Jul 4, 2013

MK Porush's anti-school-violence bill rejected

This post will be brief and is really only being posted as a follow-up to a post from 2 months ago. MK Meir Porush (UTJ) announced that he would be proposing a law to allocate funds from the Ministry of Education to schools based on the level of violence within the schools. As violence goes down, the school would be allocated more money. This would encourage school administrators to actually work and find solutions to the problem of violence in the school system.

Yesterday Porush's law was proposed in the Knesset, and was brought to its first vote. MK Porush's law was roundly rejected by the Knesset, with 56 MKs voting against, and only 17 MKs voting in favor. I don't have a list of who voted for and who voted against, but the two haredi parties together have 18 Knesset votes, and Porush did not even get that number in support of his bill.

And in the closing words of Ladaat, Porush's bill was rejected, and the violence will continue..



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3 comments:

  1. chochomJuly 04, 2013 1:46 PM

    if it would have passed, then next week they would propose a new bill to give schools with violence problems more funding so that they can deal with the problem.

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  2. TzviJuly 04, 2013 2:24 PM

    Can Porush propose the same rules for yeshivas? That way Ponivizh for instance (not to mention Gur and others) would receive no funding at all.

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  3. JoshJuly 04, 2013 5:07 PM

    You're going to love this site and it might get addictive. It supposedly reports on all the votes in the Knesset and who did what. I not sure how often it is updated.
    http://oknesset.org/vote/

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