Name of the Law/Policy: School uniforms
Law/Policy Catagory: Education
Options:
1) School uniforms are compulsory at all schools.
2) School dress codes, but not school uniforms, are compulsory at all schools.
3) Both school uniforms and dress codes are forbidden.
4) Schools decide about this issue.
5) Local governments decide about this issue.
Effects:
1) Increase in gov. responsibilities, increase in conservatism.
2) Increase in gov. responsibilities, small increase in conservatism
3) Increase in gov. responsibilities.
4) Decrease in gov. responsibilities.
5) Increase in devolution.
Name of the Law/Policy: Government funding of charter, for-profit private and religious schools
Law/Policy Catagory: Education
Options:
1) No non-government schools are given any government funding.
2) Charter schools only are given government funding.
3) Religious schools only are given government funding.
4) Charter and religious schools only are given government funding.
5) All schools are given government funding.
6) Schools are given funding on a case-by-case basis.
7) The funding of schools is the responsibility of local governments.
Effects:
1) Decrease in gov. responsibilities, increase in capitalism, small decrease in religiousness
2) Small increase in gov. responsibilities.
3) Small increase in gov. responsibilities, increase in religiousness.
4) Small increase in gov. responsibilities, increase in religiousness
5) Increase in gov. responsibilities.
6) No effect.
7) Increase in devolution.
Name of the Law/Policy: School admissions
Law/Policy Catagory: Education
Options:
1) Schools must admit all applicants.
2) Schools must admit all applicants as long as vacant positions exist.
3) Schools must admit all applicants within a certain area near to the school.
4) Schools may choose which applicants to admit, but must do so using the same criteria for all applicants to maintain fairness.
5) Schools may choose which applicants to admit, with no regulations.
6) Local governments decide on this issue.
Effects:
1) Significant increase in gov. responsibilities.
2) Increase in gov. responsibilities.
3) Increase in gov. responsibilities.
4) Small decrease in gov. responsibilities.
5) Decrease in gov. responsibilities.
6) Increase in devolution.
Name of the Law/Policy: The age from which students are required to be educated (if education is compulsory).
Law/Policy Catagory: Education
Options:
5 - 12
Effects:
N/A
Notes:
There is already a variable for the age UNTIL which students must go to school. Just in case you missed it, this is FROM, not UNTIL. So don't complain that we already have one.
