CSU on education

The CSU wants to keep Bavaria's multi-track school system and rejects a single comprehensive school for all as well as federal interference in education policy. School subjects, class groups and grades are to stay. Children should know German before they start school.

Bavaria has different types of schools. The CSU wants to keep it that way. It does not want one common school for all children. Grades and school subjects should stay. Children should learn German before starting school.

The party stands by all types of schools and wants to make it even easier to move between them. It calls for calm and planning certainty in education and rejects any influence by the federal government. It holds on to teaching in subjects and classes and to assessment by grades. The CSU also upholds the principle of "German before school entry," with mandatory language tests and language support in daycare. Its reasoning is that learning German early gives children from immigrant families in particular a chance to take part in society and a good start at school.

The CSU wants to set up 8,000 additional positions in schools by 2028 and provide all students with tablets. Teachers at elementary and middle schools are to be paid at the A 13 grade across the board by 2027. Small elementary schools are to be kept.

The CSU wants 8,000 new jobs in schools. All students should get a tablet by 2028. Teachers at elementary and middle schools should earn more. Elementary schools should not close if parents want to keep them.

The new positions are meant for teachers, administrative staff, social workers and school psychologists. School heads and school administrations are to have less red tape. In elementary school, the CSU wants to focus on reading, writing and arithmetic and to keep every legally independent elementary school as long as parents want it. The switch to starting pay grade A 13 for elementary and middle school teachers is to be finished in 2027, a year earlier than previously agreed. New teacher training programs are to be set up in regions with particular need, and the party also wants to recruit teachers from other states.

The CSU wants every child to learn to swim. To that end, municipalities are to get more help for their swimming pools, and children receive vouchers for a swimming course.

Every child should learn to swim. The CSU wants to give towns more money for swimming pools. Children get a voucher worth 50 euros for a swimming course.

Towns and municipalities are to receive more support when they renovate, maintain or build pools. Swimming lessons are to be expanded together with sports clubs, and school swimming is to be strengthened. The "Seepferdchen" (beginner swimming badge) program continues: in 2023/2024, first graders and preschool children get a 50-euro voucher for a course leading to the badge. From 2024/2025 on, all preschool children are to receive it every year.