[GA - In Queue] On Basic Education

On Basic Education
Category: Education and Creativity | Area of Effect: Educational
Proposed by: Ambrella, Co-authored by: JayDee II, Cessarea | Onsite Topic​

The General Assembly,

Recognizing the social goods of a basic education, including economic development, gender parity, scientific advancement, public health, and civic engagement,

Appreciating that various nations and cultures have their own priorities for education,

Nonetheless seeking to guarantee a basic universal standard for educational achievement,

Hereby:

1. Declares that all residents of WA Member States have a right to an education that includes, but is not limited to, the following essential components or the closest relevant equivalents in each nation:
   1. Literacy and fluency in the official or popular language(s) of their nation and the language of one’s own community;
   2. Proficiency in mathematics, including arithmetic and foundational principles;
   3. Proficiency in personal finance and currency (provided that such a nation engages in the exchange of a fiat currency system), and economics that is relevant to the economy and work environment of one’s nation;
   4. An understanding of one’s national and local government, politics, laws, rights and freedoms;
   5. An objective overview of national and international history, culture, religion, and politics;
   6. An accurate understanding of biological and physical scientific principles and their application;
   7. Access to additional reading and educational materials, especially those relevant to fields not covered by the prior components;
   
   
2. Encourages Member States to establish:
   1. Extra-curricular programs dedicated in sports, arts, and other such programs to provide further opportunity to pursue individual interests;
   2. Access to a dedicated fine arts program focused on the study of art, music, or other forms of creative expression that encourage individual creativity;
   
   
3. Dictates that Member States must provide all permanent residents within their borders an education to this effect;
   
   
4. Notes that for those residents incapable of achieving a basic education, whether due to physical or mental handicap or other internal or external factors, member nations must make a good faith effort to educate them to their highest attainable level of achievement. Such effort must also be undertaken for persons with medical diagnoses that may chronically impair a resident's ability to achieve basic education, though not necessarily impede them from doing so;
   
   
5. Establishes the Universal Educational Opportunity Monitoring Office (UEOMO) of the World Assembly to monitor compliance with the principles of this resolution, to set benchmarks appropriate for each member nation to attain compliance that account for individual nation’s own circumstances and obstacles, and to determine which member nations are in need of resources to aid in achieving compliance;
   
   
6. Further establishes that the World Assembly General Accounting Office (GAO) shall allocate and provide funds at the request of the UEOMO to any nation deemed in need of assistance for achieving or maintaining compliance with this resolution;
   
   
7. Further establishes that, should the UEOMO find that all nations are in compliance with the provisions related to (1), the GAO shall allocate and provide funds at the request of the UEOMO to any nation meeting or exceeding their benchmarks related to (1) for the purposes of funding the additional programs encouraged in (2).
   
   
8. Requires the GAO to audit every Member State receiving financial aid under this resolution at least once every five years to verify that funds are being used solely to meet the requirements in this resolution;
   1. Grants any audited nation found to be misusing funds one year from the date of notice to correct the deficiencies identified in the audit;
   2. Declares that any State which meets the following criteria shall forfeit all further financial aid under this resolution until the GAO certifies that the nation has implemented satisfactory corrective measures:
      1. fails a second audit after the one-year remedial period, or
      2. fails three audits within any fifteen-year period;
   3. Encourages each member nation to develop a framework for education that incorporates the components outlined in (1) and (2) alongside their own educational priorities.

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