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Bill: Education Reform Act of 2267
Details
Submitted by[?]: Radical-Revolutionary 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: September 2269
Description[?]:
| Once again, it's time to introduce a bill to save Alduria's children from the scourge of "private" influences. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Charter school policy (free, privately run, publicly funded schools).
Old value:: Charter schools must be non-profit and have a specific focus.
Current: Charter schools are not allowed.
Proposed: Charter schools are not allowed.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The regulation of higher education.
Old value:: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Current: The government does not allow private higher education institutions.
Proposed: The government does not allow private higher education institutions.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Pre-school education.
Old value:: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside heavily regulated private establishments.
Current: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nursery and pre-school educational centres.
Proposed: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nursery and pre-school educational centres.
Article 4
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: Education is entirely public and free; private schools are banned.
Proposed: Education is entirely public and free; private schools are banned.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The governments stance on religious schools.
Old value:: Any religion may set up a school, but they are strictly regulated.
Current: Religious schools are not allowed.
Proposed: Religious schools are not allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:19:41, August 11, 2006 CET | From | Bendiri Bandidos | To | Debating the Education Reform Act of 2267 |
| Message | For the main part, excellent proposals. If you wanted to please us any further however, the removal of Article #2 would surely send us into ecstatic convulsions !! |
| Date | 21:18:38, August 11, 2006 CET | From | Radical-Revolutionary Party | To | Debating the Education Reform Act of 2267 |
| Message | I'm not going to sacrifice the passage of the bill for the sake of outlawing Home Schooling, so I'll go ahead and strike it. |
| Date | 19:48:45, August 12, 2006 CET | From | Bendiri Bandidos | To | Debating the Education Reform Act of 2267 |
| Message | Yup, like it. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 125 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 94 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 65 |
| Random fact: "Treaty-locking", or ratifiying treaties that completely or nearly completely forbid any proposals to change laws, is not allowed. Amongst other possible sanctions, Moderation reserves the discretion to delete treaties and/or subject parties to a seat reset if this is necessary in order to reverse a treaty-lock situation. |
| Random quote: "A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity." - Sigmund Freud |