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I have created an educational proposal which is right here:

http://www.nationstates.net/30490/page=UN_proposal

However, it doesn't have enough support to pass for tomorrow's deadline. I was wondering what I could improve on it to gain more support. This is my new proposal. Please post what you think, and leave any suggestions.
Thank you!

Education Fund Act
Category: Education and Creativity
Area of Effect: Education

Knowing that schools of today are underfunded and under staffed, and also knowing that education is vital in an industrialized world, this resolution hereby creates:

The World Assembly - Education Department (WA-ED)

1.) Optional: All member nations will put various amounts of national currencies in an “education fund”, depending on nation size, amount of a nation’s teachers trained (see section 2), and inflation rate. The Education Fund will be used to fund colleges and universities and to pay teachers and professors. Non compliance will result in not receiving benefits or support from the WA-ED.
2.) All member nations can send teachers to WA sponsored training schools. The education fund will supply the money for this.
3.) All public universities and colleges will be funded by the WA-ED to ensure free education even after high school.
4.) All high schools and elementary schools will still be funded by the nation’s government, with the exception of training teachers.
5.) The amount of a nation’s teachers trained will be decided at the beginning of each new year. The ratio will be picked by population size.
6.) Private colleges and universities will still have a tuition fee. However, fees will be lowered from the Education Fund.

Just as a starter: what sort of sum do you think would be necessary to, on top of everything else, totally subsidise every single university in the +18,000 WA member states? Well, ok, I know the answer to that: trillions upon trillions. I suppose better questions would be: is it worth it, and how can we possibly afford it?

I'm going to go ahead and direct those interested in this to a very similar proposal: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=560562

We spent days trying to figure out how to fund education.

The Confederacy of KaeZoo opposes public funding for higher education. In response to the promise of "free education even after high school", we would point out that there is no such thing as "free" in this context; it simply means that someone else is forced to pay. Public funding for higher education inevitably means that those who do not attend college will be helping to pay the bill for those who do. We believe that not every person has the desire to attend institutes of higher education, or the ability to succeed there. Those persons who have both the desire and the ability to succeed in higher education are also those who are most likely to become financially successful after graduation.

We would be in favor of contributing to a program which guarantees low-interest loans to aspiring college students without private means, but we strongly oppose making higher education completely "free" for any student.

Amanda McCarthy
Ambassador to the World Assembly for the Confederacy of KaeZoo