Article 2 only. The people can choose if they want to attend school after 16. If not, then that is their choice. It doesn't make them bad... sometimes additional schooling for certain jobs is not needed or required. So why waste two years of the people's lives? |
| Date | 03:47:01, May 09, 2006 CET | From |  Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Restoring Freedom: Education Reform Part II |
| Message | It prevents the poor from being forced out of school and get a job to support their families. The more education a person has the more choices they have in life. Education is never wasted. However we do not feel it should be strictly book learning, options for other styles of teaching should be permitted. |
| Date | 08:03:46, May 09, 2006 CET | From | Malivianese Militarist Party | To | Debating the Restoring Freedom: Education Reform Part II |
| Message | No one is forced out of school at age 16. It is only compulsory... |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 191 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 85 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 25 |
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