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Bill: Education Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: AM Populist Social Democrats
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: August 2342
Description[?]:
To provide a free, equal, and secular education to all students, we propose the reforms listed within this bill. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Charter school policy (free, privately run, publicly funded schools).
Old value:: Charter schools must have a specific focus.
Current: Charter schools must be non-profit and have a specific focus.
Proposed: Charter school funding, regulation, and development is left up to local governments.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Current: 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.
Proposed: Education is entirely public and free; private schools are banned.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy with respect to prayer in schools.
Old value:: The government leaves this decision up to the schools themselves.
Current: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden, except in religious schools.
Proposed: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 22:36:26, January 09, 2007 CET | From | Permissive Social Union | To | Debating the Education Reform Act |
Message | No, in so many different ways. |
Date | 00:09:00, January 10, 2007 CET | From | AM Populist Social Democrats | To | Debating the Education Reform Act |
Message | Note by the way that we tried to permit charter schools as freely as possible, so as to allow them to be the alternative to public schools while allowing everyone equal access. There is no proposal that says that charter schools need neither to be non-profit nor to have a specific focus. We considered switching specific focus to non-profit, but we were not sure if this would lead to more or fewer charter schools. We point this out in debate to state that we do not have a problem with competition to the public school system, but we wish this competition to be charter schools, given that they are free, secular, and open equally to children with or without wealthy parents. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | |||
yes |
Total Seats: 113 | |||
no | Total Seats: 86 | |||
abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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