Erfurt (dpa/th) - The red-red-green coalition wants to relieve schools and react to the shortage of teachers with educational and administrative assistants, a reform of teacher training and new forms of digital teaching. A corresponding draft to change the school law will be discussed today in the Thuringian state parliament. It would be the second major reform in Bavaria's education sector within a few years. It was not until 2019 that the school law was comprehensively changed.
Unlike then, however, the Left, SPD and Greens no longer have a majority in Parliament and would be dependent on votes from the opposition for the amendment to be passed. However, the CDU parliamentary group is critical of many of the coalition's ideas and has submitted its own proposals together with the parliamentary group of the FDP.
One of the most controversial ideas of the red-red-green groups is to train teachers according to school levels instead of school types. This is intended to ensure that teachers can be deployed more flexibly where they are most urgently needed.
In addition, Red-Red-Green wants to abolish the final exam in the tenth grade at high schools, which the CDU vehemently rejects. The planned introduction of assistants to relieve school management and a stronger practical orientation at regular schools are seen as possible points for agreement. Whether there will actually be a change in the school law in the end is considered to be completely open.
