What do the parties in Berlin say on education?

The AfD wants to revise the curriculum frameworks and put reading, writing, and arithmetic at the center. School graduates should again be ready for vocational training or university. According to the platform, schools should deliver education and be free of what the AfD calls ideological influence.

The AfD wants to change the school curricula. Reading, writing, and math should matter most. Elementary schools should again teach local studies and crafts. The AfD wants no political influence in class.

The AfD wants to strengthen the principle of achievement in schools and teach self-discipline. The platform considers effort, self-discipline, and the ability to handle frustration to be prerequisites for successful teaching. It sees parents as sharing responsibility for their children's respectful behavior.

The AfD wants more discipline in schools. Achievement should count more again. There should be grades for behavior. Students who disrupt class should go to separate rooms.

The AfD wants to preserve the tiered school system and group classes by similar achievement levels. Places at secondary schools would be awarded by grades and proximity to home, no longer partly by lottery. Highly gifted children are to receive targeted support.

The AfD wants to keep different types of schools. School places should go by grades and where a child lives. The lottery should no longer play a role. Very gifted children should get their own schools.

The AfD wants to expand the pilot project known as "Deutsch-Garantie-Klassen" (German guarantee classes). Elementary schools with many children whose home language is not German would set up separate classes for children with proven strong German skills. The party also wants to ban gender-inclusive language in schools and keep teaching cursive handwriting.

The AfD wants special classes in elementary schools. Only children with very good German can join them. A test will check this. Gender-inclusive language will be banned in schools. Children will still learn cursive writing.

The AfD wants no further delays to school renovations and new buildings, and no cuts to room sizes in school construction. Learning materials would become entirely free, and free school lunch would stay. The party wants to reverse the rule that school meals should largely avoid meat for climate reasons.

The AfD wants to renovate and build schools without delay. School books and other learning materials will be free. School lunch will stay free. Schools will be allowed to serve more meat again.

The AfD wants flagpoles flying the German flag at every school and wants to introduce school uniforms. Elementary schools would stay screen-free, with smartphones banned there. According to the program, students' cultural or financial background should not be in the foreground at school.

The AfD wants the German flag at every school. Students will wear the same school clothing. Parents will get money for it. Elementary schools will have no screens and no phones.

The AfD wants to tackle canceled lessons with a law guaranteeing instruction and teacher staffing at 110 percent. Maximum class size would be written into the school law. Grades and repeating a year would remain, and teachers at schools in disadvantaged areas would teach fewer hours.

The AfD wants fewer canceled lessons. A law and more teachers should make this happen. The law will also set the largest class size. Grades will stay. Teachers at difficult schools will teach fewer hours.

The AfD announces a zero-tolerance strategy on school violence, including calling in the police and possible expulsion. Unexcused absences would be recorded digitally and reported automatically. The youth welfare office would have to be informed of truancy reports.

The AfD wants to punish violence at schools strictly. If someone attacks a teacher, the police will be called. Dangerous students can be removed from school. Schools will record absences digitally. If a student skips school, the school calls the parents right away.

The AfD wants to preserve Förderschulen (special-needs schools) and create the missing school places for children with disabilities. Mainstream schools would be required to include a child only if the child is likely to reach the school's learning goals and the class is not unduly affected.

The AfD wants to keep special-needs schools. There should be enough places for children with disabilities. Regular schools must take these children only under conditions. The child must be able to reach the learning goal. The class must not be disturbed too much.

The AfD wants to strengthen dual vocational training over purely school-based training and rejects a levy on companies that do not train. Instead it relies on an agreement with business and tax relief for companies that train apprentices. Vocational schools would be better equipped and dorms for apprentices created.

The AfD wants to strengthen training in companies and vocational schools. Companies should not pay a fee if they do not train. Companies that train will pay less tax. Vocational schools will get more staff and equipment. There will be dorms for apprentices.

The AfD wants to tighten disciplinary rules in Berlin's higher education law so that occupations can be cleared more easily and violent disrupters expelled quickly. Universities would also be required by law to adopt a "Kodex Wissenschaftsfreiheit" (academic freedom code). In the program's view, research and teaching are threatened by ideology and cancel culture.

The AfD wants stricter rules at universities. Occupied rooms should be cleared faster. People who disrupt with violence should have to leave the university. Universities should adopt fixed rules for free science.

The AfD wants to introduce deferred tuition fees, with repayment depending on later income. It also proposes an additional billion euros for science and research and higher core funding for universities. The program considers it unfair that non-academics help pay through taxes for the studies of future high earners.

The AfD wants tuition fees. People pay them only after their studies. Only those who later earn a lot must pay. Universities will also get one billion euros more for research.

The AfD wants to push Berlin's universities to allow military research as a matter of principle. It argues that such research is crucial for the armed forces' readiness and that Germany cannot rely solely on research done abroad.

The AfD wants universities to be able to do research for the military. It says this is important for the armed forces. Germany should not depend only on other countries' research.

The AfD wants to create more permanent positions in academia and fund them through the university contracts between the state and its universities. It also wants to bring young German researchers back from abroad. The program justifies this with the long periods of insecure employment and the emigration of qualified researchers.

Many young researchers only have short-term contracts. The AfD wants more permanent jobs at universities. The state should pay for them. German researchers abroad should come back. Researchers with children should not be at a disadvantage.

Following the example of Baden-Württemberg, the AfD wants to charge tuition fees for students from countries outside the EU. The revenue is to go toward international student exchange. At the same time, German is to be strengthened as a language of scholarship.

Students from countries outside the EU should pay for their studies. Baden-Württemberg already does this. The money should support student exchange. The AfD also wants more German in science.

The AfD wants to restructure student self-government at Berlin's universities. Its model is the Bavarian system, which has no compulsory membership and no compulsory fee. The program cites low voter turnout, opaque spending and what it sees as improper general political activity by the student bodies.

Today all students in Berlin are members of the student body. They have to pay a fee for it. The AfD wants to change that. Nobody should have to be a member. Bavaria is the model.

The AfD wants to gradually convert teacher training into a single-phase, work-study degree. In the teacher training law, topics such as “diversity,” “queer” and “gender” are to give way to practical content. A scholarship program is meant to attract more teachers for shortage subjects.

The AfD wants to change how teachers are trained. Study and practice should happen together. Topics like gender should matter less. Teaching and classroom management should matter more. There should be scholarships for subjects with too few teachers.

The AfD wants to prohibit sexuality from being addressed in daycare centers and schools in ways it considers boundary-crossing. In its view, the "sex education of diversity" approach violates children's sense of modesty and makes abuse easier.

The AfD wants to ban certain lessons about sexuality in daycare and schools. It says: These lessons harm children. It also rejects readings by drag queens. Drag queens are mostly men who perform in women's clothes.

The AfD wants four periods of physical education per week at all Berlin schools, taught in double periods. Swimming lessons are to start earlier, and schools are to get a legal right to bus transport to the pool. Every child in Berlin should be able to learn to swim.

The AfD wants more sports in school. There should be four periods of sports each week. Children should learn to swim in second grade. A bus should take the children to the pool.

The AfD wants to strengthen children's music education with a state program and a music school law. The share of permanently employed teachers at music schools is to rise from 24 to at least 80 percent.

The AfD wants to strengthen music schools. Children should get a place more easily. Many more teachers should get a permanent job. There should be a new law for this.

The CDU wants vocational and academic education to be treated as equal and plans to make advanced training for master craftsmen, technicians and certified business specialists free of charge. Schools are to hold a "Day of the Trades".

Master craftsman training should cost nothing. This also applies to technicians. After the exam, people get their costs back. Schools should hold a day for the trades. Local companies present themselves there.

The CDU wants an Innovation Freedom Act for Berlin that gives state-run research institutes the same flexibility federally funded institutes already have. At the same time, the transfer of research into applications and spin-offs is to be greatly improved.

Research should turn into new products faster. The CDU wants a new law for this. State research institutes should get more freedom. Universities should help more people start companies.

The CDU wants to anchor entrepreneurship more firmly in university studies and academic careers. An internship program is to place 1,000 students a year in Berlin start-ups, backed by a state subsidy.

Students should learn how to start a company. The CDU wants 1,000 students a year to work in young companies. They do an internship there. The state pays 500 euros a month toward it.

The CDU wants to clear the renovation backlog at Berlin's universities and draw up reliable investment plans together with them. Berlin is also to win more federal money from the Hightech Agenda, and the state higher education law is to cut red tape.

Many university buildings need repairs. The CDU wants to fix them. Building should go faster. Berlin should get more federal money for research. Rules for universities should be simpler.

The CDU wants to let universities charge tuition fees on a limited scale, for example for students well past the standard duration of study or students from non-EU countries. The revenue is to go toward better teaching and study conditions.

Studying in Berlin has no tuition fees today. The CDU wants to change that for some groups. Students who take much longer than planned should pay. Students from outside the EU should pay too. The money should improve teaching.

The CDU wants to expand inclusive teaching in mainstream schools while keeping dedicated special-needs centers. Parents should choose whether their child attends an inclusive school or a special-needs center. In the party's view, inclusion should be guided by the child's well-being.

Some children need extra help at school. The CDU wants more shared classes in regular schools. Special-needs schools should stay, too. Parents should decide which school their child goes to.

The CDU wants to keep Berlin's tiered school system and strengthen the Gymnasium (academic-track secondary school). It rejects experiments with individual school types. At the same time, moving between school types should become easier and fairer.

Berlin has different types of schools. The CDU wants to keep this system. The Gymnasium should get stronger. It is the school that prepares for university. Switching between school types should be easier.

The CDU wants to improve funding for independent and faith-based schools. A strengthened construction-cost subsidy is meant to create more school places, widen parents' choice, and take pressure off public schools.

Some schools are not run by the state. Churches or other groups run them. The CDU wants to give them more money for buildings. This should create more school places. Parents should have more choice.

The CDU wants to further expand the preschool year it reintroduced through the Kita-Chancenjahr (daycare opportunity year). No child should start school without speaking fluent German. The aim is for every child to have the necessary basics before school begins.

Berlin has a preschool year in daycare again. The CDU wants to make it bigger. All children should speak good German before school. Daycare and primary school should work more closely together.

The CDU wants to gradually reduce class sizes over the next five years where needed. Primary school classes should have at most 20 students, secondary classes at most 25. These caps are to be written into law.

The CDU wants smaller school classes. Primary classes should have at most 20 kids. Later classes should have at most 25. This should be in the law. The CDU wants to reach this in five years.

The CDU wants binding minimum standards in German and math in primary schools. Grammar, spelling, and joined-up cursive handwriting should be taught systematically from first grade. In the party's slogan, school should involve less gendering and more reading, writing, and arithmetic.

All children should learn to read, write, and do math well in primary school. They should practice grammar and spelling from first grade. They should also learn cursive writing. The CDU wants less gender-neutral language in school.

The CDU rejects abolishing school grades and relies on clear performance standards and exams. Education policy is to be based more on data and research. All students should meet the national standards set by the Kultusministerkonferenz (conference of state education ministers).

The CDU wants to keep school grades. Children and parents should get honest feedback. Schools should use data and tests. This should help make lessons better.

The CDU wants to add an active state duty to Berlin's Neutralitätsgesetz (Neutrality Act) to protect students from religious pressure. Religious practices such as fasting during Ramadan should remain voluntary. Teaching should firmly convey the principles of a secular constitutional state.

Berlin has a law about religion and the state. It is called the Neutrality Act. The CDU wants to expand it. Schools should protect kids from religious pressure. For example, no one should be pushed to fast during Ramadan.

The CDU wants to recruit and retain more teachers, including by granting them civil-servant status and speeding up hiring. All teachers should in future take part in regular, mandatory professional development.

Berlin needs more teachers. The CDU wants teachers to keep getting civil-servant status. Applicants should get jobs faster. All teachers should take training courses regularly. This should be required.

The CDU wants schools to have other professionals in addition to teachers. Every school should have enough social workers. This is meant to relieve teachers and free up more time for teaching.

Schools should have more than just teachers. Social workers, psychologists, and other experts should work there too. Every school should have enough social workers. Then teachers have more time to teach.

The CDU wants to continue its school construction program and set up a new central state agency modeled on Hamburg or Oslo. A program for smaller repairs is meant to bring quick improvements. Public-private partnerships are also to help with construction.

Berlin is building many new schools. The CDU wants to keep going. One central state office should manage school building. Small damage should be fixed faster. Private companies should also help build.

The CDU wants to relieve schools, districts, and administrators of bureaucracy. Cost-and-performance accounting in the school sector is to be reviewed and simplified or scrapped where it mainly creates extra work.

Schools have a lot of paperwork. The CDU wants less of it. One cost-tracking system should be checked. If it only makes work, it should go. Then there is more time for teaching.

The CDU wants every student in grades 7 to 10 to have a digital device by 2030 and all schools to have high-performance networks. School administration processes are to go fully digital, and schools are to get more autonomy.

The CDU wants schools to be more digital. By 2030, all kids in grades 7 to 10 should get a device. For example, a tablet or a laptop. Schools should get more help with tech problems. Enrollment and report cards should also be digital.

Building on the so-called violence barometer, the CDU wants a strategy against violence in schools that combines prevention, intervention and sanctions. Violence, antisemitism, extremism and discrimination are to have no place in schools.

The CDU wants to fight violence at schools. There should be a clear plan for this. The plan should help prevent violence. It should also include punishment for violence. Schools should work more closely with youth services.

The CDU wants a state program for mental health and more school psychology services, citing growing social and psychological pressure on children and teens. This is complemented by healthy school meals, health prevention and first-aid training.

Many kids are under a lot of pressure today. The CDU wants schools to help them more. There should be more school psychologists. School lunches should be healthy. Kids should also learn first aid.

The CDU wants to strengthen school sports, keep grades in physical education and introduce citywide school championships. A swimming initiative is to ensure every child leaves elementary school able to swim safely.

The CDU wants more sports at school. Students should still get grades in gym class. There should be school championships for all of Berlin. Every child should learn to swim safely in elementary school.

The CDU wants vocational and academic education to be treated as equal and career guidance to be mandatory at all secondary schools from grade 7. Young people are to learn early about the range of training paths.

Not everyone has to go to college. The CDU wants job training and college to count the same. From grade 7, all students should learn about jobs. There should be more internships and company visits.

The CDU wants more civic education at all schools, including mandatory study of democratic institutions and German history. The program sees education as the best prevention against extremism. Media literacy is to be a required part of schooling everywhere.

Students should learn more about democracy. They should visit parliament and memorial sites. They should talk about extremism and antisemitism. They should learn to spot fake news. Europe should also be taught more.

The CDU wants a mandatory elective area in which students choose between religion and ethics, modeled on Brandenburg. This would give religious and worldview education a fixed place in schools.

The CDU wants more religion in schools. Students should choose religion or ethics. One of the two should be required. Brandenburg already does this.

The CDU wants the Bundeswehr (German armed forces) to have a stronger presence in civics classes, school projects and through youth officers. Cooperation with police, fire services and the military is also to grow, with regular "blue-light days" at schools.

The army should come to schools more often. Youth officers should talk about security and jobs. Police and firefighters should also visit schools. There should be special days for this.

The CDU sees adult education as the fourth pillar of the education system and wants more support for independent providers plus a state program for permanent funding of basic education. More teachers at Volkshochschulen (community adult education centers) are to be permanently employed.

Learning does not end after school. The CDU wants better education for adults. There should be more money for basic skills. Adult education centers should hire more teachers on a permanent basis.

The CDU wants more sports clubs at daycare centers and schools and closer cooperation with sports clubs. Children and young people should learn to enjoy exercise early, and social background should not be a barrier to access.

The CDU wants more sports for children. Daycare centers and schools should offer more sports groups. They should work more closely with sports clubs. Poor children should be able to join too.

The CDU wants every child in Berlin to learn to swim safely, at the latest at school. It sees swimming as part of safety and of equal opportunity.

Every child in Berlin should learn to swim. This should happen at school at the latest. The CDU says swimming saves lives. All children should get the same chance.

The Greens want to establish environmental education permanently in every borough and create a central office for it within the Senate. Schoolyards and daycare yards are to become near-natural, and Berlin would get a "Klimahaus" (climate house) as a place of learning.

The Greens want people to learn more about the environment and the climate. Every borough should have offers for this. Schoolyards and daycare yards should become greener. Berlin should get a climate house. People can learn and meet there.

The Greens want to make master craftsman training free of charge, more flexible and more gender-equitable. Trades businesses are to keep locations close to residential areas and get more parking for commercial vehicles. The party also wants to support the training of refugees in companies.

Skilled trades matter for climate protection in Berlin. Training to become a master craftsman should cost nothing. People should be able to do it alongside their job. Trades firms should be able to stay in residential areas. Firms should get help when they train refugees.

The Greens want to redesign long-term funding contracts together with the universities and raise funding reliably. This is meant to provide planning security and restore the trust that, in the platform's view, was lost through budget cuts and the termination of the contracts. A building renovation program is to be added.

The Greens want new contracts with the universities. The universities should have a say. They should reliably get more money. That way they can plan better. Lecture halls, labs and libraries should be renovated too.

The Greens want to use legislation to significantly raise the share of permanent positions in academia, especially for postdoctoral researchers. Adjunct lecturers are to be paid better, and student employees are to get a new collective agreement. According to the platform, Berlin should again become a model for attractive academic careers.

Many researchers only have temporary contracts. The Greens want to create more permanent jobs. A law should make this possible. Adjunct lecturers should get more pay. Students who work at universities should get a new union contract.

The Greens want to make Berlin the leading location for research on the resilience of democracy. The platform cites growing anti-democratic movements as the reason. Initiatives that take in threatened researchers and students are to grow as well.

The Greens want more research on protecting democracy. Berlin should be a leader in this. Topics include fake videos and hate on the internet. Berlin should also take in threatened researchers from other countries.

The Greens want to anchor European topics firmly in school curricula and give all learners access to exchange experiences in Europe. A new research center on the upheavals in Eastern Europe is also to be founded.

Students should learn more about Europe. This should be a fixed part of the curriculum. All learners should be able to spend time in other European countries. The Greens also want to found a new research center on Eastern Europe.

The Greens want to keep and strengthen voluntary religious and worldview classes in Berlin schools. The Alevi community is to get its own professorship at Humboldt University.

In Berlin, religion class is voluntary. The Greens want to keep it that way. The classes should get better conditions. The Alevi community should get its own professor at the university.

The Greens want more staff per child in daycare centers and want to expand language education. The platform sees daycare as a place for learning and living in which free play has an important role.

The Greens want more staff for the children in daycare. Then the staff have more time for each child. Children should learn language better in daycare. Their first language should get support too.

The Greens want children with limited German skills to get help earlier. Following Hamburg's model, the language assessment for four-year-olds would be followed by mandatory support programs so that children can keep up in class later.

Some children do not speak German well before school starts. The Greens want to help these children earlier. Children take a language test at age four. After that, there should be fixed support programs. Hamburg already does this.

The Greens want to develop all schools along the lines of Berlin's award-winning schools. In the longer run, new exam formats and competency-based feedback would replace number grades. Fewer young people should leave school without a diploma.

The Greens want to improve schools. Good Berlin schools should be the model. Later, students should get detailed feedback on their learning instead of grades. Fewer teens should leave school without a diploma. Students should give their teachers anonymous feedback once a year.

The Greens want to double the number of Gemeinschaftsschulen (schools where children learn together through all grades) so that every district has them. The platform argues that, according to studies, learning together for longer raises performance and reduces inequality. The move from elementary to secondary school would be reformed.

In Gemeinschaftsschulen, children learn together for many years. The Greens want twice as many of these schools in Berlin. The party says learning together makes education fairer. Moving to secondary school should cause less pressure.

The Greens want to guarantee the right to inclusive education with a binding implementation plan drawn up together with people with disabilities. Instead of new special-needs schools, inclusive focus schools would be created. The state would pay for school transport services for children with impairments.

Children with and without disabilities should learn together. The Greens want a fixed plan for this. People with disabilities should help write it. There should be no new special-needs schools. Instead, there should be schools with a focus on inclusion. The state should pay for rides to school.

The Greens want public funding for private schools to depend more on how many children from poorer families they enroll. Schools with a good social mix would get more money, those with a persistently poor mix less. For the party, the public school system comes first.

Private schools get money from the state. The Greens want to share out this money differently. Schools with many children from poor families should get more. Schools with few such children should get less. All children should be able to attend private schools.

The Greens want to hire more school social workers and expand school stations (on-site support centers) at all Berlin schools. Multiprofessional teams would come to schools in addition to teachers. The aim is to secure psychosocial support and reduce social disadvantage.

The Greens want more social workers in schools. They help children with problems. Every school should have a support station. Other specialists should also support the teachers. That way staff should be less overworked.

The Greens want computer science and media education to be a mandatory part of the curriculum from first grade in all school types. Students should understand algorithms and artificial intelligence and handle digital media critically. The party backs phone restrictions where a school considers them right.

Children should learn about computers and media from first grade. This should be required at all schools. They should be able to spot false news. Every school should get a media team. Schools can decide on phone rules themselves.

The Greens want schools to be run more democratically. Student councils would get their own funds and pedagogical support, and elementary schools would also get an elected council representing all students. Civic education would be written into Berlin's constitution as an educational goal.

The Greens want more democracy in schools. Student councils should get their own money. Children in elementary schools should also elect a council. Civic education should be written into Berlin's constitution.

The Greens want to extend guaranteed supervision at elementary schools until 2:30 p.m., including for children without an after-school care contract. Free school lunches would also be offered from 7th grade onward. The party also wants to promote a later school start and keep the family centers at elementary schools.

Elementary schools should look after children longer, until 2:30 p.m. This also applies to children without an after-school care contract. School lunch should also be free from 7th grade on. Schools should be able to start later in the morning.

The Greens want to remove paving from schoolyards, plant them and renovate old school buildings. Schools would be allowed to open their yards, playgrounds and common rooms to the neighborhood. Students' mental health would also get more attention.

Schoolyards should become greener, with more trees and less concrete. Old schools should be repaired. Schools should be able to open their yards to the neighborhood. Children's mental health should matter more.

The Greens want to end separate schooling inside refugee shelters and offer every child a place at a regular school. Refugee children would move into regular classes as quickly as possible. Instruction in students' family languages would be expanded as well.

Refugee children should no longer be taught in shelters. They should go to regular schools. They should quickly learn together with other children. Children should also get lessons in their family language.

The Greens want to record teachers' working hours and use that as the basis for a new working-time model. Every school would have teams drawn from several professions, without cutting teaching positions. Trainee teachers would also have to teach fewer hours.

Teachers should have a lighter workload. Schools should record exactly how long teachers work. A new model for working time should come from that. People from different professions should work together in schools.

The Greens want to make sure the teacher shortage does not fall mainly on schools in difficult circumstances. To that end, hiring quotas would return and a scholarship would tie students to understaffed schools. Teachers with foreign qualifications would find it easier to enter the school system.

Berlin does not have enough teachers. Some schools are hit especially hard. The Greens want to spread teachers more evenly. Students get money if they later work at such schools. Teachers from abroad should get a job more easily.

The Greens reject a compulsory 11th school year for young people without a follow-up placement. Instead, they favor a flexible Perspektivenjahr (orientation year) and more career guidance in schools. Every young person should have a path forward, even without a diploma.

The Greens do not want a compulsory 11th school year. Instead, there should be an orientation year. That year should be flexible. Schools should teach more about jobs. Everyone should get to know several companies.

The Greens want to create a guarantee of a vocational training place, funded by a levy. Initial vocational training would be fundamentally reorganized, with competence centers and a new state institute. The party points to the sharp decline in company-based training places in Berlin.

Every young person should get a training place. This is called a training guarantee. A levy pays for it. That means companies pay into a shared fund. There should also be more training at schools.

The Greens want to give students more exam attempts and strengthen part-time study. In the party's view, a final failure often has disproportionate consequences for those affected. Curricula would become more flexible.

Students should be allowed to retake exams more often. Today, a final failure means you can never study that subject again. The Greens think that is too harsh. Studying part-time should become easier.

The Greens want to found a university construction company to renovate the buildings of Berlin's universities. The company would finance the work through loans. The aim is to stop the buildings' decay and clear the renovation backlog.

Many buildings at Berlin's universities are in bad shape. The Greens want to found a new construction company. It should repair the buildings. It should pay attention to energy and the environment. The money should come from loans.

The Greens want universities to remain places for peaceful protest and controversial debate, and want to preserve their autonomy against political interference. At the same time, all students, especially Jewish students, should be able to study safely. Participation in governing bodies is to be expanded.

The Greens want to protect peaceful protest at universities. Politicians should interfere less in universities. Everyone should be able to study there safely. This is especially true for Jewish students. Students should have more say.

The Greens want to use the conference of state justice ministers to start a reform of legal education that involves everyone concerned. Topics such as racism, sexism and antisemitism are to become a fixed part of the training. In the legal traineeship, the stipend is to rise and the cap on additional earnings is to be dropped.

The Greens want to change how lawyers are trained. Everyone involved should have a say. There should be less required material. Grades should be easier to understand. Trainees should get more money. The traineeship is the practical part of the training.

The Left wants to found an institute and a degree program for nonprofit housing management. This is meant to train specialists for the public-interest restructuring of the sector that the party is aiming for.

The Left wants to create a new field of study. People learn there how housing companies work without a profit goal. There should also be a new institute. The party says that so far only for-profit real estate is taught.

The Left wants to expand the training levy so that companies that train apprentices are reimbursed in full for all of them. The aim is more apprenticeship slots, since the platform says thousands of applicants are left without one each year. The party also backs an Azubi-Werk (apprentice services agency) offering affordable housing.

Many young people in Berlin cannot find an apprenticeship. The Left wants to help companies that train apprentices. These companies should get their costs back. The money comes from a levy. That means all companies pay into a shared fund. Apprentices should also get affordable housing.

The Left wants to keep education free of charge from daycare through university and make further services free. It argues that education is part of basic public services and that one in four children in Berlin grows up in poverty.

The Left wants education to cost nothing. This applies from daycare to university. The free transit ticket for students should stay. Older students should also get free lunch and free schoolbooks. After-school care should also be free in fourth grade.

The Left wants many more Gemeinschaftsschulen (community schools), where children learn together from first grade through graduation. In the medium term it wants to move beyond the tracked school system. In its view, these schools decouple learning progress from social background.

At a community school, all children learn together. This goes from first grade to graduation. The Left wants many more of these schools. Each district should start at least two new ones by 2031. Later, there should be no separate school types.

The Left wants to train more teachers, ease the load on current staff, and spread trained teachers more evenly across districts and schools. It accuses the Senate of having reduced the teacher shortage only on paper. Cuts made by the CDU-SPD coalition are to be reversed.

Berlin does not have enough teachers. The Left wants to train more of them. They should work less overtime. Their working hours should be recorded exactly. Teachers should be spread more fairly across schools. Degrees from other countries should be recognized more easily.

The Left wants to give schools more staff alongside teachers, such as school assistants, administrative managers, and IT specialists. A dedicated budget is to let schools hire additional professionals such as therapists on permanent contracts themselves. The improvements are to start at schools in difficult circumstances.

Schools should not have only teachers. The Left wants more helpers, IT experts, and office staff. Schools should get their own money for more specialists. These can be speech therapists, for example. Schools with the biggest challenges get this help first.

The Left wants schools that lack teachers to be allowed to cut lessons in a targeted way instead of having classes canceled at random. Language support and individual support would take priority, because the platform says the shortage currently hits the children who need the most help.

Berlin does not have enough teachers. The Left wants schools to be allowed to shorten their timetable in a planned way. Lessons should no longer be canceled at random. Help for individual children and language help should come first.

The Left wants schools facing many difficulties to get priority for money and staff. It also plans a pilot project called "Zukunftsschulen" (schools of the future) in which such schools can work with more freedom. The platform argues that Berlin's education system structurally disadvantages many children.

Some schools have a lot of problems. The Left wants to give these schools more money and more staff. There will also be a new project. It is called "Zukunftsschulen", which means schools of the future. These schools can use the curriculum more freely.

The Left wants to expand psychosocial care for children and teenagers by placing psychologists directly in schools. The plan calls for one professional per 800 students.

The Left wants to do more for children's mental health. Schools should have psychologists. One psychologist should be there for 800 children. Children can get help there easily.

The Left wants every Berlin school to have at least one school social work position, including upper-secondary vocational centers and newly founded schools. In the longer run, there should be one social worker for every 150 students.

Every school in Berlin should have at least one school social worker. This also applies to new schools. Later there should be even more. Then one social worker should be there for 150 children.

The Left wants every child to be able to attend an inclusive school close to home, citing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It rejects new or enlarged special-needs schools. Instead, a state plan with fixed goals, deadlines and investment funds is to be drawn up.

Children with and without disabilities should learn together. This is called inclusion. The Left does not want to build new special schools. It wants a plan for all of Berlin. The plan should have clear goals and money.

The Left wants the move to secondary school to depend less on grades. The trial lesson used as an entry test would be dropped, more places would be assigned by lottery, and repeating a year would end at Gymnasien (academic high schools) too. The party says this would ease pressure on children and counter social separation in schools.

After elementary school, children move to a new school. The Left wants to make this move easier. The trial lesson as a test should end. More school places should be given out by lottery. No child should have to repeat a year, even at a Gymnasium.

The Left sees multilingualism as a valuable skill and wants schools to foster it. First-language classes would grow, and Arabic and Kurdish would become available as foreign languages.

Many children in Berlin speak more than one language. The Left thinks this is valuable. Children should get more lessons in their first language at school. Arabic and Kurdish should become new school subjects.

The Left wants to strengthen schools in dealing with far-right incidents. It plans funded prevention programs, staff training, guidelines and grants for projects started by students. The party points to what it sees as a rightward shift in society.

The Left wants to help schools deal with the far right. There should be programs for prevention. Teachers should get training. Students should get money for their own projects for democracy.

The Left wants to make schools more democratic and give students more say. Student councils would get their own money and defined rights. The party regards the class council as the key tool for this.

Students should have more say at school. Their student councils should get their own money. They should also have clear rights. This applies to elementary schools too. There should be rooms that students run themselves.

The Left wants to strengthen the school subject of civic education and also introduce it in elementary schools from fourth grade and in vocational schools. Out-of-school providers and the state agency for civic education are to be put on a secure long-term footing. According to the platform, the aim is to enable young people to think and act politically for themselves.

The Left wants more civics classes in schools. The subject should start in fourth grade. Vocational schools should also teach it. Groups that offer civic education should get money for longer periods.

The Left wants to make media education a binding part of curricula from elementary school on and give all students access to digital devices and the internet for school purposes. Schools are to get their own media officers and IT administrators. On software, the platform favors open source and a cautious approach to artificial intelligence.

Children should learn how to handle media from elementary school on. All students should be able to use a laptop for school. Poor families get the device for free. Every school should get experts for its technology. Computer programs should not give grades.

The Left rejects blanket cell phone bans for all grade levels. Each school community is to work out its own rules democratically. As long as no such rule exists, the school day is to be phone-free as a default up to and including ninth grade.

The Left does not want a phone ban for all grades. Each school should decide its own phone rules. Students, parents and teachers decide together. If there is no rule yet, phones stay off through ninth grade.

The Left wants to replace numerical grades with oral and written feedback through ninth grade at all types of schools and to cut back homework. This is meant to reduce performance pressure and foster students' own motivation. In the platform's view, homework deepens social inequality because not all children have time, quiet and help at home.

The Left wants no number grades through ninth grade. Teachers should say or write how a child is doing instead. There should be less homework. Practice should mostly happen at school. Children should have free time without required tasks.

The Left wants to end all cooperation between the Bundeswehr (German armed forces) and Berlin schools and to ban advertising to and recruitment of minors. Schools are to be military-free places where civilian peace education is firmly anchored. The party rejects conscription in any form.

The army should no longer come to Berlin schools. It should not advertise to children and teenagers. Schools should teach peace education instead. The Left is against a military draft.

The Left wants to continue Berlin's school construction drive and speed it up where possible because, according to the platform, more than 25,000 school places are still missing. School buildings are to be more open to sports, music and other neighborhood uses. Through the Bundesrat, the party wants to initiate a special fund for education.

Berlin should keep building new schools and repairing old ones. The platform says over 25,000 school places are still missing. Clubs and music groups should be allowed to use school buildings. The federal government should create a special pot of money for education.

The Left wants to markedly improve staffing in all-day programs at elementary schools: one full-time educator is to be responsible for 15 children instead of the current calculated 22. Federal money from the investment program for expanding all-day schooling is to be used for this. Management, rooms, cafeterias and school libraries are also to be better resourced.

More educators should work in all-day school programs. One staff member should look after only 15 children. Today the number is 22 on paper. Schools should get more cafeterias. Educators everywhere should be paid under a union wage agreement.

The Left wants to municipalize the cleaning of Berlin's schools in the coming legislative term, meaning the public sector would do the work itself. The same step is to be examined for school lunches.

Schools should be cleaned by the boroughs' own workers. Today private companies often do this. The state should give the boroughs money and jobs for it. The Left also wants to look into this for school lunches.

The Left wants to fund out-of-school education providers adequately and deepen their cooperation with schools, especially in all-day programs. Cultural education is to be secured permanently because, in the platform's view, it is the key to taking part in cultural life.

Learning programs outside school should get enough money. These include music schools and youth art schools. They should work more closely with schools. The money should be secure and not at risk in every budget.

The Left wants everyone to leave school with a path toward vocational training or university, and promises a training guarantee. Career orientation is to start in elementary school and be a task for the whole school. The Oberstufenzentren (vocational school centers) are to be modernized technically.

Every young person should have a plan for a career after school. Those who do not want to go to college should be offered a training place. Schools should teach about jobs early. All schools should get workshops. Vocational schools should get modern equipment.

The Left wants to expand the eleventh compulsory school year and make it easier for young people to move into dual vocational training. School-based and company-based vocational education would be handled by a single Senate department so that the transition into work has no gaps.

The Left wants to help young people more after school. The eleventh school year should offer more chances. Young people should be able to switch into job training more easily. One single department should be in charge of job training.

The Left wants to keep ethics as a regular school subject in Berlin. It rejects mandatory religious education, even in the form of a required elective.

In Berlin, all students take ethics class. The Left wants to keep it that way. Religion should not become a required subject. This also applies to a required elective.

The Left wants a binding tuition schedule for private schools and wants to enforce the constitutional ban on segregation by wealth (Sonderungsverbot). That ban says private schools may not select children based on their parents' income. The party gives priority to the public school system.

The Left wants fixed rules for tuition at private schools. Private schools may not pick children based on their parents' money. That is in the German constitution. The Left wants everyone to follow this rule. Public schools matter most to the party.

The Left wants to offer permanent positions to the freelance instructors at Berlin's Volkshochschulen (adult education centers) and music schools, without requiring them to reapply. This is meant to give them job security and give the districts legal certainty. Literacy and basic education programs for adults would also continue to be funded according to need.

Many teachers at adult education centers and music schools have no permanent job. The Left wants to offer them one. They would not have to apply again. There should also still be money for courses in reading, writing and math.

The Left wants to raise daycare quality with more staff and more space per child. Falling birth rates are to be used to improve the staff-to-child ratio. In addition, Berlin's existing early education curriculum is to be defended, and child protection and health protection in daycare centers are to be strengthened.

The Left wants better daycare centers. Each trained worker should care for fewer children. Every child should have more space. All staff should know how to protect children. Daycare centers should become quieter and cooler in summer.

The Left wants to keep the pilot program for social work in daycare centers and expand it in stages. In the medium term, ten percent of Berlin's daycare children are to benefit, and in the long term the service is to be available everywhere. According to the platform, it strengthens child protection and relieves staff.

Some daycare centers have social workers. They help families with paperwork and other problems. The Left wants more of them. Soon, one in ten daycare children should have this help. Later, it should exist all over Berlin.

The Left wants to strengthen Berlin's state-owned daycare operators and raise their share of the city's daycare places to one third. Rooms and staff are to stay in the daycare system despite falling numbers of children. Daycare funding, which the party considers inadequate, is to be reviewed from the ground up.

Berlin has its own daycare operators. The Left wants them to offer one in three daycare places. There are fewer children than before. Rooms and staff should stay anyway. The Left wants new rules for paying for daycare. It is looking at a charge for employers.

The Left wants to lower barriers to daycare that, according to the platform, mainly affect children with disabilities and those from disadvantaged groups. All families are to receive the daycare voucher automatically, and youth welfare offices are to have access to a share of places. Home-based childcare providers are to be paid better.

Not all children get a daycare place easily. The Left wants to change that. Every family should get the daycare voucher automatically. It should be easy to understand. Youth offices should assign some places to children in hard situations. Home-based childcare workers should get more money.

The Left wants every child to be able to attend daycare for at least two years before starting school, in order to build language skills. Home languages are to be recognized and used in daily daycare life. For children with disabilities, the party plans a push for barrier-free early education.

Every child should be able to attend daycare for at least two years before school. Children learn to speak better there. Families' home languages should also have a place in daycare. Parents should not have to pay fines. Children with disabilities should find a daycare place everywhere.

The Left wants to improve training for daycare staff and have more of it take place at public schools. Private schools would have to meet the same quality requirements. The program argues that many educators will retire soon and that, in the party's view, the profession risks losing its professional standards.

The Left wants better training for daycare workers. More people should train at public schools. Private schools should follow the same rules. Practical hours during training should be paid.

The Left wants to sign new university contracts that fund higher education institutions adequately, with securing study places as the priority. The renovation backlog is to be reduced; the party accepts a public university construction company able to borrow only under certain conditions.

The Left wants to give Berlin's universities enough money. There should be new firm contracts for this. Study places should be safe. Old buildings should be repaired. Private companies should not be the only ones to profit from this.

The Left wants studying in Berlin to remain free of tuition fees, including for students from abroad. The Studierendenwerk (student services organization) is to get more state money.

Studying in Berlin should stay free. This also applies to students from other countries. The student services organization should get more money. It helps students with advice, food and housing.

The Left wants universities to develop their research questions together with the city's residents and to make their findings publicly accessible. Open science is to receive targeted funding, and science communication is to be expanded.

The Left wants research to be open to everyone. Universities should work together with the people of Berlin. Everyone should be able to read research results. There should be funding for this.

The Left wants permanent tasks at universities to be carried out by staff on permanent contracts. Adjunct teaching is to be paid better, outsourced areas brought back in-house where needed, and the chair system replaced by department structures.

The Left wants better jobs at universities. People who do lasting tasks should get a permanent job. Adjunct teachers should get more pay. Universities should not hand work over to outside companies.

The Left wants to make access to study and academic work easier for disadvantaged groups. This includes support programs, more inclusion, stronger anti-discrimination work and more equality for women in academia.

The Left wants everyone to be able to study well. Disadvantaged students should get more help. People with disabilities should get suitable places to study. Universities should do more against discrimination.

The Left wants to further democratize university governing bodies. Technical, service and administrative staff are to take part in academic self-governance and also have a say in professorial appointments.

The Left wants more participation at universities. All groups should have a say. Technical and administrative staff should also help decide. For example, when new professors are chosen.

The Left wants to promote the quality of teaching and study. It plans more research-oriented teaching, more student-led tutorials, a stronger role for students in quality assurance and fewer exams.

The Left wants better teaching at universities. There should be more tutorials. These are study groups led by students. Students should be able to give their opinion on teaching. There should be fewer exams.

The Left wants to remove the disciplinary measures from Berlin's Higher Education Act. In the platform's view, they are aimed one-sidedly at disciplining students.

Berlin's university law contains disciplinary measures. These are penalties a university can impose on students. The Left wants to abolish these penalties. It says the rules are aimed one-sidedly at students.

The Left wants to secure freedom of research and teaching through solid funding and by protecting university autonomy. Threatened fields of research and researchers facing hostility are to receive support, and civil clauses are to be implemented and extended.

The Left wants to protect the freedom of research. Universities should get enough money. Researchers who are threatened should get protection. Universities should only do research for peaceful purposes. This rule is called a civil clause.

The Left wants Berlin to produce 3,000 teaching graduates every year, arguing that hiring needs will stay at that level. Universities are to receive additional money for this, and training capacity is to be tied to demand by law.

Berlin needs more teachers. The Left wants to train 3,000 new teachers every year. Universities should get more money for this. A law should say: there are as many places to study as Berlin needs teachers.

The Left wants to gear teacher training degrees more closely to the profession. Teaching methods, educational science and classroom practice are to carry more weight from the bachelor's level on, and the practical semester is to be better supervised.

The Left wants to change the degree for future teachers. Students should get more practice in schools. They should learn earlier how to teach well. In the practical semester they should get more guidance. They should also be paid for it.

The Left wants training to be the focus of the Referendariat (the post-degree teacher traineeship) and to raise pay to at least 1,800 euros. The teaching load counted against school staffing is to drop back to seven hours a week.

Trainee teachers are still learning the job. The Left wants to pay them at least 1,800 euros. They should have to teach fewer hours on their own. That leaves more time to learn. Experienced teachers should guide them better.

The Left continues to see lateral entry as a way to recruit new teachers and wants to widen access. The list of shortage subjects is to be reviewed and extended or abolished altogether, and applicants with only one subject are to be allowed to teach as well.

Some people become teachers without a teaching degree. This is called lateral entry. The Left wants to make it easier. People with only one school subject should also be able to become teachers. They then get extra training in how to teach.

The Left wants practical, high-quality continuing education for staff at Berlin's schools. Training on inclusion, anti-discrimination, democracy education, and media literacy would become mandatory offerings. The platform argues that lifelong learning also improves school quality.

The Left wants better training for people who work in schools. Some topics should be required. Examples are inclusion and democracy. Schools should get extra training days for this.

The Left wants to modernize legal education: less mandatory material in the exam, a digital first state exam, and blind second grading. More training places in the Referendariat (post-graduate legal traineeship) are meant to shorten long waiting times, and the part-time option should be possible without a pay cut.

The Left wants to change how lawyers are trained. The exam should cover less required material. Students should be able to write the exam on a computer. The second grader should not know the first grade. There should be more places in the legal traineeship.

The SPD wants more staff per child in Berlin's Kitas (daycare centers). This is meant to free up time for individual support, talks with parents and documentation. The state-owned daycare operators are also to be put on a secure financial footing.

Daycare centers should have more staff for the children. Then staff have more time for each child. The SPD also wants to give more money to the daycare centers owned by the state of Berlin.

The SPD wants mandatory language assessments for all children and targeted help before school for those who need it. The compulsory final year of daycare is to be enforced across Berlin. Every child should be able to follow lessons when starting school.

All children should take a language test before school. Children with problems then get help with speaking. The last year of daycare should be required for all children. This way all children can keep up at school.

The SPD wants twice as many Gemeinschaftsschulen (comprehensive schools where students learn together through all grades) and wants every secondary school to offer all diplomas up to the Abitur. Its reasoning is that family background still too often decides a child's path. It opposes more Gymnasien that start in grade 5.

In a Gemeinschaftsschule all children learn together for a long time. The SPD wants twice as many of these schools. Every school should offer all diplomas, including the Abitur. The SPD does not want more Gymnasien that start in grade 5.

The SPD wants children with and without special needs to learn together in mainstream schools. The number of special-needs centers is not to grow; instead they are to be converted into inclusive options under a binding ten-year plan.

Children with and without disabilities should learn together. The SPD does not want new special schools. The existing ones should change over ten years. Regular schools get more specialists for this.

The SPD wants to give schools more decisions of their own on teaching, staff and budgets. At the same time, schools are to work more with collected data. The school supervisory authority is to become an independent oversight and complaints body.

Schools should decide more on their own. This covers teaching, staff and money. They should measure more often how well children learn. School oversight should become independent and take complaints.

The SPD wants to trim the framework curricula, make timetables more flexible and expand all-day programs at elementary schools. Lessons and activities outside class are to be linked more closely. Learning materials are to stay free for every child.

The curricula should get shorter. Schools should plan their hours more freely. Afternoon care should grow up to grade 6. School materials stay free for all children.

The SPD wants to keep the subjects politics and ethics unchanged and rejects letting students choose between ethics and religion. Students are to have more say starting in first grade. The platform argues that young people now meet opponents of democracy earlier, often through social media.

The subjects politics and ethics should stay as they are. Students should not choose between ethics and religion. Children should have more say from grade 1 on. This way they learn democracy.

The SPD wants to ban cell phones at all elementary schools, citing health and child protection. At the same time, a new framework curriculum is to anchor digital education in all subjects and grades.

Cell phones should be banned at elementary schools. This is meant to protect children. At the same time children should learn more about digital topics. These include social media and safety on the internet.

The SPD wants to record teachers' working hours, reduce their workload and hire more non-teaching staff. Every school is to have at least one school social worker position. This is meant to let educators focus on their core tasks.

Teachers should be able to record their working hours. Schools get more staff for office work, IT and building care. Every school should have a social worker position. Teachers then have more time for teaching.

The SPD wants to keep school construction at its current pace and focus more on renovating existing buildings. Funding is to stay public; it rejects partnerships with private investors in school construction.

Berlin should keep building and repairing many schools. Old school buildings should now be renovated more. The money should come from the state. Private companies should not finance schools for the state.

The SPD wants to strengthen vocational schools with their own development plan, better equipment and a state institute. All young people should reach a qualification and a next step. Career guidance is to begin as early as elementary school.

Vocational schools should get better. They get a plan, modern technology and enough teachers. A new institute should watch over quality. Children should learn about jobs as early as elementary school.

The SPD wants adult education options such as Volkshochschulen (adult education centers), libraries and second-chance schools to be low-cost or free. Literacy and basic education are to be strengthened. Better working conditions are to apply to people who work in adult education.

Adults should also be able to learn well. Courses should cost little or nothing. People should be able to learn to read and write better. Those who teach these courses should have good working conditions.

The SPD wants to keep the existing university places in Berlin and fund higher education on a stable basis. Science buildings are to be renovated and newly built through a construction company financed by the state. The platform sees science as a driver of innovation and economic success.

Berlin should not cut university places. Universities should get money reliably. A new state company should build and repair university buildings. Berlin should attract good researchers from around the world.

The SPD wants research results to reach companies and society more often. Uniform rules on intellectual property are meant to make spin-offs from universities simpler. Exchange between researchers and the public is also to grow.

The SPD wants ideas from research to be used. Researchers should be able to start a company more easily. Berlin should have the same rules for all universities. Scientists should also talk more with citizens.

The SPD wants to keep study at state universities free of tuition and to double the share of student housing. At the federal level it is pushing for BAföG (student aid) that does not depend on parents' income. The program argues that BAföG is too low for living in Berlin.

Studying at state universities should stay free. The SPD wants twice as much housing for students. BAföG is state money for students. It should no longer depend on the parents' income. The semester ticket should also stay cheap.

The SPD wants to adapt degree programs more closely to students who work and to improve supervision. Academic continuing education is to become a public task of universities as well. The program cites demographic change and the upheavals caused by AI as reasons.

Many students work while they study. The SPD wants more study programs that fit this. Universities should also offer more further training. This is to become a task of the state. People with low pay should be able to learn more easily.

The SPD wants to create more permanent positions for academic staff. People with a doctorate are to be employed on permanent contracts as a rule. Through the Bundesrat it wants to reform the law on fixed-term contracts in academia.

Many researchers only have short-term contracts. The SPD wants more permanent jobs at universities. People with a doctorate should usually get a permanent job. The SPD also wants to change a federal law for this.

The SPD wants to act against antisemitism, Islamism, racism and discrimination at universities and to strengthen prevention. At the same time, equality and diversity are to receive more support. The program stresses that academic freedom applies and democratic protest remains possible.

Jewish people should feel safe at universities. The SPD wants to act against hatred of Jews and against racism. Protest should still be possible at universities. There should be more places to file complaints. Disadvantaged students should get more help.