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Bill: Education Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX
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 2074
Description[?]:
| Further reforms. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Education for children under adult age.
Old value:: Education is compulsory and has to happen at school.
Current: Education is entirely voluntary.
Proposed: Education is compulsory, but home schooling is permitted.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The regulation of higher education.
Old value:: The government does not allow private higher education institutions.
Current: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Proposed: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: Education is entirely public and free; private schools are banned.
Current: Education is entirely private and schools run on a for-profit basis.
Proposed: 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.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Singing the national anthem in schools.
Old value:: Children are made to sing the national anthem at the commencement of school each day.
Current: Children are never made to sing the national anthem.
Proposed: Children are only made to sing the national anthem on special occasions.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:47:37, June 30, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Conservative Party | To | Debating the Education Reform Act |
| Message | We have already proposed Article 3. Would it be possible for our bill continue? |
| Date | 01:57:03, June 30, 2005 CET | From |  Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Education Reform Act |
| Message | Why dont you just remove article 3 from your proposal, as this will move through faster? |
| Date | 02:18:51, June 30, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Conservative Party | To | Debating the Education Reform Act |
| Message | Agreed |
| Date | 07:28:51, June 30, 2005 CET | From | Hosengott Nationalists | To | Debating the Education Reform Act |
| Message | we are opposed to article four of this proposal and we should also set standards to homeschooled students however in the name of promoting an enlightened people we must agree |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 275 | |||||||
| no | Total Seats: 68 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 67 |
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| Random quote: "We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it." - John Sherman |