This proposal (KA 276) arose from deliberations within a subcommittee of the Committee for Revising the School Law. In his proposal Kuyper finally says that by virtue of his membership in the committee he has tried to agree as much as possible with the principal ideas of the Union Report. The Committee for Revising the School Law was established by The Union: “A School with the Bible” in 1894 and had submitted the so-called “Union Report” in 1895.

The Union Report was intended as a programmatic guide toward achieving legal equivalence between private and public education. The report was issued without Kuyper’s prior consultation or knowledge. Kuyper objected (cf. the lead articles in De Standaard of October/November 1896) that, among other things, the report emphasized the principle of legal equality at the expense of spiritual principles and thus threatened to decrease the love for and commitment to Christian education. In 1898 three additional members were added to the Committee for Revising the School Law from among the fourteen prominent signatories to the letter protesting against the Union Report: H. Bavinck, Kuyper, and J. Woltjer. The committee then charged the above-mentioned subcommittee, of which Kuyper, Æ. Mackay, A.F. de Savornin Lohman, and J. Woltjer were members, with revising the Union Report in order that it might still meet with general agreement.

The conclusions of the revised Union Report were accepted, with a few amendments, by general acclamation at the annual meeting of the union on April 17, 1900.