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Cabinet passes Middle Education Act; continuing education reforms of Labour

May 5576 (backdated)

Fort William - Mr. Carrington's Cabinet has today scored a great victory in the Imperial Parliament, with lawmakers from both sides of the aisle voting in favour of the "Middle Education (Reform) Act, 5576", this Bill was tabled by the Secretary of State for Education, William Lawnford, to be the continuation of the National Labour Party's already enacted sweeping education reforms operated to the primary education sector. Her Majesty's Government wanted this piece of legislation to be "as minimally controversial as possible", as such, the Cabinet undertook a year-long process of constructively working with the Official Opposition in matters related to education and internal reform. The Secretary of State for Education, applying this policy to his reforms to the education system, which, in fact, would only be the continuation of the reforms enacted by former Education Secretary, Theodore Overbaugh and of the Pryce Ministry to improve the education system. The Education Secretary met with Opposition leaders to enacting an ambitious and acceptable bipartisan roadmap aimed at making adjustments to the Luthorian middle school system to allow it to be more efficient, in the light of the success of the sweeping reforms to the primary education system.

Many meetings were held in Parliament between the Opposition and Government, being held in the parliamentary framework as part of the "Parliamentary Committee on Education Reform", this Committee, composed of 14 members, both from the Senate and Diet has been created with the task of finding compromises to create the best Bill acceptable to both the Diet and Senate, acceptable to the Tories and Labour, alongside other smaller parties, and a Bill which would also create an efficiency and "humane" education system. The language, the prerogatives and effects of this Bill were all throughtly discussed and thought upon, according to the Office of the Department of Education, before coming up with the last Bill which was put forward to Parliament to make a final judgement in the manner of a debate and a vote in both Houses of Parliament. While the Bill's debate saw some difficulty in the first reading in the Imperial Diet, with numerous amendments being put forwards and debated by some smaller parties, especially left-leaning parties, yet after some whipping being made by the Opposition Chief Whip and all these parties have fallen back in line with the position of the Official Opposition on this subject, no further deliberations were nedded and the Bill passed through Parliament in a swift and orderly fashion.

The Bill that was passed tonight was a Bill which possess some provisions in regards to the planned reforms of the middle school education system, first of all, the middle school system, as it is today, has been reaffirmed to continue being the norm, with children coming from Year 7 to Year 11 being apart of the Middle School, now Secondary School system. This framework was also confirmed as being part of the "Secondary Education curriculum", which is a notation used by the Luthorian Government to differenciate the Primary Education curriculum and the Secondary one, as the former is more used throught nurseries and primary schools, while the former in secondary and high schools. These two curriculums also are the reason why both have separate Departments within the Department of Education for better management.

What this Bill entailed was the creation of a "normal time", for school to happen during Secondary School, that being between 9:00 AM to 5:00 AM, with offers of transport being put in place by Ducal Governments to accompany every single children home if living afar from their place of residence. The encouragement of such transports is meant to reduce people's dependencies on cars by allowing replacements to be available, while far from the Government's objective to reduce cars usage, quite the contrary in fact, it is hoped that such policy would meant that no child is "left behind" by the fact of their car ownership.

Also within this Bill was the creation of a state-sponsored national test at the end of every Year 6's school year that would notify if they were "worth" passing from primary to secondary schools. With this new exam being put in place, teachers would receive more powers in the decision-making process of a schoolchildren's passage in a superior class, with a professor having the power of writing down "warning" address to the school headmaster's office about one student which could cost them the chance of participating in that exam if they are in Year 6, although, if a warning is sent, the Headmaster would only have the power to "review" the warning and pass it on to superior level in the education hierarchy. That exam known as the "S-Level Exam" is meant to bring all students, yet to keep in primary schools those who shows "significant gap in level" compared to their schoolmates to continue their progression until they reach a "satisfactory level". Speaking of exams, the Government and Opposition agreed on the creation of "weekly exam" in every classes that students are taking part, more to follow after the Education Secretary's announcements.

Students would be given out the choice to choose between 3 "specialisties" in Year 10, these subjects which would chosen by the student would be their main route going into Year 11, with these three classes receiving more attention in the students' schedule with increased time for them (passing from 1 to 2 hours per day), however, in Year 11, each student would be able to change their specialisties if needed, as these are meant to make the students discover what places of interests they may be interested in by working 1 year to acheieve one goal, and if it wasn't the one, the modification in Year 11 may give them a specialicity more akin to their easiness.

These are only sneak peaks in the Reforms planned by the Government with this Act. More to follow after the Education Secretary's Remarks about the outcome of the Vote.

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