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Bill: Educational Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Coalition
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: March 2251
Description[?]:
| In order to ensure that our children are better leaders than us, it is required that their education and upbringing is the best they can receive. The current educational laws favor business over the youth and, in effect, harm the youth for life. I want to make it possible for anyone who can get into college to go to college. This bill will do that. I want to make sure that children, in their youngest stages of live, have their minds and bodies molded by quality instructors. This bill will do that. I want to remove stressful testing as the primary indicator of educational skill for a child. Those tests create undue stress and disproportionally target minority children. This bill will change that. This bill is in line with what the Free Republic of Jelbania truly is and believes in and I am confident the ruling body will agree. |
Proposals
Article 1
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 does not subsidize tuition, students must pay for higher education themselves. This does not include scholarship programs.
Proposed: The government subsidizes higher education tuition to a certain amount, the rest is covered by the individual students. This includes scholarship programs.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Pre-school education.
Old value:: The government leaves the pre-school education policy to local governments.
Current: The government leaves the pre-school education policy to local governments.
Proposed: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside heavily regulated private establishments.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change National Curriculum
Old value:: invalid choice
Current: There is a National Curriculum which all schools are obliged to follow.
Proposed: invalid choice
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 09:17:09, July 06, 2006 CET | From |  Liberal Coalition | To | Debating the Educational Reform Act |
| Message | In order to ensure that our children are better leaders than us, it is required that their education and upbringing is the best they can receive. The current educational laws favor business over the youth and, in effect, harm the youth for life. I want to make it possible for anyone who can get into college to go to college. This bill will do that. I want to make sure that children, in their youngest stages of live, have their minds and bodies molded by quality instructors. This bill will do that. I want to remove stressful testing as the primary indicator of educational skill for a child. Those tests create undue stress and disproportionally target minority children. This bill will change that. This bill is in line with what the Free Republic of Jelbania truly is and believes in and I am confident the ruling body will agree. |
| Date | 12:13:31, July 06, 2006 CET | From | Jelbania Socialist Party | To | Debating the Educational Reform Act |
| Message | we agree |
| Date | 00:18:47, July 08, 2006 CET | From | Mjesrne | To | Debating the Educational Reform Act |
| Message | However, they will have no incentive to lead, as all their income from their jobs will have to be taxed off them to pay for this lunacy. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 148 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 477 |
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| Random quote: "We're the first society in history with the option of living in a world without poverty. The fact poverty still exist says more about our political leaders than I can." - Clint Borgen |