What do the parties in Brandenburg say on education?

The AfD wants to turn the final two years of kindergarten into a preschool. A binding curriculum with uniform standards is meant to prepare children for school.

The AfD wants to create a preschool. It would cover the last two years of kindergarten. All children would learn by the same plan. This should get them ready for school.

The AfD wants more elementary school hours for German and math and would drop the first foreign language in grades 1 to 4 to make room. Children would start school only at age six, and handwriting would get more practice.

The AfD wants more German and math in elementary school. The first foreign language would be dropped in grades 1 to 4. Children would start school only at age six. They would write by hand more often. All children should learn to swim.

The AfD wants schools to put more weight on performance. This includes conduct grades from grade 1, the nine-year track to the Abitur at the Gymnasium (G9), the three-tier school system and more teacher-led instruction.

The AfD wants schools to demand more effort. There would be conduct grades from grade 1. These are grades for behavior and class work. The Gymnasium would again lead to the Abitur in nine years. Teachers would teach from the front of the class more often.

The AfD wants to ban the approach known as "sex education of diversity" in daycare centers and schools and allow sex education only in biology class. It also says it wants to restore the political neutrality of schools.

The AfD wants to ban a certain kind of sex education. It deals with the diversity of gender and love. Sex education would only take place in biology class. Schools would fly only the state and national flags. Rainbow flags would not be allowed there.

The AfD wants to keep kindergartens, preschools and elementary schools free of digital devices through grade 6. A smartphone ban for the entire school day would be written into the school law.

The AfD wants no digital devices in daycare and elementary school. This would apply up to grade 6. Smartphones would be banned at school. The ban covers the whole school day and the school grounds.

The AfD wants to end the current inclusion policy in schools, which it calls chaotic. Instead, a dense network of well-equipped special-needs schools (Förderschulen) would be built.

Today children with and without disabilities often learn together. This is called inclusion. The AfD wants to end this policy. It wants to build more special-needs schools and equip them well. The state would train its own teachers for these schools.

The AfD wants to limit the share of students with a migration background at public schools to a maximum of ten percent. Students with too little German would enter regular classes only after a language course and test; the party also plans a headscarf ban and a German-only rule on school grounds.

The AfD wants a limit for children from immigrant families at schools. At most ten percent of students should come from such families. Children with little German must first pass a language course and a test. Headscarves would be banned at schools. Everyone would have to speak German on school grounds.

The AfD wants to shorten teacher training, make it more practical and return to the state examination. Administrative staff, more school psychologists and promotion posts are meant to relieve teachers and make the job more attractive.

Brandenburg does not have enough teachers. The AfD wants to make training shorter and more practical. A new training site would open in Frankfurt (Oder). Office staff would take work off teachers. There would be many more school psychologists.

The AfD wants to turn compulsory school attendance into a duty to be educated and allow homeschooling in a pilot project. It argues that the state no longer keeps its promise of the best educational opportunities.

Today all children must go to a school. The AfD wants to change that. Children could also learn at home. This would first be tried in a test project. Children would still have to learn.

The AfD wants to give universities reliable core funding instead of awarding government project grants. In its view, this is the only way to secure freedom of research and teaching.

The AfD wants to give universities more fixed money. Today they get a lot of money only for single projects. The AfD says this makes universities dependent. Universities should decide on their own courses of study.

The AfD wants to charge students from non-EU countries fees that cover the cost of their studies. This is meant to relieve taxpayers; the revenue would go toward better teaching.

The AfD wants fees for some students from abroad. This affects students from countries outside the EU. They would pay the cost of their studies themselves. The money would improve teaching at universities.

The AfD wants an open-ended review of the Bologna reform. Brandenburg's universities would again be allowed to offer Magister and Diplom programs because the party believes the quality of studies has declined.

Universities used to award degrees called Magister and Diplom. Today there are mostly bachelor's and master's degrees. The AfD wants to allow the old degrees again. It says that studying has become worse.

The AfD wants to fund professorships on the history of East Germany (GDR) and on communism. The topic would again have a firm place in research and school lessons.

The AfD wants more research on East Germany and communism. Universities would get professorships for this. Students at school would also learn more about it. The professors should come from eastern Germany if possible.

The BSW wants schools to refocus on reading, writing, and arithmetic. Gender-inclusive language would be banned in schools and public offices, and phones and tablets would be removed from elementary classrooms.

The BSW wants children to learn reading, writing, and math first. Gender-inclusive language should be banned in schools and public offices. Elementary classes up to grade 4 should have no phones or tablets.

The BSW wants to ban smartphones and tablets in class at least through fourth grade. Elementary schools should focus first on reading, writing, and arithmetic, because the platform argues that digital devices hinder learning and language development.

The BSW wants to ban smartphones and tablets in class. This should apply at least until 4th grade. Children should mainly learn to read, write, and do math. They should work more with printed books again.

The BSW wants to tackle the teacher shortage by training more teachers in the state, adopting a long-term staffing plan, and improving working conditions. Classes should have no more than 25 students, and teacher training should be practice-oriented from the start.

Brandenburg is short of many teachers. The BSW wants to train more teachers in the state. A class should have 25 children at most. Teachers should have less office work. Teacher training should include more practice.

The BSW wants to give Oberschulen (non-academic secondary schools) and comprehensive schools more funding and staff and make them more practice-oriented. Clearer admission criteria should apply to the Gymnasium (academic-track school) to prevent overcrowding, and grades should remain the standard everywhere.

The BSW wants to strengthen Oberschulen and comprehensive schools. They should get more money and more staff. The Gymnasium should have clearer rules for admission. Switching between school types should be easier. All schools should keep giving grades.

The BSW wants to set up teams from various professions in schools to relieve teachers. Every school should have at least one school social worker, with a ratio of one per 300 students.

The BSW wants more helpers in schools. These include social workers, psychologists, and IT staff. Every school should have at least one social worker. Teachers should then have more time for teaching.

The BSW wants to keep existing schools in the state, including in sparsely populated regions. In addition, a dedicated funding program should fix deficits in school buildings and equipment.

The BSW does not want to close schools. This also applies to villages with few children. Children should not have very long trips to school. A program should repair run-down school buildings.

The BSW wants to keep special schools and support centers for children with particular needs. At the same time, mainstream schools should get more staff and materials for inclusion; the platform considers inclusion sensible but sees limits.

The BSW wants to keep special schools. Some children need extra help with learning. These schools should stay open for them. Other schools should get more staff for learning together.

The BSW wants to give higher education institutions more money and staff and raise their core funding. Budgets should depend less on third-party grants and no longer on enrollment and graduate numbers.

The BSW wants to give universities more stable money. The money should depend less on outside funders. The number of students should no longer count for it. Universities should get modern equipment.

The BSW calls for full-time contracts under collective agreements with terms of at least one year for young researchers. Student employees should get a collective agreement, and universities of applied sciences should gain the right to award doctorates.

Young researchers should get secure work contracts. The contracts should run for at least one year. Students who work at universities should get a union pay agreement. Universities of applied sciences should be allowed to award doctorates.

The BSW wants to meet the demand for skilled workers mainly through better-paid and more attractive vocational training at home. The party rejects labor immigration as the answer because, in its view, it lowers wages and harms the countries of origin.

The BSW wants to train more young people in the state. Trainees should get more money. The party does not want to bring skilled workers from abroad. It says this pushes wages down here. And those workers are then missing in their home countries.

The CDU wants to make the Meisterbrief (master craftsman certificate) free of charge to boost the skilled trades. After passing the exam, all remaining costs should be fully reimbursed.

People who take the master exam in a trade should pay nothing. After passing, they get all costs back. The CDU wants to make the trades stronger this way.

The CDU wants to expand career guidance in schools: students in grades 9 and 10 should complete three mandatory internships, and every school should hold a "Day of the Trades." Vocational and academic education should be treated as equal, and vocational schools should be strengthened.

Students should get to know jobs early. In grades 9 and 10, they should do three internships. Every school should have a Day of the Trades. Teens aged 15 and up should get money for a trade internship during school breaks. Vocational schools should get more support.

The CDU wants standardized short tests in the last two years of daycare to identify children's support needs. For children with language deficits, the final daycare year should be mandatory. The program sees daycare as key preparation for school.

The CDU wants short tests for children in daycare. This shows where they need help. Children with language problems must attend the last daycare year. Daycare should prepare kids well for school.

The CDU wants to keep all existing school types, including small schools, and to require grades without exception from third grade on. Performance assessment, grading and repeating a year are to remain part of the tiered school system. The program's goal is to secure regular lessons with good teaching quality.

The CDU wants to keep all types of schools. Small schools should stay too. From third grade, there should always be grades. Children can still repeat a year. Five-year-olds should not start school against their parents' wishes.

The CDU wants to address the teacher shortage with quick measures and more training. These include recruitment at home and abroad, bringing back retired teachers, more university places and lowering or abolishing admission grade limits for teacher training. It cites the large number of upcoming retirements.

Brandenburg does not have enough teachers. The CDU wants to find more teachers. Teachers from abroad should be able to start more easily. More young people should study to become teachers. The grade limit for this study should drop or go away.

The CDU wants a guarantee that children can read, write and do math by the end of fourth grade, with extra support lessons if needed. It cites studies that, in the program's view, show a long-term decline among Brandenburg elementary students.

Children should read, write and do math well after fourth grade. The CDU wants to guarantee this. Kids with problems get extra help lessons. German and math should get more time.

The CDU wants to equip all schools, including vocational schools, with IT infrastructure, internet, devices and trained staff. The state should pay for standardized digital learning materials so opportunities do not depend on the finances of parents or school authorities.

All schools should get good internet and devices. Teachers should be trained for this. The state should pay for digital learning tools. Then learning does not depend on parents' money.

The CDU wants to clear what it sees as a large investment backlog at daycare centers and schools with an expanded construction program for municipalities. Funding procedures are to become simpler and digital gaps closed quickly.

Many schools and daycare centers need repairs. The CDU wants to help towns build. Applying for money should be easier. Missing technology at schools should come fast.

The CDU wants to anchor democratic awareness and extremism prevention more firmly in the curricula of all school types. Right-wing extremism, left-wing extremism and Islamism are to be addressed explicitly. The subject LER (life skills, ethics, religious studies) is also to place more emphasis on respect, tolerance and a culture of debate.

Students should learn more about democracy. They should know the dangers of extremism. This means right-wing, left-wing and Islamist extremists. The state civic education office should offer more in rural areas.

The CDU wants to strengthen dual and school-based vocational training, which it sees as an equal alternative to university. Training pay is to be introduced for early-childhood educators, special-needs caregivers and comparable health professions.

The CDU says job training is as good as university. It wants to make job training better known. People training as daycare educators should get paid. This also goes for similar health jobs.

The CDU wants to strengthen university autonomy: the ministry should stop micromanaging and only agree on funding and targets. Base budgets are to rise by 5 million euros each year, and the roughly 50,000 student enrollment is to be at least maintained.

Universities should decide more for themselves. The ministry should give fewer orders. Universities should get 5 million euros more each year. There should be at least as many students as today.

The SPD wants to strengthen dual vocational training, which combines on-the-job training with vocational school. It wants to ensure that trainees pay nothing for their training and are paid fairly.

In dual training, people learn at a company and at a vocational school. The SPD wants to strengthen this training. Training should cost nothing. Trainees should get fair pay.

The SPD wants to gradually improve staffing ratios in child daycare and recruit more skilled workers. To do so, new training places are to be created, training shortened and career changers given easier entry. Daycare law is to become simpler, with fewer rules.

The SPD wants more staff for daycare centers. There should be 500 new training places. Training should take 4 years instead of 5. Daycare teachers should be allowed to work full time. There should be fewer rules for daycare centers.

The SPD wants to address the teacher shortage with more training, qualified career changers and the return of retired teachers. University places at both teacher training sites are to keep growing, and the dual teaching degree is to be expanded.

The SPD wants more teachers for Brandenburg. There should be more university places. People from other jobs should find it easier to become teachers. Older teachers should be able to keep teaching after they retire.

The SPD wants to do more to promote reading, writing and math in elementary schools and introduce more binding curricula. Schools are to get administrative positions and school social work, and schools with particular needs are to receive more staff and money based on a social index.

The SPD wants more lessons in German and math in elementary schools. Curricula should become more alike everywhere. Every school should have a school social worker position. Schools with many children in difficult situations should get more help.

The SPD wants to continue the municipal investment program for education and speed up school construction by allowing approval of standardized building types. Schools are to receive more uniform devices and software, and the use of AI in class is to be defined.

The SPD wants schools to be built faster. For this, there should be ready-made building designs that can be reused. Schools should get more computers and software. All students should be able to use a program for learning languages.

The SPD wants to continue joint learning for children with and without special educational needs. In addition, young people without a next step lined up are to get more support at Oberstufenzentren (vocational school centers), and schools are to prepare students better for practical life matters.

The SPD wants children with and without disabilities to learn together. Young people without a training place should get more help. Schools should teach more about everyday life, such as rental contracts. Brandenburg should train its own vocational school teachers again.

The SPD wants to increase the universities' core funding by 5 million euros each year. This is meant to give them planning security. It also wants to keep supporting universities with new buildings and renovations.

The SPD wants to give universities more money. Each year, 5 million euros should be added. This helps universities plan ahead. The state also helps with building and repairs.

The SPD wants to establish a state-run university medical center in Cottbus. It is meant to strengthen Brandenburg as a research location and improve medical care in the Lausitz region. The Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg (Brandenburg Medical School) would also continue to receive support.

Cottbus should get a state-run university medical center. Future doctors will study there. Research will happen there too. The SPD wants this to improve care in the Lausitz region.

The SPD wants to expand and connect science parks and fund new ones so that research results reach practical use. Small and medium-sized businesses should get easier access to knowledge from universities. Climate, energy and environmental research is also to be strengthened.

The SPD wants to expand places for research and new ideas. These include science parks in Potsdam, Cottbus and Wildau. Small companies should get knowledge from universities more easily. Research on climate and energy should grow too.

The SPD wants to significantly expand civic and democracy education in schools. Students and parents are to be supported in using their participation rights, because in the program's view a strong democracy needs good civic education.

The SPD wants more democracy education in schools. Students and parents should be able to have a say more easily. Democracy projects should get more money. The "newspaper in school" offer should return, this time in digital form.