What do the parties in Bremen say on education?

The BIW wants every child tested from age three to spot language and learning gaps early. Children with a high need for support would be required to attend kindergarten and, where necessary, a public preschool. Refugee children of school age would first learn German in preparatory classes.

The BIW wants to test all children at age three. This should show language problems early. Children with big problems must then go to kindergarten. Refugee children first learn German in separate classes.

The BIW wants to dissolve Bremen's Oberschulen (comprehensive secondary schools) and bring back Hauptschule, Realschule and Gymnasium. The move to secondary school would depend only on performance and ability. The party also wants earlier grading, conduct grades and mandatory grade repetition.

The BIW wants to end the Oberschule school type. There would again be three types of secondary school. A test at the end of primary school decides which one fits. Children could again be held back a year.

The BIW rejects teaching children with special needs in learning, language or behavior together with others in regular classes. These children would instead receive intensive support at special-needs schools. Children with physical disabilities would also preferably be taught there.

The BIW is against shared classes for all children. Children with learning problems should go to special schools. The BIW says they get better help there. This also applies to children with physical disabilities.

The BIW wants to attract more teachers to Bremen, including through higher pay and housing for educators moving in. Career changers, classroom assistants and retired teachers would also be brought in. In the long run, class sizes would shrink.

Bremen does not have enough teachers. The BIW wants to pay teachers more. Teachers from other states should get apartments. People without teacher training could also teach. Later, classes should be smaller.

The BIW wants tougher action against truancy, with higher fines for parents and loss of custody in serious cases. Violence and bullying at schools would have to be reported and would lead to expulsion. Schools with repeated violent incidents would get entrance checks.

The BIW wants all children to attend school. Parents of children who skip school should pay higher fines. Schools must always report violence and bullying. Offenders should have to leave the school. Some schools should have checks at the entrance.

The BIW wants a first degree to stay free of tuition but would again charge long-term students. People over 55 starting a second degree would also pay. In addition, all faculties would introduce entrance exams and a test after the first semester.

A first degree in Bremen should stay free. People who study for a very long time should pay fees again. This also applies to a second degree from age 55. There should be an exam before starting. Another test follows after the first semester.

The BIW wants to create a dedicated Gymnasium for highly gifted young people in Bremen. At the same time, struggling learners would get extra tutoring and homework help in all-day schools across the state. A volunteer network of learning and reading mentors would add to this.

The BIW wants a special Gymnasium for very gifted young people. Children with learning problems should get extra lessons. There should be help with homework. Volunteer mentors should help children with learning and reading.

The CDU wants to introduce a compulsory preschool year for children with a documented need for language support. The platform argues that equal educational opportunity requires sufficient German skills.

Some children do not speak German well before school starts. These children should have to attend preschool for one year. There they should learn better German. That should help them keep up in school.

The CDU wants to deploy IT specialists as "digital caretakers" in schools so that technology works and teachers are relieved. Computer science would also become a separate subject from lower secondary level. Digital learning is meant to add to in-person teaching, not replace it.

The CDU wants to hire tech experts for schools. They look after computers and Wi-Fi. Teachers then have more time for teaching. Computer science should become its own school subject.

The CDU wants to give vocational schools more staff and resources and to present vocational training as equal to academic education. Career orientation would be expanded and begin as early as fourth grade.

The CDU wants to equip vocational schools better. They should get more staff and more materials. Children should learn about jobs as early as fourth grade. Job training should count as much as a university degree.

The CDU wants to convert every elementary school in the state into an all-day school and expand such offerings at secondary schools too. Schools would work more closely with sports clubs and child and youth welfare providers.

All elementary schools should become all-day schools. That means children are at school in the afternoon too. Sports clubs should take part there. There should be a third PE lesson each week.

The CDU wants to extend the LALE learning assessment to more grade levels and eventually have all schools take part. The platform says such tests give teachers the basis for individual support.

The CDU wants to check more often what students already know. The test is called LALE. More grades should take it. Teachers can then help each child better.

The CDU wants to preserve the existing Gymnasium schools (academic-track high schools) in Bremen and Bremerhaven. It also wants a new Gymnasium built in western Bremen, in the Walle and Gröpelingen area.

The CDU wants to keep all Gymnasium schools in Bremen and Bremerhaven. A Gymnasium is an academic high school. A new one should be built in western Bremen. It should be in Walle or Gröpelingen.

The CDU wants to give schools in socially strained neighborhoods better infrastructure and priority for additional staff. It argues that school success in Bremen depends more on parents' income than anywhere else in Germany.

Some neighborhoods have many social problems. Schools there should get more help. They should get better buildings and more staff. All children should have the same chances.

The CDU wants to improve staffing and facilities for inclusive schooling while keeping the specialized support centers. Applications for children with special needs are to be processed faster, and the job of school assistant is to become more attractive.

In Bremen, children with and without disabilities learn together. The CDU wants more staff and better rooms for this. Special support schools should stay. Help for children should come faster. No child should miss school because an assistant is missing.

The CDU wants every type of school to have more teachers than are mathematically needed to cover lessons. To get there, it wants easier entry into the profession, more university and teacher-training places, and an interstate treaty to coordinate teacher training nationwide.

Bremen and Bremerhaven do not have enough teachers. The CDU wants more places for teacher studies and practical training. Getting into the job should become easier. The German states should set shared rules for teacher training.

The CDU wants to preserve independently run schools and give them room to develop. It considers the state's current subsidies, based on per-student cost rates, to be a disadvantage and wants to replace them with a new funding model.

Some schools are not run by the state but by independent groups. The CDU wants to keep these schools. The state should pay them in a new way. Costs for materials and buildings should count too.

The CDU wants to create additional school space and significantly speed up both new construction and renovation of schools. When old buildings are renovated, restrooms are to come first.

Many elementary schools in Bremen are too full. The CDU wants to build new school rooms. Building and repairs should go faster. Old school restrooms should be fixed first.

The CDU wants elementary schools to add number grades from third grade on, alongside the current form of assessment. Children who are too weak in reading, writing and math after fourth grade are to receive mandatory extra support.

Elementary schools should give number grades starting in third grade. The current feedback stays too. Weak students should get extra learning time after fourth grade. This support should be required.

The CDU wants students who fail to meet the goals of their grade to be able to repeat the year, and says they should. Beforehand, learning gaps are to be analyzed and binding support measures set.

Some students do not reach the goal of their grade. They should be able to repeat the year. First the school checks what the student is missing. Then the student gets fixed help with learning.

The CDU wants to introduce a school subject called Lebenskunde (life skills), including so-called happiness lessons, starting in elementary school. Children are to learn how to handle feelings such as worries and fears; the party points to the rising number of children and teens with mental illness.

The CDU wants a new school subject. It is about life skills. Children learn how to deal with worries and fear. It also covers exercise, food, money and media. The subject should start in elementary school.

The CDU stands by Bremen's cross-party education consensus of 2008 and its 2018 extension. It is dissatisfied with implementation, however, and wants educational success to depend less on social background and Gymnasien (academic-track high schools) to be considered equally when new schools are founded.

The parties in Bremen have a shared agreement on schools. The CDU wants to keep it. But it says the agreement is carried out poorly. Children from poor families should get better chances. New schools should also include academic-track high schools.

The CDU wants to strengthen civic education at schools and reach an agreement between the state of Bremen and the Bundeswehr (German armed forces) for this purpose. Youth officers are to be able to explain security policy topics in class without recruiting.

Students should learn more about politics and democracy. The CDU wants to work with the German armed forces on this. Army experts should talk about security in schools. They should not advertise jobs there.

The CDU wants to get more young people into vocational training and better match supply and demand on the training market. The Jugendberufsagentur (youth employment agency) would manage the transition systematically and actively reach out to young people. No student should leave school without a diploma.

The CDU wants more young people to find a training place. The youth employment agency should help more. Its staff should go out and talk to young people. Everyone should leave school with a diploma.

The CDU wants to bring university facilities and student housing into Bremen's city center. Existing sites of the Hochschule Bremen and the Hochschule für Künste are to serve as the basis.

The CDU wants more students in the center of Bremen. People should study there and also live there. There should be student dorms. The city library should also get a new home.

The CDU wants more training and continuing education in occupations that matter for climate protection and wants to found a climate campus with a training center in Bremen-Nord. The platform justifies this with a shortage of tradespeople and specialists for the energy transition.

Many skilled workers are missing for the energy transition. So the CDU wants more training in climate jobs. A climate campus should be built in Bremen-Nord. People learn these jobs there.

The CDU wants to make climate, environment and sustainability a permanent part of education, from kindergarten through school, vocational training and beyond. Teaching staff are to receive regular training for this.

Children should learn about climate and the environment early. This should start in daycare and continue in school. Daycare workers and teachers should take regular courses on it.

The CDU wants to reliably fund the core budgets of the university and the other higher-education institutions, reaching at least the national average. The Wissenschaftsplan 2025 (the state's science plan) is to be fully funded. The platform argues that Bremen has ranked near the bottom on core funding for years.

The CDU wants to give universities more money. Bremen should pay at least as much as the German states do on average. The science plan for 2025 should also get enough money. This is the state's plan for its universities.

The CDU wants to scrap the Zivilklausel (civil clause), which commits universities to research for civilian purposes only. In the party's view, it hampers research on technologies with both civilian and military uses and weakens Bremen's competitiveness.

The CDU wants to end the civil clause. This rule only allows universities to do research for peaceful purposes. The CDU says the rule slows research down. Universities should decide for themselves.

The CDU wants the University of Bremen to succeed again in the next round of applications for Clusters of Excellence and pledges support for this. It also wants to reduce administrative burdens for researchers and create more permanent positions for mid-level academic staff.

The CDU wants Bremen to be among the best places for research again. The university should win funding for top research again. Researchers should have less paperwork. More university staff should get permanent jobs.

The CDU wants a single strategy for science marketing that is linked with the city marketing of both cities. This is meant to raise student numbers considerably. In addition, better study counseling and talent scouting in schools are meant to ease the path to university for young people from non-academic families.

The CDU wants to promote Bremen more as a place for science. More young people should then study in Bremen and Bremerhaven. Schools should spot gifted students early and advise them. Going to university should not depend on a student's family.

The CDU wants to expand the range of degree programs, above all by building structures for training physicians, with a dedicated medical faculty in the medium term. It also plans programs in sports education, software development, and computer science teacher training. The platform justifies this with the shortage of skilled workers.

The CDU wants new degree programs in Bremen. People should be able to study medicine in Bremen in the future. Sports teachers and computer science teachers should also be trained here. The CDU wants to gain more skilled workers this way.

The CDU wants to reduce the renovation backlog at universities and improve the campus atmosphere in the process. Shortages of rooms and lecture halls are to be addressed through reliable investment planning and additional funds, including a new lecture hall and event center at the university.

The CDU wants to repair university buildings. There should be more rooms and lecture halls. A new center with lecture halls should be built at the university. Good buildings should make Bremen more attractive for students.

The CDU wants to use state funds to support the creation of student housing and to bring in additional providers alongside the Studierendenwerk (student services organization). Applications for BAföG (federal student aid) are to be processed faster. In addition, psychosocial counseling at universities is to be expanded.

The CDU wants more housing for students. The state should provide money for this. Applications for BAföG should be handled faster. BAföG is money from the state for studying. Students with mental health problems should get more counseling.

The CDU wants to provide more money for digitalizing universities and to equip teaching rooms with the necessary technology. Digital and hybrid teaching formats are to be a regular part of studying. The party wants to turn this into a flagship project for Bremen and Bremerhaven.

The CDU wants to make universities more digital. There should be more money for this. Rooms should get modern technology. Students should also be able to learn online.

The CDU wants to expand international exchange among teaching staff and students by giving more support to Erasmus+ and to lecturer mobility. International degree programs are meant to bring more students from abroad to Bremen.

The CDU wants more exchange with other countries. Students and teachers should be able to go abroad more easily. The Erasmus program exists for this. More young people from abroad should also study in Bremen.

The CDU wants students doing a practical semester with the state of Bremen and its institutions to receive at least 400 euros a month. The same amount is to apply as an allowance in companies majority-owned by the state or the city of Bremen.

Some students work in a public office for one semester. The CDU wants them to get paid for this. It should be at least 400 euros a month. This should also apply in companies owned by Bremen.

The CDU wants to strengthen institutions that make science accessible to the public, such as the Universum Science Center, the Klimahaus, and museums. A new Kosmoskop in downtown Bremen is to be added, which is also meant to attract tourists.

The CDU wants to support places where everyone can experience science. These include museums and the Klimahaus. A Kosmoskop should be built in downtown Bremen. There, people can discover the stars and the deep sea.

The CDU wants climate protection and sustainability to play a larger role in the training of future teachers and early childhood educators. The aim is for these topics to be better integrated into lessons and everyday school life later on.

The CDU wants future teachers to learn more about climate protection. This also applies to daycare staff. Then they can teach the topic better at school.

The CDU wants to promote the exchange of knowledge and technology between universities, businesses, and society. In its view, research results should be put to use and make Bremen and Bremerhaven more innovative.

The CDU wants researchers and companies to work together more closely. Research results should be used. Citizens should also be able to take part in research.

The CDU wants to create religious education in Bremen that is tied to a specific denomination. It sees knowledge of one's own religion and of other religions as a basis for tolerance and living together.

The CDU wants a new kind of religion class. The class is tied to one faith. Children should know their own religion. They should also know other religions. The CDU says this helps people be tolerant.

The CDU wants health education, prevention, and first-aid and resuscitation courses to become a fixed part of school lessons and backs a school subject called "Lebenskunde" (life skills) for this purpose. Mental health services are also to be expanded because, according to the program, such illnesses have been rising for years.

Children are to learn more about health at school. First-aid courses are to start in first grade. The CDU wants a new school subject for this. It is to be called life skills. There is also to be more help for mental health.

The CDU wants to broaden consumer education in schools in Bremen and Bremerhaven. The consumer advice center is to receive enough funding to offer talks and workshops there. Digital information services and media literacy for all age groups are also to be promoted.

Students are to learn more about their rights as buyers. The consumer advice center is to visit schools for this. It gets more money to do so. There is also to be more information and advice online.

The FDP wants to expand the number of nursery and daycare places until supply matches demand. The platform justifies this by pointing to a shortfall of more than 3,800 places in the city of Bremen.

Bremen does not have enough daycare places. The FDP wants to create more places. This includes nurseries. Nurseries are for children under three. Childminders and company daycare centers should help too.

The FDP wants to enforce a ratio of two qualified staff per 20 children in all daycare centers for three- to six-year-olds and to prevent larger groups. In the party's view, daycare centers should develop from a place of safekeeping into an education center.

Each daycare group should have two trained staff for 20 children. Groups should not get bigger. The FDP wants better training for daycare teachers. Working in daycare should get better. Outside experts should check the quality of the centers.

The FDP wants mandatory language assessments for children in the early daycare years. Children with deficits are to receive individual support, and taking part in that support is to be compulsory.

The FDP wants to check early how well children speak. The test should be mandatory. It should happen in the first daycare years. Children with problems then get help. This help should be mandatory too.

The FDP wants private providers of early childhood education to receive the same funding per child as state facilities. Setting up private daycare centers is to become easier, and qualified childminders are to be paid more.

Some daycare centers are private, run by companies or parent groups. The FDP wants to give them the same money per child as state centers. New private centers should be easier to open. Childminders should get better pay.

The FDP calls for a plan to train all pedagogical daycare staff in digital early childhood education within five years. Every daycare center is to have a binding media policy, and daycare administration and communication are to become more digital.

Children use digital media earlier and earlier. The FDP wants daycare staff to be trained for this. This should happen within five years. Each center should have fixed rules for media. Centers should also talk digitally with parents and offices.

The FDP wants to speed up the expansion of all-day schools. This is meant to give children from families with little formal education better chances and to give working parents reliable care.

The FDP wants more all-day schools. Children stay there in the afternoon too. This should help children learn. Working parents can rely on the care. After-school centers and all-day primary schools should work together.

The FDP wants to introduce free school choice for primary schools in the state of Bremen as well, by removing catchment boundaries. At the same time, children should start school with the language, social and physical skills needed for lessons.

Today, where you live decides your primary school. The FDP wants to change that. Parents should choose the primary school freely. Children should start school well prepared. Daycare and primary school should work together more closely.

The FDP wants to bring back school grades from third grade onward and the repeating of school years. It justifies this with the principle of performance, with feedback for children, and with better comparability.

The FDP wants grades again from third grade. Children should also be able to repeat a school year again. The FDP says performance should matter more in school. Grades are easy to understand. Parents should always know how well their child is learning.

The FDP wants an investment drive to eliminate the repair backlog at schools in Bremen and Bremerhaven within ten years. In addition, education spending per capita should not fall behind Berlin and Hamburg.

Many schools in Bremen are in bad shape. The FDP wants to repair and modernize them. This should be done within ten years. New schools should be planned for more students. Bremen should spend as much on education as Berlin and Hamburg.

The FDP wants schools to decide for themselves how to implement uniform education standards. To that end they are to get more pedagogical, staffing and financial freedom and a budget of their own.

Schools should decide more on their own. Each school should get its own budget. A budget is money the school controls itself. With it, the school can choose staff and teaching materials. It should also plan its timetable more freely.

The FDP wants to publish the comparative results of every individual school to help parents choose and to spark competition among schools. Independently run schools are to be better funded through a revised private schools law.

The FDP wants to show how well each school performs. The results should be public. This helps parents choose a school. Schools should spur each other on. Private schools should get more money from the state.

The FDP aims for teacher staffing of 106 percent at all schools and wants to train, recruit and relieve more teachers to get there. A campaign is meant to reduce canceled lessons.

Bremen does not have enough teachers. The FDP wants to train and recruit more. Each school should have slightly more teachers than it needs. Then fewer lessons are canceled. People from other jobs should be able to teach too. Teachers should have less paperwork.

The FDP supports inclusive schooling and wants to give it more staff and funding. At the same time, the special schools for students with visual, hearing and severe multiple disabilities are to be kept. The platform argues that inclusion is underfunded, so many children do not reach the best qualification they could.

Children with and without disabilities should learn together. The FDP wants more trained staff and more money for this. Special schools for blind, deaf and severely disabled children should stay. No child should be left without lessons.

The FDP wants classroom teaching brought in line with current teaching science. Training is to be expanded and made mandatory, especially for teachers with many years of service. The platform regards many of today's teaching and learning methods as outdated.

Lessons should become more modern. The FDP thinks many methods are out of date. Teachers should therefore do more training. For older teachers, this training should be required.

The FDP wants to broaden language offerings at all schools and provide more subject teaching in English. European exchange programs such as Erasmus+ are to become better known in schools and be used more often. The platform justifies this with an increasingly international world in which language skills are necessary.

Students should be able to learn more languages. Some subjects should be taught in English more often. Schools should use exchange programs in Europe more. This way young people get to know other countries.

The FDP wants politics and economics established as stand-alone subjects taught weekly from secondary school onward. Lessons should also prepare students better for everyday life, for example on personal finances and legal matters. The platform considers Bremen's current requirements for economic education too loose.

Politics and economics should be their own school subjects. They should be on the schedule every week. School should also teach more knowledge for daily life. This includes handling money and legal questions.

The FDP wants to allow Bundeswehr youth officers to inform students at Bremen schools about security and defense policy. According to the platform, this is currently not permitted in the state of Bremen, unlike in many other German states.

Experts from the Bundeswehr, the German armed forces, should be allowed into Bremen schools. They should inform students about security and defense. The FDP says this is not allowed in Bremen so far. The FDP wants to change that.

The FDP wants to anchor existing Gymnasien (academic-track schools) in the school law and found new ones where needed. More Gymnasien are to offer the Abitur after 13 years without abolishing the 12-year route. A trial period in grades 5 and 6 is to determine whether a child stays or moves to an Oberschule (comprehensive school).

The FDP wants to keep the Gymnasien and found new ones. A Gymnasium is a school that leads to the Abitur, the university entrance diploma. More of them should offer it after 13 years. The fast route after 12 years should stay. Grades 5 and 6 should be a trial period. After that the child stays or changes schools.

Within four years, the FDP wants to create a state scholarship for at least 3,000 gifted students from low-income families. In addition, the talent school pilot from North Rhine-Westphalia is to be brought to Bremen and Bremerhaven. According to the platform, educational opportunity should not depend on parents' income or the neighborhood.

The FDP wants a scholarship for school students. A scholarship is support with money. At least 3,000 gifted children from poor families should get it. There should also be talent schools like in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The FDP calls for a program to make up for learning gaps from the pandemic. It includes a broad assessment of learning levels, more support and tutoring programs, and voluntary summer schools. In the platform's view, school closures and unprepared digital teaching caused serious deficits.

Many children learned less during the COVID period. The FDP wants to make up for that. First, schools should check what the children know. Then there should be more tutoring. In the summer break there should be voluntary learning offers.

The FDP wants all vocational schools to operate independently and be equipped to current standards. Schools are to prepare students neutrally for both university and dual vocational training, since the platform believes training has received too little attention lately. Vocational Gymnasien are to count as an equal alternative to regular upper secondary school.

Vocational schools should be able to decide many things themselves. They should get modern equipment. Schools should inform fairly about university and job training. The FDP thinks training in companies has been neglected.

The FDP wants training at vocational schools for health and care professions to be free of tuition. Training for preschool teachers, by contrast, is to be organized as a dual program. In addition, the Aufstiegs-BAföG (aid for career advancement training) is to be used more in the state, and the BAföG process is to be fully digital.

Some training programs charge school fees. This is true for speech therapists or occupational therapists, for example. The FDP wants to end these fees. Preschool teachers should learn at a workplace and at school in the future.

The FDP wants to make Bremen and Bremerhaven leaders in digital education. Digital and hybrid learning are to be a permanent part of the school system, schools are to be technically equipped, and their administration digitized. Students are to learn how to handle technology and data responsibly.

Schools should become more digital. Every classroom should have good Wi-Fi. Every school should get a staff member for the technology. Children should learn how to use the internet safely. Paper forms in school offices should go away.

The FDP wants to give universities more freedom: they are to set their own priorities in research and teaching and decide on their staff by themselves. The party explicitly supports private universities and professorships endowed by companies.

Universities should be allowed to decide more on their own. They should choose their own topics. They should also hire and dismiss staff themselves. The FDP also supports private universities.

The FDP rejects statutory civil clauses and also wants to abolish universities' internal ones, especially at the University of Bremen. Civil clauses commit universities to research for civilian purposes only. According to the platform, research and teaching with a military connection are to be supported.

Some universities may not do research for the military. This rule is called a civil clause. The FDP wants to end such rules. Universities in Bremen should also be allowed to do research for military purposes.

The FDP wants to raise universities' core funding so that they reach the national average. The platform considers today's funding inadequate and sees resulting disadvantages in recruiting and a heavy dependence on third-party funds. In Bremerhaven, the number of study places is to rise to 5,000 in the medium term.

Universities in Bremen should get more money. They should be able to plan with this money long term. Old buildings should be renovated. Bremerhaven should have 5,000 study places in the future.

The FDP wants to make an orientation semester possible at all universities in the state, taking up a proposal from Hochschule Bremen. According to the platform, better guidance in choosing a degree should lower the number of dropouts.

The FDP wants to make an orientation semester possible. There, young people can get to know different subjects. This helps them find the right degree. Then fewer people drop out of university.

The FDP wants to support continuing education during working life with a "Midlife-Bafög" (a midlife education grant) and personal Freiraumkonten (learning accounts). Employees could save part of their pay in these accounts free of tax and social contributions to fund training. The program argues that technological change requires constant learning.

The FDP wants people to keep learning during their working life. There should be a personal learning account for this. Workers can save money for courses there without paying tax. People with low or middle incomes get extra support. This support is called Midlife-Bafög.

The FDP wants to make Bremen more attractive for aspiring lawyers because the state competes with other German states for young talent. To that end, law studies, exams, and the Referendariat (post-graduate legal traineeship) are to be improved and trainees paid better.

The FDP wants to improve legal training in Bremen. Exams should be possible on a computer. There should be more places for legal trainees. Trainees should get more money.

The FDP wants to expand swimming lessons for children and teenagers and let daycare centers get children used to water. Swimming in lakes and rivers is to become part of training in order to prevent drowning accidents. In Bremerhaven, swimming at the Weserstrandbad is to be allowed again.

More children should learn to swim. Even in daycare, they should get used to water. Children should also practice in lakes and rivers. This should mean fewer swimming accidents. In Bremerhaven, people should be allowed to swim at the Weser beach again.

The Greens want to raise the quality of early childhood education through binding standards. These are to be written into the contracts between the municipality and daycare providers. Inclusion in daycare centers is also to get a binding basis.

The Greens want better daycare centers. There should be fixed rules for quality. The rules should be part of the contracts with daycare providers. Providers are the groups that run daycare centers. There should also be fixed rules for children with special needs.

The Greens want to strengthen the last daycare year before children start school in order to make education fairer. Daycare centers and elementary schools are also to work more closely together so the transition goes smoothly.

The Greens want to strengthen the last year of daycare. More children should attend daycare before school. Daycare centers and elementary schools should work together more closely. This should make the move to school easier.

The Greens want to train, recruit and retain more early childhood educators. Training is to become more attractive and more often paid. The program points to the heavy strain on staff caused by the shortage of skilled workers.

Daycare centers lack trained staff. The Greens want to win more people for the job. Training should become more attractive. More trainees should get paid. Experienced staff should stay in the job.

The Greens want to require every school to begin a quality development process and provide advisers for it. Schools are to decide on content and priorities themselves. The program cites social inequality and students missing minimum standards in German and math.

The Greens want to improve schools. Every school should work on its quality. Advisers should support the schools. Schools should choose their own priorities. An institute should collect and analyze data for this.

The Greens want to promote multilingualism in schools and offer lessons in more heritage languages as part of the regular timetable. The program notes that most children in the state of Bremen grow up with more than one language.

Many children in Bremen speak several languages. The Greens want to support this. Schools should offer lessons in more heritage languages. These are languages children know from home. More teachers should be trained for this.

The Greens want to improve the quality of inclusive teaching, staffing levels, and teacher training and continuing education. Assistants are increasingly to be employed permanently at schools. According to the program, the goal is the best possible participation for all children with impairments.

In Bremen, children with and without disabilities learn together. The Greens want to improve this further. Schools should get more permanent assistants. Children with autism or ADHD should get help more easily. They should not have to tell everyone about their condition.

The Greens want to close the special-needs school on Fritz-Gansberg-Straße as planned when its guarantee of continued operation ends in 2024. In its place, mainstream schools are to get more preventive support, and intensive educational programs are to be set up outside the regular school.

Bremen has a special school for children with social and emotional difficulties. The Greens want to close this school in 2024. The children should learn at regular schools. These schools should get more help. For hard times there should be extra programs outside the school.

The Greens want to support schools in expanding all-day schooling and, in the medium term, move everywhere to the compulsory all-day model, in which the whole school day is mandatory. Homework is to serve only as practice, so that children do not need help from parents.

The Greens want more all-day schools. Later, all schools should have a fixed all-day program. This means all children stay at school until the afternoon. Homework should only be for practice. Children should not need help from their parents for it.

The Greens want to give schools noticeably more money for teaching and learning materials and distribute it more strongly according to social criteria. The program cites rising student numbers and high inflation as reasons.

Schools need money for books and materials. The Greens want to give them more money for this. Schools with many poor families should get the most. For many parents there, school materials cost too much.

The Greens want to permanently fund tablets and digital learning infrastructure in schools and introduce technical support by professional staff. Digital and analog forms of learning are to be better combined, without digital replacing analog.

Schools in Bremen have tablets. The Greens want to secure the money for them for the long term. Experts should take care of the technology. Teachers then no longer have to do that. Learning with tablets and learning without them should fit together well.

The Greens want teachers at schools with a high social index to have fewer required teaching hours. Disadvantaged neighborhoods are also to get enough teachers and early-childhood educators, because according to the program far fewer people apply for jobs there.

Some schools are in poor neighborhoods. Work there is especially hard for teachers. The Greens want them to teach fewer hours there. That gives them more time to talk with parents. These neighborhoods should also get enough teachers.

The Greens want to establish teams drawn from different professions at schools and gradually extend school social work to all schools. In the program's view, this is the best way to handle the growing demands on schools.

Schools should not only have teachers. The Greens want teams from many professions. These include social workers and speech therapists, for example. They should all work together as equals. Step by step, every school should get school social work.

The Greens want to make it easier and faster for immigrant teachers and career changers to enter the school service. The aim is to keep potential staff from failing because of excessive hurdles and to make teaching staffs more diverse.

Bremen does not have enough teachers. The Greens want to make it easier to become a teacher. This applies to people from other countries and from other jobs. They can catch up on missing language skills while working. Young people should also get into teacher training more easily.

The Greens want to pay prospective teachers more during the Referendariat (post-university practical teacher training). Those who commit to working in Bremen afterward are to receive an additional bonus.

After university, future teachers do practical training. It is called Referendariat. The Greens want to pay more money during this time. Those who stay in Bremen afterward get an extra amount. This should bring more teachers to work in Bremen.

The Greens want to renew Bremen's cross-party school agreement (Schulkonsens), which expires in 2028, by starting talks early with the other democratic parties. Rather than fixing structures, the new agreement should set goals so that every type of school is open to every child. They also want a pilot school running from grade 1 to grade 13.

Bremen's parties have an agreement about schools. It ends in 2028. The Greens want to talk early about a new one. Every school should be open to every child. One test school should cover grades 1 to 13.

The Greens want to raise the standing of vocational schools so they rank equally with general schools and university study. Young people who do not find a training place after lower secondary school should get more support. School sites are to be modernized along the lines of the existing campus plans.

The Greens want to strengthen vocational schools. Job training should count as much as a university degree. Some young people find no training place after school. They should get more help. Vocational schools should get better buildings and equipment.

The Greens want young people to have access to historical and civic education outside school as well. To that end, the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung (state agency for civic education) is to be strengthened and reach more young people. Civic education for working adults is also to be made easier.

The Greens want more civic education for young people. The state agency for civic education should get more support. It should work more often in schools and youth centers. Working people should also find it easier to take civic courses.

The Greens want to press in future budgets for education spending in the state of Bremen to keep rising. The goal is to bring spending per student step by step up to the level of the other city-states, Berlin and Hamburg.

The Greens want to spend more money on education. Bremen should spend as much per student as Berlin and Hamburg. This should happen step by step. The money is for school buildings, all-day schools, inclusion and digital tools.

The Greens want universities and research institutes to have a stronger presence in downtown Bremen, including a partial move of the University of Bremen. The platform calls this a historic opportunity for both the universities and the city center. A separate plan is to cover the space that would be freed up at the current campus.

The Greens want more science in downtown Bremen. Part of the university should move there. Other colleges should be included too. There should be a separate plan for the old campus.

The Greens want to replace the state's science plan, which expires in 2025, with a Science Plan 2030 that gives public universities a reliable financial outlook. Spending per student should not be cut further but should gradually move toward the national average.

Bremen has a plan for its universities. This plan ends in 2025. The Greens want a new plan up to 2030. Universities should know for sure how much money they get. Money per student should not go down. It should rise bit by bit.

The Greens want students to be able to study without money worries. They will push at the federal level for higher BAföG (student aid) rates and aid that does not depend on parents' income, and they will not bring back an administrative fee for students in Bremen.

Money should not stop anyone from studying. The Greens want higher BAföG. BAföG is money from the state for students. It should no longer depend on what parents earn. Bremen should get more places in student housing. Each campus should offer counseling for students in a crisis.

The Greens want to keep funding research in the state as a whole while setting priorities, for example in climate, health, materials, computer science and aerospace. They stand by the universities' Zivilklausel (civil clause), the self-commitment not to do research for military purposes.

The Greens want to keep funding research in Bremen. Some topics should get special attention. These include climate, health, robots and space travel. The universities have chosen not to do research for the military. The Greens still support this.

The Greens want to enlarge Hochschule Bremerhaven with new professorships, faculties and more study places, and to better equip Hochschule Bremen for teaching. Dual study programs are to grow in both cities because, in the party's view, they secure skilled workers for local companies.

The university of applied sciences in Bremerhaven should grow. It should get more subjects and more students. The one in Bremen should get more money for teaching. There should be more dual study programs. In these, you study and work at a company at the same time.

The Greens want everyone who meets the requirements to be able to study, regardless of background, money or disabilities. To that end, German language requirements are to be lowered or dropped in suitable subjects, people with vocational qualifications admitted more easily, and universities made accessible.

The Greens want to open university to more people. Some subjects do not need very good German. The language rules there should be relaxed. People with job training should find it easier to study. Universities should have no barriers for people with disabilities.

The Greens want all four groups at universities to carry equal weight on every governing body. At present, professors have more say than students and staff. People who serve on these bodies are to get relief from other duties.

Universities have committees that make decisions. Professors have more votes there today. The Greens want to change that. All groups should have the same say. People on committees should get less other work in return.

The Greens want to expand teacher training to ease the teacher shortage in Bremen and Bremerhaven. The sports education program at the University of Bremen is to be brought back. Gender studies are also to become a firm part of research and teaching again.

Bremen does not have enough teachers. So the Greens want to strengthen teacher training. The sports education program should return to the university. Gender studies should also get more room again. Gender studies look at the roles of the sexes.

The Greens want to raise the quality of teaching at universities. Instructors are to have a regular right to training in teaching methods, and there is to be more permanent staff for teaching and program administration. Ongoing teaching duties are no longer to be handed to lower-paid adjunct lecturers.

The Greens want better teaching at universities. Teachers should be able to get training every five years. There should be more permanent jobs for teaching. Adjunct lecturers are helpers with lower pay. They should no longer do permanent tasks.

The Greens want international cooperation in research and teaching only where it benefits democracy. Propaganda and intimidation of critical students or researchers by representatives of other states are not to occur at Bremen's universities. The party rejects cooperation with the Confucius Institute.

Universities work with partners in other countries. The Greens say this must help democracy. Other states must not threaten students. The Greens name China here. There should be no work with the Confucius Institute.

The Greens want more Bremen schools to take part in the EU exchange program Erasmus Plus and more Europaschulen (Europe schools) to be set up. Students and trainees should experience European exchanges early on.

Erasmus Plus is an EU program for exchanges abroad. The Greens want more Bremen schools to join. Trainees should go abroad more often too. There should be more Europe schools with partner schools.

The Greens want children to learn hands-on where food comes from and how to cook healthy, affordable meals. Schools and daycare centers are to get gardens and teaching kitchens for this. At the federal level, the party wants a ban on advertising for unhealthy, sugary products that targets children.

Children should learn where their food comes from. Schools and daycare centers should get a garden and a kitchen for learning. This applies where there is enough space. The Greens also want a ban on ads for unhealthy food aimed at children.

The Left does not want to extend the existing "Schulkonsens" (cross-party school pact), which it says has blocked reforms. Instead, an inquiry commission is to work out how Bremen can break the link between social background and educational success.

In Bremen, success at school depends a lot on the family. The Left wants to change that. A commission should make a plan for it. Schools with many problems should get the most money and staff. Every child should get a daycare place.

The Left wants swimming lessons to start as early as second grade and wants PE in schools to be guaranteed. Swimming courses canceled because of the COVID pandemic are to be made up.

Children should learn to swim earlier. Swimming lessons should start in second grade. Canceled courses should be made up. PE should more often be taught by trained PE teachers.

The Left wants to introduce a training fund into which all companies pay. Larger firms are to contribute more than small ones, and companies that do not train are to help finance those that do, so that every young person gets a chance at an apprenticeship.

There are too few apprenticeship places in Bremen. The Left wants to set up a fund. All companies pay money into it. Big companies pay more than small ones. The money helps the companies that train. That way more young people should get a place.

The Left wants to guarantee career guidance and internships for everyone from eighth grade on and to expand outreach counseling. Language-sensitive exams and more affordable housing are meant to make it easier for apprentices to graduate and manage daily life.

All students should get to know jobs from grade 8 on. They should also be able to do internships. Advisers should go to young people in the neighborhoods. Exams should use simpler language. There should be more cheap housing for apprentices.

The Left wants to make training at vocational schools, for example for nursing and childcare professions, free of charge and paid. The off-the-job training networks are to be developed further, and there are to be more part-time apprenticeships and more women in dual vocational training.

Bremen needs many new skilled workers for nursing and childcare. Training at vocational schools should cost nothing. Trainees there should get paid. There should be more part-time training. That helps people who look after children or care for relatives.

The Left wants training for daycare professionals to be paid throughout and wants more training places to fix the staff shortage. Career changes and recognition of foreign qualifications should become easier.

Daycare centers lack trained staff. The Left wants to pay people during training. That way more people should learn the job. Foreign qualifications should also be recognized more easily.

The Left wants smaller daycare groups and more staff per child, starting in disadvantaged neighborhoods. All daycare centers should be inclusive, and the federal Sprach-Kitas (language daycare) program should be continued and expanded.

The Left wants smaller groups in daycare. A group should have 15 children. That helps children learn to speak better. Children with and without disabilities should go to daycare together.

The Left wants to let Bremen's cross-party school agreement expire in 2028 and convert the Gymnasien (academic-track high schools) into inclusive schools for everyone. In its view, today's school system cements social division and slows innovation.

Bremen has academic high schools and comprehensive schools. The Left wants to change that. All children should go to one kind of school together. The academic high schools should become schools for everyone.

The Left wants to abolish homework that students are required to do outside school hours. Schools should also be supported if they want to move away from written tests and grades.

The Left wants no more mandatory homework at home. Children should do their tasks at school. Schools should also be able to try other ways than grades.

The Left wants to give elected school bodies more decision-making powers and involve students more in shaping lessons. School hours and forms of learning are to become more flexible.

The Left wants schools to decide more for themselves. Students should have more say in lessons. School for teenagers should start at 9 a.m. The fixed 45-minute lessons should become more flexible.

The Left wants to extend digital equipment in schools: tablets for social workers and assistants as well, smartboards, Wi-Fi and IT staff. Teachers should no longer have to administer devices.

The Left wants more technology in schools. Social workers and assistants should also get a tablet. Classrooms should get digital boards. IT staff should take care of the devices, not teachers.

The Left wants to keep redistributing money and staff, based on social data, toward schools in poorer neighborhoods. The aim is equal educational opportunities for children disadvantaged by poverty or a migration background.

The Left wants to give more help to schools in poor neighborhoods. Two staff members should be in each lesson there. These schools should become all-day schools first. Lunch at all-day schools should be free for all children.

The Left wants to keep developing the school system toward one common school for all children and give schools more staff and support for this. Refugee children are also to enter regular school life quickly.

The Left wants all children to learn together. This includes children with disabilities. Schools should get more help and more staff for this. Refugee children should join regular classes quickly.

The Left wants a training drive to recruit more teachers, educators and social workers, and wants teachers' working time recalculated. In the short term, lateral entry and relief measures are to help.

Schools lack many skilled staff. The Left wants to train more people for these jobs. Teachers should be less overloaded. Their working time should be calculated anew.

The Left wants to adjust school location planning to birth numbers and found additional schools instead of overcrowding existing ones. School buildings are to be publicly owned and not rented on a large scale.

The Left wants to build new schools. Existing schools should not get too full. School buildings should belong to the city. The city should not rent them from private companies.

The Left wants to revise curricula and establish work against racism, antisemitism and discrimination based on gender identity as a task across all subjects. Teachers are to receive training for this.

The Left wants more civic education in schools. Schools should work against racism and hatred of Jews. Germany's colonial past should also be taught. Teachers should get training on these topics.

The Left calls for at least €1,000 more per vocational student per year to reach the level of the other city-states. Vocational schools are to be renovated or rebuilt and geared toward joint teaching.

The Left wants more money for vocational schools. It should be at least 1,000 euros more per student each year. The buildings should be rebuilt or repaired. Refugees and young people with disabilities should learn together with everyone else.

With a new science plan, the Left wants to raise the basic funding of Bremen's universities to at least the national average. The former private Jacobs University is to receive no more tax money.

The Left wants more money for Bremen's universities. They should get as much as the German average. The private university in Bremen-Grohn should get no tax money.

The Left wants university staff to be employed on permanent contracts as a rule after completing a doctorate. Teaching assignments are to be limited and better paid, and student assistants covered by a collective agreement.

Many researchers only have temporary contracts. The Left wants to change that. After their doctorate, they should usually get permanent jobs. Adjunct teachers and student assistants should also get better conditions.

The Left wants to make it easier to get into university, especially for children from non-academic families. It rejects numerus clausus admission limits, wants to scrap administrative fees and calls at the federal level for parent-independent BAföG (student aid) as a full grant.

The Left wants more people to be able to study. This should also be easier without the Abitur school diploma. University fees should be dropped completely. Students should not have to pay back their student aid.

The Left wants to create additional study places, above all in teacher training, health professions and social work. Gender research is also to be strengthened.

The Left wants more study places. This applies mainly to future teachers and to social work. Midwives should also get better training. Research on gender should be strengthened.

The Left wants to achieve four-way parity in university bodies, meaning equal voting weight for the four status groups. Student representative bodies are to be allowed to speak on general political issues.

At universities, committees decide many things. The Left wants all four groups to have the same number of votes there. Students are one of these groups. Their representatives should be allowed to speak on all political topics.

The Left supports moving part of the University of Bremen to the city center. A health campus is also to be set up there.

The Left wants to bring part of the university to the city center. All possible buildings and sites should be checked for this. The university should have a say early on. A health campus should also be built in the city center.

The Left wants to bring the private Constructor University into Bremen's public university system and end public money for it as a private institution. In Bremen-Nord, public daycare centers, elementary schools, and youth and cultural facilities are also to be strengthened.

There is a private university in Bremen-Nord. The Left wants to make it part of the public universities. As a private university it should get no more state money. There should be more public daycare centers. Schools and youth clubs should get more staff.

The SPD wants to strengthen Bremen as a location for science and innovation and turn it into the leading technology city in the north. To do so, it is counting on digitalization, artificial intelligence, and robotics. The University of Bremen is to regain its status as a University of Excellence.

The SPD wants Bremen to be strong in research and technology. Bremen should become the main technology city in the north. The SPD is counting on digital tools, artificial intelligence, and robots. The university should become a University of Excellence again. That is an award for very good research.

The SPD wants a state-level continuing education drive to supplement federal funding and close gaps. Workers are to be able to advance in their careers, switch occupations, and catch up on vocational qualifications. Where change eliminates tasks, jobs are to be preserved wherever possible.

The world of work is changing a lot. So the SPD wants to support more job training for adults. People should be able to move up or change jobs. They should also be able to earn a qualification later in life. This should make sure there are enough skilled workers.

The SPD wants to narrow the gap in apprenticeship places and set up a training fund in Bremen for that purpose. The fund would support companies that train apprentices and pay for cross-company support services in dual vocational training.

Bremen has too few training places. So the SPD wants a training fund. This is a pot of money for job training. It helps companies that train young people. It also pays for help for trainees.

The SPD wants as many apprentices as possible to be kept on by their employer, with the public sector and public companies leading the way. Dual training, dual study programs and university study are also to count as equal, with easier switching between them.

Trainees should be able to stay at their company after training. The city and its companies should promise this where possible. They should also train more people than they need. Job training and university should have the same value. Switching between them should be easier.

The SPD wants to create large vocational training campuses where related occupations are taught together. This is meant to reduce the fragmentation of vocational schools, improve support for apprentices and allow shared use of rooms and machinery.

The SPD wants to build big places for job training. They are called campuses. People in similar jobs learn there together. They share rooms and machines. Each campus should have its own daycare.

The SPD wants to sharply reduce the many programs for young people without an apprenticeship and create one central program. It would focus on practical skills and prepare for dual training rather than mainly aiming at school certificates.

Some young people do not find a training place after school. There are many different programs for them. The SPD says this is too confusing. It wants one central program. It should mainly prepare them for job training.

The SPD wants to strengthen career guidance in middle grades, with more time for internships and dedicated youth employment agency contacts at schools. Students are to get to know the options besides the Abitur better.

Students should learn about jobs earlier. They should have more time for internships. Every school should have advisers for job training. There should be required days about vocational training. Parents should get advice in several languages.

The SPD wants to bring school-based training programs, especially in health and childcare, closer to the dual system, with a training contract and pay. Places in practice-integrated training for childcare workers (PiA) are to triple by 2024 and quadruple by the end of the term.

Some jobs are learned only at a school. Trainees there often get no pay. The SPD wants to change this. Trainees should get a contract and pay. For childcare workers there should be four times as many such places.

The SPD wants to update the planning for expanding Bremen as a science location and align it with the existing research and transfer priorities. Exchange between academia and the regional economy is to be strengthened to keep businesses competitive during the transformation. Artificial intelligence is seen as an important future field.

The SPD wants to keep expanding research in Bremen. Universities and companies should work together more closely. This should help the region's economy. The universities should also be better connected internationally.

The SPD wants Bremen to do better in the federal excellence competition. A second research cluster is meant to pave the way for the University of Bremen to regain the status of a University of Excellence.

The federal government honors very good universities. They are called Universities of Excellence. The SPD wants the University of Bremen to be one of them again. For this, another big research project should win in the competition.

The SPD wants to align degree programs more closely with the region's need for skilled workers. In the long run, everyone with a bachelor's degree from Bremen should get a suitable master's place in the state, and Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences should keep growing.

The SPD wants more places for master's degrees. A master's is the second degree after the bachelor's. People who finish a bachelor's in Bremen should be able to do a master's there too. The university in Bremerhaven should grow. This gives local companies more skilled workers.

The SPD wants more students from Bremen to go abroad and more students from abroad to come to Bremen. Among other things, more degree programs are to be offered in English.

The SPD wants more exchange with other countries. Students from Bremen should be able to go abroad more easily. More students from other countries should come to Bremen. For this, there should be more degree programs in English.

The SPD wants to create more dual study programs, which combine university study with company training, and set uniform quality standards for them. It also wants easier movement between vocational training and university so that more people without the Abitur (university entrance diploma) can study.

In a dual study program, you learn at a university and in a company. The SPD wants more of these programs. The same rules should apply to all of them. People without the usual school diploma should also find it easier to study. The workload for students should have clear limits.

The SPD wants to push for a comprehensive overhaul of BAföG (federal student aid). Aid is to become independent of parents' income, apply without age limits, and gradually return to being paid entirely as a grant.

BAföG is money from the state for students. The SPD wants to change BAföG a lot. The money should no longer depend on what parents earn. There should be no age limit anymore. Step by step, students should no longer have to pay the money back.

The SPD wants to further lower the administrative fee that students pay and eventually eliminate it. In addition, the scholarships for starting university are to be kept and expanded.

Students in Bremen pay a fee for administration. The SPD wants to lower this fee further. Later it should go away completely. There are also scholarships for starting university. A scholarship is money to support students. These scholarships should stay and grow.

The SPD wants to bring the University of Bremen downtown with a second location and to set up a city campus and a health campus there. The aim is to link research more closely with civil society, culture, the creative sector and start-ups, and to bring more life into the center.

The University of Bremen should get a second location. It should be in the city center. Then many young people will come downtown every day. The SPD hopes for new things to do and for student housing.

The SPD wants to support Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences in expanding near the city center and to secure funding for the "Schaufenster der Wissenschaft" (showcase of science). This is meant to let people experience the city's research in the middle of town. It also plans investment in events, culture and the digital shift of shops and service providers.

Bremerhaven has a university in the city center. The SPD wants it to grow there. There is also the "showcase of science." People can experience research there. The SPD wants to give lasting money for it.

The SPD wants nursery care for children under three to become free of charge in the long run. Currently, daycare is free for children aged three to six.

Daycare is free for children aged three to six. The SPD wants the same for nurseries later on. Nurseries are for children under three. Parents would then no longer pay fees.

The SPD wants every child to attend daycare before starting school and aims to make this mandatory in the long run. It justifies this with a smoother transition to elementary school and with lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The SPD wants all children to go to daycare before school. Later, this should become a duty. The SPD says children learn important things in daycare. That makes starting school easier.

The SPD wants to keep expanding childcare until every child can be offered a place close to home. The focus is to be on socially and economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. Opening hours are to become longer and more flexible.

The SPD wants more places in nurseries and daycare centers. Every child should get a place nearby. Poorer neighborhoods should get more places first. Daycare centers should also open longer and at other times.

The SPD wants to deploy more trained staff per child in daycare centers over time. Groups in challenging settings are to become smaller so staff can better meet children's needs.

The SPD wants more trained staff in daycare groups. Each staff member would then care for fewer children. Groups in difficult neighborhoods should get smaller. This should happen step by step.

The SPD wants to support children and teenagers in learning German throughout their entire school career. To that end, teachers and daycare staff are to receive further training, the language support plan is to be implemented, and daycare centers and elementary schools are to be linked more closely.

Many children need help learning German. The SPD wants to offer this help from daycare until the end of high school. All teachers and daycare staff should get extra training for this. Daycare centers and elementary schools should work together more closely.

The SPD stands by Oberschulen (comprehensive secondary schools) and Gymnasien as the two school types that both offer every diploma. In the long term, a single school for all remains its goal. Oberschulen without their own upper level are to guarantee a path to the Abitur through school networks.

Bremen has two kinds of secondary school. Both offer every diploma. That should stay. In the long run, the SPD wants one shared school for all children. Every school should offer a safe path to the final exam.

The SPD wants to greatly expand compulsory all-day schooling in Bremen and Bremerhaven so that the legal entitlement to all-day care can be met from 2026/27. For this, and because of rising student numbers, schools are to be newly built and renovated.

The SPD wants many more all-day schools. Children learn there in the afternoon too. From the 2026/27 school year, children have a right to this. The SPD wants to build new schools and renovate old ones.

The SPD wants to tackle the teacher shortage by making working conditions more attractive. In addition, foreign qualifications are to be recognized more easily, and teachers from abroad are to be able to top up their qualifications while working.

Schools do not have enough teachers. The SPD wants to make working in schools more attractive. Teachers from other countries should find it easier to work here. They should be able to catch up on training while working.

The SPD wants to further develop inclusive schooling. All schools are gradually to get permanent school assistants and enough special education staff. Schools in challenging settings are to have two professionals per classroom and smaller classes.

In Bremen, children with and without disabilities learn together. The SPD wants more support for this in schools. All schools should get permanent assistants. In difficult neighborhoods, each class should have two professionals. Classes there should also be smaller.

The SPD considers grades an inadequate reflection of learning and favors written progress reports. Teachers are to get more time and tools to assess individual students' learning. Supplementary funds for schools are to be kept at least at their current level.

The SPD says grades do not show well what a child has learned. It prefers reports on learning progress. Teachers discuss these reports with parents and students. Teachers should get more time to check how each child is doing.

The SPD wants every young person to find a suitable next step into vocational training or university after school. Those who need a lot of support are to get a personal career mentor early on, up to their entry into working life. A transition system is to open a path to training readiness even for young people without sufficient qualifications.

After school, all young people should find a next step. That can be job training or university. Some need a lot of help with this. They should get a personal mentor. The mentor helps until they start working.

The SPD wants to restructure the funds schools receive for teaching materials so that digital textbooks and digital tools chosen by the schools themselves can be paid for. Additional computer science offerings are to be expanded and reach as many students as possible.

The SPD wants more digital school books. Schools should be able to pick the programs that fit them. For this, the money for learning materials will be shared out in a new way. There will also be more computer science offerings. Computer science is knowledge about computers and programs.

The SPD wants to launch a dedicated action plan so that significantly fewer young people leave school without a diploma. Its focus is mainly on boys from low-income households with little connection to educational institutions where German is not the main language.

Some young people leave school without a diploma. The SPD wants this to happen much less often. It wants to make an action plan for this. The plan should mainly help boys from poor families. These families often do not speak German at home.

The SPD wants schools to teach more than before how to check information critically. It justifies this with disinformation and conspiracy narratives on social media, which in its view weaken trust in state institutions.

There is a lot of false news on the internet. The SPD wants children to learn at school how to check news. They should also understand how media work. The SPD says this protects democracy.

The SPD wants to expand education about Europe, both in schools and in teacher training. It justifies this with the war in Ukraine and the goal of keeping the idea of a united, peaceful Europe alive.

The SPD wants children to learn more about Europe. They should get to know values like peace, democracy and human rights. Future teachers should also learn more about Europe. The reason is the war in Ukraine.

The SPD wants to strengthen environmental education facilities and fund them permanently through the regular budget so that more children experience nature. Bremen's Schullandheime (school country hostels) are to be preserved; every child should be able to visit one at least once during their school years.

Children should learn more about plants and animals. The SPD wants to give steady funding to places for environmental education. The city should keep spaces for nature and nature-style playgrounds. Every child should be able to go to a school country hostel once.

The SPD wants schools and daycare centers never again to be closed the way they were during the COVID-19 pandemic. It points to worse opportunities and greater emotional strain for children from poor families.

During COVID, schools and daycare centers were closed at times. This hurt poor children the most. The SPD does not want such closures again.

The SPD wants to keep evening out unequal starting conditions in daycare and school. Institutions with many children in difficult circumstances are to get the best resources, and existing support measures are to grow.

Not all children get the same start in daycare and school. The SPD wants to even this out. Schools and daycare centers with many disadvantaged children should be the best equipped. There should also be more language support.