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Proposal ID658
Proposal2012 Platform amendment proposal: Education - GA
PresenterPlatform Committee - Sponsored by GPGA
Floor ManagerBudd Dickinson
PhaseClosed - Adopted
Discussion05-02-2012 - 05-13-2012
Voting05-14-2012 - 05-20-2012
Presens QuorumTwo Thirds of Active Accredited States/Caucuses
Consens QuorumTwo Thirds of Yes and No Votes

Background

None

Proposal

That Platform 2010 of the Green Party of the United States, in Chapter II, related to "Social Justice", Section E., related to "Education and the Arts", is amended by striking paragraph b., which reads:

b. Provide free college tuition to all qualified students at public universities and vocational schools.

inserting in its place the following:

b. Provide free college tuition to all qualified students at public universities and vocational schools. It's time to forgive all student and parent loans taken out to finance post-secondary and vocational education.

That Platform 2010 is further amended, in Chapter IV, related to "Economic Justice and Sustainability", by adding a new paragraph 12., to the section labeled 'Banking reform' to read:

12. Access to primary, secondary, post-secondary and vocational education should be a right of all, not a privilege of the wealthy, and certainly not an opportunity for predatory lenders. It's time to forgive all student and parent loans taken out to finance post-secondary and vocational education. The estimated $40 billion is a fraction of the bailout distributed among the predatory lenders who created the student debt crisis and would make a material difference for households across the country.

Resources

IMPLEMENTATION: Approval of this proposal will amend the 2012 Draft Platform, to be presented for approval at the 2012 Presidential Nominating Convention

CONTACT: Jan Martell, co-chair, 919-682-2472, ninth.st@frontier.com
Bruce Hinkforth, co-chair, 262-569-1370, bhinkforth@milwpc.com
Section editor: Jan Martell, ninth.st@frontier.com

References

2010 Platform: http://www.gp.org/committees/platform/2010/index.php


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