SENATE BILL: The Duke-Scott Educating The People Reform (Debating)

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

NAY

Certainly, at the very least, conditions could be attached to the monies given and carry some weight with those conditions.

I tried that approach already with an amendment, and it failed.  As it is now, the money in Section 1 is conditional on whether federal bureaucrats feel like taking the option of handing it out, but the onus on the school districts to comply with this law is not optional.  How is that right?

I guess we can go threaten to take all their federal funding away if they can't come up with the money to meet these mandates, but isn't that just a little perverse?

[Cincinnatus]

This is one Nay vote away from failing.  Still another day left to vote.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

NAY

Certainly, at the very least, conditions could be attached to the monies given and carry some weight with those conditions.

I tried that approach already with an amendment, and it failed.  As it is now, the money in Section 1 is conditional on whether federal bureaucrats feel like taking the option of handing it out, but the onus on the school districts to comply with this law is not optional.  How is that right?

I guess we can go threaten to take all their federal funding away if they can't come up with the money to meet these mandates, but isn't that just a little perverse?

Not all their funding, but perhaps just all their education funding.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

NAY

Certainly, at the very least, conditions could be attached to the monies given and carry some weight with those conditions.

I tried that approach already with an amendment, and it failed.  As it is now, the money in Section 1 is conditional on whether federal bureaucrats feel like taking the option of handing it out, but the onus on the school districts to comply with this law is not optional.  How is that right?

I guess we can go threaten to take all their federal funding away if they can't come up with the money to meet these mandates, but isn't that just a little perverse?

Not all their funding, but perhaps just all their education funding.

Okay so we are going to take away the federal funding for school lunches because they don't hire tutors, at the same time as we are mandating the provision of school lunches?   Which Senator are we going to appoint to go to schools around the country and explain the logic behind that one?

[Adam Griffin]

Nay

[Cincinnatus]

Vote on Amendment 61:? by shua:

Aye (3): DC, Goldwater, and shua
Nay (6): Griffin, Yankee, TNF, Lumine, Tyrion, and bore
Abstain (1):

Didn't Vote (1): Alfred

The amendment has been rejected.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

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[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

I am fine with the amendment. I'm not in the business of punishing underfunded schools for non-compliance.

[Lumine]

Amendment friendly, as the President pointed out.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

My big goal with this initial bill is mainly to expand the access of technology to all our public schools. It's the 21st century. We need a 21st century educational system. I'd LOVE to tackle the textbook industry in general and shift from paper to electronic books that allow more interaction, but perhaps that is biting off too much at once.

[Cincinnatus]

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Feedback: Friendly
Status: 24 hours to object.

[Cincinnatus]

Amendment 61:17 has been adopted.

[TNF]

What's the current text look like?

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

I'm surprised this has taken so long. I released part I first because I thought it would pass rather quickly..

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I might have missed some chnages to section 1 but I think those amendments all failed.

[TNF]

I think that's missing the amendment I added that required on-site daycare.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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[Cincinnatus]

Are we ready for an up and down vote, or is there more we need to work out?

[TNF]

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[Lumine]

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The number seems reasonable to me in light of the potential expenses, but I'd like to see some opinions before declaring it friendly, just to make sure the support is there.

[Cincinnatus]

That's why there's an objection period after you give feedback Lumine..

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I am worried that the total price tag of this might push rather high with 5 and 5. How much are all the grants going to cost?

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

how expensive is a WiFi network for a  school?

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

This is where having a GM would come in handy, or some form to find the answers to these questions. Maybe Simfan can help us!