What do the parties in Hamburg say on education?

The AfD wants teachers to structure and direct lessons more strongly again, and subject content to take priority over a competency-based approach. Teacher training should remain separate by type of school degree. The platform cites findings from empirical education research.

The AfD wants teachers to lead lessons more strongly again. Subject knowledge should matter more. Students should practice and repeat more. Teachers should be trained separately for each type of school.

The AfD wants to give math, computer science, natural sciences and technology more weight in the timetable and set up a funding program together with business. Digital media should support in-person teaching but not replace it. It calls for an overall strategy for digitalization in schools.

The AfD wants more lessons in math, computer science, science and technology. Companies should help with this. Computers should help in class. But they should not replace lessons with teachers.

The AfD wants to strengthen the performance principle in schools: grades would be mandatory from second grade, and a passing grade of 4 would again require half of the points. Repeating a year would become possible, and core subjects would be taught in ability groups.

The AfD wants grades starting in second grade. To pass a test, students should again need half of the points. Students should be able to repeat a school year. In key subjects there should be groups by ability.

The AfD wants violence, lateness and truancy at schools to be consistently penalized. State welfare payments would depend on parents ensuring, for example, regular school attendance, and fines are also planned. Religious bullying should be detected early and stopped.

The AfD wants more discipline in schools. Students who skip school or come late should face consequences. Parents should get less money from the state if their child does not go to school. There should also be fines.

The AfD demands strict party-political and ideological neutrality in schools and wants the school authority to penalize violations. In its view, people at some schools no longer dare to voice their opinion on controversial topics.

The AfD wants schools to be politically neutral. Teachers should not win students over for a party. Those who break this rule should face consequences. Political advertising should stay banned in schools.

The AfD wants parents to no longer decide alone on their child's secondary school, but together with the school. If the two disagree, written exams would decide. It argues that sole parental choice often leads to wrong decisions and social inequality.

Today in Hamburg, parents alone choose the school after elementary school. The AfD wants to change that. School and parents should decide together. If they disagree, a written exam should decide.

The AfD wants to raise standards at Gymnasien (academic high schools) and for the Abitur (university entrance diploma) and stop the trend toward ever higher Abitur rates. Gymnasien could choose to return to a nine-year track (G9), and some would get excellence centers for especially strong students.

The AfD wants the Abitur, the top school diploma, to be harder again. Academic high schools should choose for themselves: diploma after 8 or 9 years. Some of these schools should get special centers for very strong students.

The AfD wants to respond to rising student numbers by founding significantly more new schools rather than making existing ones ever larger. This is meant to preserve the model of small and mid-sized schools.

Hamburg has more and more students. So the AfD wants to found many new schools. Existing schools should not keep growing. Schools should stay a manageable size.

The AfD rejects a "school for all" that takes in every child regardless of the type and severity of disability. Special-needs schools should remain, and parents of children with special educational needs should keep the right to choose. In the program's view, the child's welfare must guide every decision.

Some children need special support. There are special schools for them. The AfD wants to keep these schools. Parents should choose where their child learns. First, they should get good advice.

Newly arrived children without sufficient German should first be taught in preparatory classes. They should move into regular classes only after passing tests in German and subject knowledge. Children with no prospect of staying should be prepared for returning to their home country.

Some children are new in Germany. They often speak little German. They should first learn in special classes. After a test, they join regular classes. Children who cannot stay should get ready to go back.

The AfD rejects Hamburg's sex education framework, which in its view seeks to replace marriage and family with "sexual diversity." It wants restrained, biology-based sex education coordinated with parents. It opposes what it calls premature sexualization in daycare centers and schools.

The AfD wants to change sex education in schools. It should follow biology. Children should learn that there are two sexes. Parents and schools should work together. Drag queens should not perform in daycare or primary schools.

The AfD wants to stop funding gender studies courses that it regards as ideological and unscientific. Research on gender should fully take natural science findings into account. More broadly, universities should gain autonomy and face less state bureaucracy.

The AfD criticizes gender studies at universities. It thinks some courses are not scientific. These courses should get no more money. Research on gender should follow natural science. Universities should have less red tape.

The AfD opposes what it sees as an overemphasis on university education and wants the state to strengthen dual vocational training. It aims to fend off EU efforts to weaken the system or the master craftsman title. The high dropout rate in apprenticeships should be reduced through better career guidance.

The AfD values training on the job. Trainees learn at a company and at a vocational school. The state should support this training more. The EU should not weaken it. Young people should get more help choosing a job.

The CDU wants to link universities and research institutes more closely to the city's economic development. Hamburg University of Technology and the University of Hamburg are to grow as innovation hubs, and STEM programs are to receive more funding.

The CDU wants to connect Hamburg's universities more closely with business. More new companies should come out of the universities. Subjects like math, computer science and engineering should get more money. The universities should become more international.

The CDU wants to move the mandatory language assessment for children forward by one year, to age three and a half. Daycare centers are to receive reliable funding for language support. The platform argues that good German is the precondition for education and integration.

The CDU wants to test children's language earlier. The test should come at age three and a half. Daycare centers should get steady money for language help. In school, learning German should also come first.

The CDU rejects gender-inclusive language, which it describes as grammatically incorrect. The official rules of German spelling are to be the binding basis for teaching at all educational institutions in Hamburg.

The CDU does not want gender-inclusive language in schools and daycare. This means spellings like the gender asterisk. The party says they are wrong. The official spelling rules should apply.

The CDU wants to support every child individually from preschool through the end of lower secondary school, based on learning diagnostics, and to review whether the support works. Digital learning systems that adapt to each student's level are to assist.

The CDU wants to check closely what each child can already do. Then each child should get fitting help. Digital learning programs should help. They adapt to the child. Schools should check whether the help works.

The CDU wants all children to have a firm command of reading, writing, speaking, and arithmetic by the end of elementary school. Binding minimum standards are to apply. Children are to be able to stay in elementary school one year longer if needed.

The CDU wants fixed goals for elementary school. All children should read, write and do math well at the end. Children who need more time may stay one more year. What counts is learning, not how long it takes.

The CDU stands by the concept of self-governing schools but holds the education authority responsible for ensuring educational success. School supervision is to be better resourced, and the authority is to take over centrally those tasks that overwhelm individual schools.

Schools should still decide many things themselves. But the authority should help more and check better. It should take on tasks schools cannot manage alone. For example, it should review learning software.

The CDU wants to implement the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in all areas of schooling and to set up more Schwerpunktschulen (schools specializing in inclusion). Parents are to keep the choice between special schools and inclusive mainstream schools. The quality of inclusion is to be monitored more closely.

Children with disabilities should be able to learn well. The CDU wants more schools with a special focus on this. Parents should still be allowed to choose the school. Special schools should get more staff.

The CDU commits to Hamburg's tiered school system and to parental choice between Gymnasium and Stadtteilschule (district school). Within these structures it wants more ability grouping and individual learning time. In the upper grades, advanced and basic courses are to return.

The CDU wants to keep the different school types in Hamburg. Parents should still be able to choose. Children should learn more according to their level. The upper grades should have advanced and basic courses again. Very gifted students should get more support.

The CDU wants to digitalize schools quickly but in an age-appropriate way and to integrate artificial intelligence responsibly into teaching. An official strategy and matching teacher training are planned. Traditional and digital learning methods are to exist side by side.

The CDU wants schools to go digital faster. This should fit the children's age. Teachers should learn how to handle artificial intelligence. Children learn some topics with AI and others the usual way. Teachers should not have to take care of the technology.

To counter the teacher shortage, the CDU wants to create a dual-track teacher training program as an additional path and offer more university and practical training places. Teachers are to be relieved of non-teaching tasks. A pool of mobile substitute staff is to reduce longer periods of canceled lessons.

The CDU wants more teachers for Hamburg. There should be a new way into the job: study and practice at the same time. Helpers should take work off teachers. When teachers are absent, substitute teachers should step in. Fewer lessons should be canceled.

The CDU wants to renovate school restrooms and have them cleaned more often, since students spend more time at school. School meals are to be healthy, regional, and seasonal, and elementary schools in disadvantaged areas are to offer breakfast. In all-day programs, homework is to be reliably completed and checked.

The CDU wants to renovate school restrooms. They should be cleaned more often. School food should be healthy. Some elementary schools should offer breakfast. In the afternoon, children should reliably do their homework.

The CDU wants every school to adopt binding rules on the use of digital devices and to limit use to what is educationally necessary. Smartphones are to be banned in elementary schools as a general rule. Regular student feedback on well-being is also to be introduced.

Every school should have fixed rules for phones and tablets. Phones should be banned in elementary schools. The CDU wants more teaching about good media use. Students should regularly say how they feel at school.

The CDU wants to set up a career guidance center and a citywide internship exchange. Curricula are to be reviewed for whether their content is useful for vocational training and university. The aim is fewer university dropouts and more skilled workers.

The CDU wants to help students more with choosing a job. A new center should show which job fits whom. There should be an exchange for internships across Hamburg. Companies should work more with schools. The curricula should be reviewed.

The CDU wants to strengthen dual vocational training, which it sees as a competitive advantage for Germany. Commercial apprenticeships are to become more attractive through models followed by a bachelor's degree. For the skilled trades, production schools, practice-oriented classes, and school workshops are to be supported.

The CDU wants to strengthen job training. After some training programs, a bachelor's degree should be possible. There should be more classes with lots of hands-on work. Schools should get workshops. More young people should start job training.

The CDU wants Hamburg's universities to allow open, democratic exchange of views and to keep violence, extremism, and antisemitism off campus. A central contact point for people affected by antisemitism is to be set up at the University of Hamburg.

The CDU wants safe universities. Everyone should be able to speak openly there. Violence and hatred of Jews should have no place there. People who face hatred of Jews should get help at the University of Hamburg.

The CDU wants to give public universities more and more reliable funding and to give their executive boards more freedom to decide. Private universities are to be more involved and linked with public ones.

The CDU wants to give universities more money. The money should come reliably. University leaders should decide more on their own. Private and public universities should work together more.

The CDU wants to create a Hamburg science foundation with at least 500 million euros in capital and to expand state research funding. The foundation is meant to make science less dependent on short-term budget cuts.

The CDU wants to start a foundation for science. It should get at least 500 million euros. This should give research steady money. Private donors should join in too.

The CDU wants to repair university buildings according to a priority plan and create a dedicated construction body for new ones. It also wants to fund a shared IT security concept for universities and to lobby for federal money for the PETRA IV research project at DESY.

Many university buildings are in bad shape. The CDU wants to fix them step by step. A special body should build new university buildings. Computer systems should become safer. The CDU wants to ask the federal government for money for the PETRA IV research machine.

The CDU sees a new building for the State and University Library (SUB) as advisable because, in its view, the current one has been decaying for years. It wants to examine whether the library, a "House of Technology," and rooms for the Academy of Sciences could be built together.

The big university library is in bad shape. The CDU thinks a new building makes sense. It wants to check if three institutions can share new buildings. These are the library, a House of Technology, and the Academy of Sciences.

The CDU wants more support for students because of Hamburg's high cost of living. It calls for a big-city supplement to BAföG (federal student aid), a stable price for students' Deutschland-Ticket, more dorm places, and better counseling for mental strain.

Life in Hamburg is expensive. So the CDU wants to help students more. They should get extra student aid. The transit ticket should not cost more. There should be more cheap places to live. Help with mental health problems should get better too.

The CDU wants to launch a program that brings students from abroad to Hamburg for future-oriented science and technology subjects. The background is that, according to the platform, the number of first-year students is set to fall.

The CDU wants more students from abroad to come to Hamburg. This is about subjects like math, computer science, science, and technology. A program should help them in the first year. For example with visas, housing, and language classes.

The CDU wants to give early-career researchers and student employees more reliable prospects. It considers fixed-term contracts sensible in principle but criticizes the widespread use of very short contract terms.

Many researchers only have very short work contracts. The CDU wants to give them clearer prospects. This also applies to students who work at the university. Hamburg should become more attractive for good researchers from around the world.

The Greens want to tackle the staff shortage in Hamburg's daycare centers (Kitas) with a hiring drive. Trainees would be paid during their training, and training capacity would grow. In the short term, current staff would be relieved of tasks outside group work.

Hamburg's daycare centers do not have enough staff. The Greens want to hire more people. People who train for the job should get paid. There should be more training places. Today's staff should have fewer side tasks.

The Greens want to give extra resources to daycare centers with many children who need additional support. The model is the social index (Kess factors) Hamburg uses to fund schools. The program frames good early education as a matter of social justice.

Some daycare centers have many children who need more help. These centers should get more money and staff. Schools already have such a rule. The Greens want it for daycare centers too.

The Greens want to move the mandatory pre-school assessment a year earlier, to age three and a half. Children who need it would receive mandatory language support so that all start school with equal chances. Multilingualism would also be fostered from an early age.

Today children must come for a check at four and a half. The Greens want this at three and a half. Then people see earlier which child needs help. Language support would then be required. Children with several languages should get support too.

The Greens want all schools with social index 1 and 2 to receive additional resources. To that end, the federal-state Startchancen program and Hamburg's 'D23+ Starke Schulen' program would be expanded. The share of children lacking basic skills in reading, writing and math is supposed to fall markedly.

Many children cannot read, write or do math well. The Greens want to change that. Schools with many poor children should get more money. No school in the program should get less than before.

The Greens want to link morning and afternoon learning more closely at all-day schools. Offers in sports, culture and democracy projects would allow individual support, also together with local clubs. Career guidance within the all-day program would be expanded as well.

All schools in Hamburg are all-day schools. The Greens want to connect mornings and afternoons better. There should be offers for sports, culture and democracy. Clubs should take part. Students should also learn more about jobs.

The Greens want to continue the school structure agreed in the 'Schulfrieden' (school peace accord), with Stadtteilschulen (comprehensive district schools) and Gymnasien. Schools should focus on teaching quality rather than structural debates. The party does not see simply lengthening the Gymnasium years as a solution.

Hamburg has district schools and Gymnasium schools. The Greens want to keep it that way. Schools should focus on good teaching. The party does not want to argue about new school types.

The Greens want to reduce the amount of content in school curricula. Creativity, collaboration, critical thinking and communication would instead become the guiding model for teaching. The party puts particular weight on students' judgment in a digital world.

Students have to learn a lot of content today. The Greens want less content. Instead, children should be creative and work in teams. They should think critically and communicate well. They should be able to judge information online.

The Greens want to enable cross-subject teaching, project learning periods and fixed self-study time in schools. Students would learn at their own pace, guided by teachers. Room, time and group structures would become more flexible for this.

Children learn at different speeds. The Greens want fixed self-study time in the timetable. There, each child learns at their own pace. Teachers help and advise. There should also be more projects across several subjects.

The Greens want tests and exams to be taken at different times, especially in elementary school and grades 5 and 6. Retakes and repeat assessments should be possible. Alternative exam formats are to be kept.

Today all children in a class take a test on the same day. The Greens want to loosen that. Children should be able to take tests at different times. They should be able to fix mistakes and retake exams.

The Greens want more flexible paths for students who reach the Abitur (university entrance diploma) faster or more slowly. Plans include a pilot for an eight-year track at Stadtteilschulen, a review of a three-year final stage, and a pilot concept for an upper level built from elective course modules.

Some students need less time to finish school, others need more. The Greens want to allow both. District schools should test an 8-year path. The last 2 years could also take 3 years. Students should choose courses more freely.

The Greens support campus schools that offer both an eight-year and a nine-year route to the Abitur under one roof. The concept is to be developed so that new teaching approaches emerge which other schools can also adopt.

A campus school has two paths to the final diploma. One takes 8 years, one takes 9 years. Both share one head and one team of teachers. The Greens like this. Other schools should learn from the ideas.

The Greens want to build up staff for inclusive schools. Teacher training programs would get a mandatory special-education component, and schools would receive a permanent pool of school aides. Help with learning difficulties would also be available without a diagnosis.

Children with disabilities may attend a regular school. Often there is not enough staff. The Greens want more experts. All future teachers should learn special education. Schools should have permanent aides. Children should get help even without a diagnosis.

The Greens want civic education to be a fixed part of school life from primary school onward. The platform justifies this with the spread of extremism and the influence of platforms such as TikTok, X and Telegram.

The Greens want more civic education in schools. It should start in primary school. Children should learn how democracy works. The party says this matters because of social media.

The Greens want to give students more say in how they learn and how school life is organized. A guideline is to be drawn up together with Hamburg's student council body, the Schüler*innenkammer.

Students should have more say at school. The Greens want to write a guideline for this. The student council body should help write it. This way young people experience democracy themselves.

The Greens want to keep funding exchange programs and make them easier to access, especially for young people from poorer families. Schools should also teach the significance of the EU and global learning.

The Greens want to support exchange with other countries. Young people with little money should be able to take part too. They should get money for it. Schools should explain why the EU matters.

The Greens want children to reflect regularly on their use of phones, social media and online games as early as primary school. The platform points to dangers such as fake news, sexualized violence and addiction.

Children use phones and the internet early. There are dangers there too. The Greens want primary schools to talk about this. Teachers should get better training for it.

The Greens want to give schools more room to shape their work and develop their own profile rather than steering them centrally. The platform argues this creates responsibility and quality; where quality falls short, the freedom is to end.

Schools should decide more for themselves. The authority should set goals but regulate fewer details. Each school should have its own profile. Quality should still be checked.

The Greens want to modernize and further expand schools, including existing buildings. Schools are to be planned as places for the whole neighborhood, and school grounds are to be designed close to nature.

The Greens want to build new schools and modernize old ones. Schoolyards should become greener. Sports clubs and neighbors should be able to use the schools too. Schools should get more help with planning.

The Greens want to counter the teacher shortage with more university places, fewer dropouts and new routes into the profession. Career-changer pathways are also to be tested.

Hamburg needs more teachers. The Greens want to create more university places. Fewer people should drop out of their studies. People from other jobs should also be able to become teachers.

The Greens want to free teachers from administrative and IT tasks and systematically record their workload. The aim is for staff to stay motivated and healthy in the job for a long time.

Many teachers have too much work. The Greens want more office staff at schools. Experts should take care of the computers. Teachers should get regular counseling.

The Greens want all young people to leave school ready for vocational training and able to make a well-founded career choice. Career guidance is to become more practice-oriented, including at Gymnasium schools.

Young people should be well prepared for training after school. The Greens want to give more insight into companies. Trainees should talk about their work in schools. This should happen at Gymnasium schools too.

The Greens want to introduce a guaranteed vocational training place for all young people soon. A levy is meant to support small and medium-sized companies in particular in offering training.

Every young person should get a training place. The Greens want to guarantee this. Companies should pay into a shared fund for it. The money should mainly help small companies train people.

The Greens want to strengthen vocational training as an equal alternative to university. Training fees are to fall, pay in school-based shortage occupations is to be examined, and master craftsman training is to get more support.

Vocational training should become more attractive. The Greens want to lower fees for training. People who become master craftsmen should get more money. Training should be as good an option as university.

The Greens want to give young people closer support when moving from school to work and to reduce training dropouts. Production schools for young people with high support needs are to be strengthened.

No young person should be left without help after school. Trainees should know their rights and be able to report problems early. There should be more counseling and mentoring. Special schools for young people with big problems should get more support.

The Greens want to open up and better coordinate courses in reading, writing, math and digital skills for adults of any age. A regional strategy is to be developed for this.

Many adults cannot read and write well. The Greens want to offer more courses for this. One office should organize all the offers in Hamburg. There should be a shared plan for it.

The Greens want to make education and training possible at every age. Older people are to get free tablet and smartphone courses, and the city's digital services are always to have an in-person service point.

The Greens want people to be able to learn all their lives. Older people get free courses for phones and tablets. The city should stay reachable without the internet too.

The Greens want every child to learn to swim safely during elementary school. To that end, children up to age ten are to get free admission to the pools run by Bäderland. Mandatory swimming lessons are to be moved up to the first two grades.

Every child should learn to swim safely in elementary school. Children up to age 10 should not pay for the pool. Swimming lessons should start in grades 1 and 2. Right now they take place in grades 3 and 4.

The Greens want to maintain and increase investment in science and research. Public universities are to receive growing core funding from 2027 under new Zukunftsverträge (funding agreements), and more than 6 billion euros would go into university buildings over two decades.

The Greens want to spend more money on universities and research. From 2027 there will be new agreements with the universities. Their basic funding should keep rising. More than 6 billion euros are planned for buildings over 20 years.

The Greens reject tuition fees and want subsidies for the Studierendenwerk (student services organization) to rise with inflation. At the federal level they push for a reform of BAföG (student aid), and 2,000 new dorm places are to be created in Hamburg by 2030.

Going to university should not depend on parents' money. The Greens do not want tuition fees. More students should get BAföG, the state student aid. By 2030 there should be 2,000 new dorm places.

The Greens want to safeguard the conditions for free science and keep universities as places of open debate. At the same time, universities are to set up safeguards against antisemitism, racism and other forms of discrimination.

Researchers should decide freely what they study. The Greens want to protect this freedom. People should be able to discuss disputed topics at universities. There should also be protection against hatred of Jews and racism.

The Greens want to support each of the city's universities in its areas of strength. The University of Hamburg is to receive additional funds for its excellence status, and the university hospital UKE would get continued backing for research, teaching and construction.

The Greens want to strengthen each of Hamburg's universities. The University of Hamburg should stay top-ranked and get more money. The university hospital UKE should also keep growing. More people should be able to study nursing at one university.

The Greens want to strengthen Hamburg's research priorities: climate and sustainability research, infection research, quantum technologies and materials research. Findings are to reach business and society faster and on a larger scale.

A lot of climate research happens in Hamburg. The Greens want to expand it. Research on diseases and new technology should grow too. The results should reach companies and people faster.

The Greens want to expand the state's research funding, especially the part that is open to any topic. Universities and research institutes are also to be more closely networked and to communicate their work more to the public. The platform sees strong basic research as a foundation for the city's future prosperity.

The Greens want to give more money to research in Hamburg. Researchers should also be free to choose their topics. Universities should work together better. Science should explain its results to people more clearly.

The Greens want to regulate the sharing of research data through state law without restricting individuals' rights to their data. At the same time, scientific institutions are to cooperate more closely on IT so they are prepared for cyberattacks.

Researchers should be able to share data safely. People should keep the rights to their own data. The Greens want to make new state laws for this. Universities should protect their computers better against attacks.

The Greens want to widen the paths into vocational training, continuing education and retraining in order to gain skilled workers. Universities are to offer short courses for working people, and schools are to put career orientation into practice across all subjects.

Hamburg needs more skilled workers. So the Greens want more ways to learn on the job. Universities should offer short courses for working people. Schools should teach more about jobs. Changing jobs in mid-life should also get easier.

The Greens want to open Hamburg's "Religionsunterricht für alle" (religious education for all, RUfa) to more religions and to non-religious worldviews. Permission to teach the subject should no longer depend on the approval of a religious community. The reason given is that a large share of Hamburg's population has no religious affiliation.

In Hamburg, children of all religions learn together in religion class. The Greens want to open the subject further. People without a religion should also be allowed to teach it. No religious community should have to approve this anymore. The view of people without religion should count equally.

The Greens want to modernize law studies and the legal clerkship and reduce exam pressure. This includes a bachelor's degree built into the course of study, more lenient exam rules and less mandatory material. Hamburg is to take a leading role in the reform and thereby attract young talent to the justice system.

Studying law is very hard. Students who fail the final exam have no degree. The Greens want a bachelor's degree within law studies. Exams should cause less pressure. There should be less material to learn.

The Left wants students to get free food and drinks throughout the school day. Every schoolchild should also receive a digital device and internet access regardless of their parents' means, and schools should get more specialist staff.

The Left wants free food and drinks in schools. This should apply all day. Every schoolchild should get a device for learning and internet access. The parents' money should not matter. Schools should also get more staff.

The Left wants to move away from school grades in favor of learning progress talks and individual support. Homework is to be replaced by assignments completed at school during the all-day schedule. Gymnasien (academic-track secondary schools) should take a larger part in inclusion and integration.

The Left wants fewer grades in schools. Teachers should talk with children about their learning instead. There should be no more homework. Children do their tasks at school. Academic-track schools should also take in children with disabilities.

The Left wants BAföG (federal student aid) that does not depend on parents' income, does not have to be repaid and is enough to live on. Student employees should get a collective agreement, and all universities should receive better basic funding.

BAföG is money from the state for students. The Left wants all students to get it. The parents' income should not matter. Nobody has to pay the money back. Universities should get more steady funding.

The Left wants to bind all Hamburg research institutions to purely civilian research through a civil clause and to enforce it. Such a clause should also be added to the strategy for the city's own companies.

Hamburg universities should not do research for the military. A rule should say so. It is called a civil clause. The rule should also apply to companies owned by the city.

By the early 2030s, the SPD wants to have put more than ten billion euros into school buildings and about two billion euros into sports facilities. Public buildings are increasingly to be built in series using modular construction to save cost and time.

The SPD wants to spend a lot on schools. It should be more than ten billion euros. About two billion more goes to sports fields and sports centers. Buildings should be made from a kit of standard parts. This should save money and time.

The SPD wants to keep the existing school structure of Stadtteilschulen (comprehensive district schools) and Gymnasien (academic high schools). In its view, this stability is the basis for Hamburg's rise in education rankings.

Hamburg has two kinds of secondary schools. The SPD does not want to change that. It says schools could focus on good teaching this way. Hamburg now does better in comparisons.

The SPD wants to reform and widen discounts on school lunches, especially at secondary schools. No child should stand out or be excluded at lunch because of their family's finances.

School lunch should be affordable for everyone. More children should eat for free or pay less. This applies especially to older students. Nobody should see who pays less.

The SPD wants to focus on reading, writing and arithmetic. The share of children who fall below minimum standards in German and math is to be halved in the longer term.

All children should learn to read, write and do math well. Today some children do not reach the minimum goal. The SPD wants to cut that number in half. Small classes should stay. As few lessons as possible should be canceled.

The SPD wants to replace the recommendation for a type of school with a recommendation for a school career path. It also wants to develop new grading formats, pilot a flexible upper secondary level and advance inclusive education.

Today children get a recommendation for one type of school. The SPD wants a recommendation for the school path instead. Schools should test new kinds of feedback and grades. Some schools should try out a flexible upper level.

The SPD wants to train more teachers, open new routes into the profession and reduce dropout rates in teacher training. Teachers and principals are to have less administrative work.

Hamburg needs more teachers. The university should train more of them. There should be new ways into the job. School offices should get more staff. Then teachers have less paperwork.

The SPD wants to continue the current school construction program with new buildings, extensions and renovations, because student numbers grow along with the city. Schools are to be better equipped as all-day places and designed sustainably.

Hamburg is growing. So the city needs more room in schools. The SPD wants to keep building and renovating schools. New school roofs get solar panels. All-day schools should get better furniture and equipment.

The SPD wants to fully digitize more schools and give every student there a tablet. In addition to federal Digitalpakt funds, Hamburg is to put its own money into digital school infrastructure and teacher training.

More schools should work fully digitally. Every child there gets a tablet. Hamburg spends its own money on this. Teachers should also get training for it.

The SPD wants to establish social work at every school and gradually expand multi-professional teams. It points to rising psychological strain among students and the importance of social skills for learning.

Every school should have social workers. They help children with problems. Many children feel under a lot of stress today. Children with disabilities should get more help too. There should be more programs against violence.

The SPD wants to give students more of a say and strengthen civic education. In its view, democracy can only be taught credibly if it is practiced within schools themselves.

Students should have more say at their school. The SPD wants more civic education. Schools should visit memorial sites more often. The shared religion class for all should stay.

The SPD wants to develop vocational training together with its partners in the field. The focus is on childcare, health and nursing professions and on more programs at the Berufliche Hochschule (vocational university).

The SPD wants to improve job training. Jobs in childcare, health and nursing matter most. More young people should want to learn these jobs. The vocational university should offer more programs.

The SPD wants to broaden the offerings of Hamburg's Volkshochschule (adult education center), continue digital learning formats and modernize its rooms. The youth music school is also to be strengthened.

The adult education center offers courses for adults. The SPD wants more courses. There should be new digital learning workshops. The classrooms will be modernized. The youth music school should offer more too.

The SPD wants to expand research fields such as computer science, deep tech and quantum computing and secure funding for non-university institutes. Hamburg is to become better known internationally as a science location.

Hamburg should be strong in research. The SPD wants more professors for computer science. A center for quantum technology is planned. That is a new kind of computer technology. Research institutes keep getting money from the city.

The SPD plans a Hamburg excellence competition that gives selected top researchers a special grant to work with great independence. The aim is to attract international top talent and keep it in the city.

Hamburg should get its own competition for the best researchers. Winners get extra money. With it they can do research very freely. This should bring experts from around the world to Hamburg.

The SPD pledges that studying in Hamburg will remain free of tuition fees. Cafeteria prices and the student services fee are, if possible, not to rise between 2026 and 2030.

Studying in Hamburg has no tuition fees. The SPD wants to keep it that way. Cafeteria food should not get more expensive. Libraries should be easy to use. The big university library should get a new building.

The SPD wants to put billions into renovating and expanding university buildings over the next two decades, applying the model used for school construction. By the early 2040s, Hamburg is, in its view, to have the best university buildings in Germany.

Many university buildings are old. The SPD wants to renovate them and build new ones. That costs many billions of euros. It should work like school construction. In about 20 years the buildings should be the best in the country.

The SPD sets out development goals for Hamburg's individual universities and the university hospital. These include expanding the technical university, a long-term plan for the UKE hospital and building extensions at several sites.

The SPD has plans for each university in Hamburg. The technical university should grow. The university hospital gets new buildings. The University of Hamburg should open up more to its neighborhood. The art and music colleges get support too.