What do the parties in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania say on education?

The AfD wants to strengthen dual vocational training and upskill the existing workforce. For master craftsman training, funding would cover 90 percent of the costs.

The AfD wants to strengthen job training. Schools and companies should work together more closely. People training to become master craftsmen should get 90 percent of the costs covered. There should also be courses for further training.

The AfD wants to relieve teachers of administrative work and bring teachers seconded to government agencies back into schools. A college of education is to be established in the state for teacher training. In the short term, suitable career changers are to help.

There are too few teachers in the state. The AfD wants to take office work off teachers. About 400 teachers work in government offices today. They should go back to schools. The state should build its own college for teachers.

The AfD wants to focus teaching more on mathematics, the natural sciences and practical learning. Social studies would again begin only in eighth grade. The party criticizes that political education is emphasized too early and too strongly at the expense of subject knowledge.

The AfD wants more math and science in school. Lessons should be closer to real-life practice. Social studies should only start in grade 8. The AfD thinks there is too much political education in school.

The AfD rejects rules under which ten-year-olds are taught about sexual topics, family diversity, or changing role models. Lessons should mainly reflect how the majority lives. Programs run under the label of gender mainstreaming are to be removed from schools.

The AfD wants to change sex education. Ten-year-olds should not be taught about sexual topics and family diversity. Lessons should follow how most families live. Programs on gender topics should end at schools.

The AfD wants to introduce a preschool with a binding curriculum and uniform standards in the last year of kindergarten. It points out that one in four children shows major language deficits at school entry. In elementary school, the core vocabulary is to grow and joined-up handwriting is to be taught on a binding basis.

The AfD wants a preschool in the last year of kindergarten. It has a fixed curriculum for everyone. Many children speak German poorly when they start school. In elementary school, children should learn more words. They should also write by hand more often.

The AfD wants to keep the school system divided into tracks by ability. Moving between Gymnasium (academic high school), Regionalschule, and special-needs school should depend on grades and proof of performance, not solely on parents' wishes. The party questions the shared orientation stage in grades 5 and 6.

The AfD wants to keep different types of schools. Children should be placed by how well they do. The parents' wish alone should not be enough. Children with weaker grades should take a test for the Gymnasium. Gifted children should get more money for support.

The AfD wants the Abitur (university entrance diploma) to reliably show again that a graduate is ready for university. Regionalschulen (non-academic secondary schools) are to prepare students for vocational training with a stronger practical focus. State funding for adult education centers (Volkshochschulen) is to rise considerably.

The AfD wants a more demanding Abitur. Whoever has it should truly be ready for university. Regionalschulen should prepare students better for job training. Adult education centers should get more money from the state. Schools should also teach how the economy works.

The AfD wants to secure elementary schools close to where children live, especially in rural areas. Independently run schools are to receive fair and reliable funding. The party sees them as part of a diverse school landscape with competition.

The AfD wants to keep elementary schools close to home. This should help villages most of all. Children should have short trips to school. Independent schools should get reliable funding. Independent schools are schools not run by the state.

The AfD wants to keep and further develop special-needs schools (Förderschulen) permanently. It rejects what it sees as blanket inclusion that would lead to the end of these schools. Regular schools are to be equipped so that children with physical disabilities can learn there.

Förderschulen are schools for children who need special support. The AfD wants to keep these schools. It opposes teaching all children together. But children with physical disabilities should be able to attend normal schools.

The AfD wants to secure the political and ideological neutrality of schools and invokes the Beutelsbach Consensus. Teachers should not call on students to vote for particular parties or to attend demonstrations. It rejects programs that it says are directed one-sidedly against certain views or parties.

The AfD wants neutral schools. Teachers should not promote parties. They should also not call for joining protests. The AfD wants to look critically at outside projects. The teacher should be at the center again.

The AfD wants to strengthen math, computer science, natural sciences, and technology from elementary school on. It plans more STEM-friendly schools, internships from lower secondary level, and regional STEM clusters. Dual study programs are to be strengthened as an equally valuable path.

STEM means science, technology, engineering and math. The AfD wants to promote these subjects more. Schools should get better equipment and good teachers. Students should do internships in companies early on. Schools, companies and universities should work together.

The AfD wants to prohibit private cell phone use at school through grade 7 by regulation. Digital learning platforms are to be expanded from grade 5 but must not replace in-person teaching. The party regards artificial intelligence as an aid.

The AfD wants to ban phones at school through grade 7. Exceptions apply only in emergencies or if the teacher allows it. From grade 8, each school decides for itself. Digital learning should not replace lessons in the classroom.

The AfD wants to give teachers more disciplinary powers by law. In cases of violence and drug offenses, students are to be expelled much more quickly. According to the platform, the goal is schools that do not need police operations.

The AfD wants to give teachers more ways to punish. Students should be expelled faster for violence or drugs. Teachers should have more authority again. The AfD thinks schools will then need fewer police visits.

The AfD wants to expand vocational education and reopen more vocational school locations, especially in the east of the state. To do so, it would allow smaller classes. Master craftsmen and industrial foremen would be recruited to teach at vocational schools to reduce canceled lessons and the teacher shortage.

The AfD wants more vocational schools in the state. Classes may be smaller than today. Master craftsmen should teach at these schools. Students should do more internships.

The AfD wants universities to be guided by quality standards rather than graduate numbers and wants to raise their base funding. It prefers a classical, holistic idea of education over the Bologna system. The law degree leading to the state examination would be offered again in Rostock.

The AfD wants to give universities more steady money. Quality should matter, not the number of degrees. Rostock should again offer a law degree with a state exam. Student aid applications should be handled digitally sooner.

The AfD wants to charge tuition fees to students from countries outside the EU. It justifies this with a higher dropout rate in this group and the fact that many return to their home country after graduating.

Students from countries outside the EU should pay to study. The fee would be at least 1,500 euros per semester. The AfD says many of them drop out or leave afterward. It says people who pay try harder.

The Greens want to improve conditions for apprentices, including better-equipped vocational schools and affordable housing. They plan to introduce an interest-free loan of 1,500 euros at the start of training. The platform justifies this with the future need for skilled workers.

The Greens want to make job training in the state better. Vocational schools should get more staff and equipment. Apprentices should find cheap housing. At the start they get a 1,500 euro loan with no interest.

The Greens want to tie universities' core funding to rising costs and set up a multi-year investment program for buildings and infrastructure. The platform points to a renovation backlog and warns that the state would otherwise lose innovative strength and appeal.

The Greens want to give universities more money. The money should grow when costs go up. Old buildings should be repaired. This should help universities plan ahead.

The Greens want to add more permanent positions at universities and improve working conditions for doctoral candidates. According to the platform, this should let researchers plan reliably and stay in the state.

Many researchers only have short-term contracts. The Greens want more permanent jobs at universities. Doctoral students should also get better conditions. This should keep researchers in the state.

The Greens want to develop a statewide strategy to strengthen students' mental health. Psychosocial counseling is to be expanded at every university location so that students can find support when pressure gets too high.

Many students struggle with stress and mental strain. The Greens want a plan for the whole state. Every university should offer more counseling. Students should not be left alone with their pressure.

The Greens want to strengthen Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as an international place to study and fund international and English-language degree programs through a state program. The platform points to falling numbers of first-year students and the need for skilled workers.

The Greens want to attract more students from other countries. There should be more degree programs in English. The state should advertise its universities around the world. This should also bring more skilled workers to the state.

The Greens want to lower teachers' required teaching hours and make multi-professional teams possible at all schools. The platform argues that teachers in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern carry one of the heaviest workloads in Germany.

Teachers should have to teach fewer hours. Other experts should help out at schools. For example social workers and psychologists. This gives teachers more time for good lessons.

The Greens want schools to decide more for themselves about their focus areas, offerings and grading methods. Curricula and timetables are to be slimmed down. The platform argues that schools often know best what makes them good places to learn.

The Greens want to give schools more freedom. Schools should be able to pick their own focus. Lesson plans should be shorter. There should be fewer separate subjects.

The Greens want children to learn together through sixth grade, preferably at the same school. Students should be able to earn the Abitur (university entrance diploma) after either 12 or 13 years. The platform points to studies saying frequent school changes hurt educational success.

Children should learn together until grade 6. This should happen at one school if possible. Students should be able to finish the Abitur after 12 or 13 years. The Abitur is the diploma needed for university.

The Greens stand by teaching children with and without special educational needs together. Schools are to get more staff and suitable facilities for this.

Children with and without disabilities should learn together. Schools should get more staff for this. Buildings and technology should fit too.

The Greens want to give students a binding say in school decisions and a budget of their own. Counseling and mental health programs are to be expanded as well. The platform argues that only those who experience democracy at school learn to take responsibility.

Students should have more say at their school. Each school should get money that students decide on. There should be counseling for mental health problems. Teachers should learn more about digital media.

The Greens want the state to cover part of the cost of meals in daycare centers and schools if they are certified to the standards of the German Nutrition Society. This is meant to ease the burden on families. School kitchens are also to be subsidized.

The state should help pay for meals in daycare and schools. Families should then pay less. Schools should get their own kitchens. Children should get fresh, warm food.

The Greens want the University of Rostock to offer a law program again that ends with the First State Examination. The reason given is the need for more judges and lawyers in the state so that court proceedings move faster.

The Greens want a law degree in Rostock again. The state needs more judges and lawyers. Then court cases should go faster.

The Greens want to establish age-appropriate sex education starting in daycare and to strengthen sex education programs. The platform sees this as part of education and child protection: those who are well informed can recognize boundaries and better protect themselves from abuse.

Children and teenagers have questions about their bodies and relationships. The Greens want more education on this in daycare and schools. It should fit the child's age. The Greens say knowledge protects children from abuse.

The Left wants to pass an education package worth 300 million euros. The money is meant for more staff and for individual support for children. The party also wants to negotiate what it calls an education peace agreement.

The Left wants to spend 300 million euros more on education. The money should pay for more staff. Children should get better support. The party also wants a firm agreement on education. It calls this an education peace.

The Left wants daycare to remain free of parental fees and wants to improve quality, starting with nurseries and after-school care. Groups are to become smaller step by step. The party also wants a mandatory preschool year.

Daycare should stay free for parents. Groups should get smaller. A nursery group should have four children. An after-school group should have 18 children. Before school starts, there should be a required preschool year.

The Left wants to give schools considerably more staff and build teams drawn from different professions. Teachers would in the future be required to teach only 25 hours per week. Every school is to have school social work.

The Left wants more staff in schools. This includes teachers, helpers and psychologists. Teachers should teach fewer hours each week. Every school should have a school social worker. This should give teachers more time for children.

The Left wants students to experience democracy in practice in everyday school life. Student councils at every level are to receive more money and more rights. Mandatory class councils, a project day and mock elections are added to this.

Students should have more say at school. Student councils should get more money and more rights. Every class should have a class council. Once a year there should be a project day about democracy. All schools should hold mock elections for young students.

The Left wants to make everyday school life less stressful for students. Grades in art, music and physical education are to be dropped, and no more than two exams or tests per week would be allowed. The party points to stress and overwork, especially among children from poorer families.

The Left wants less stress at school. There should be no more grades in art, music and sports. There should be at most two tests per week. There should be a new subject on relationships, sex and health. Students should get digital devices from their school.

The Left wants at least one school social worker at every school, permanently funded through a state program. It also wants more mental health services for young people. The platform says children and teenagers are increasingly strained by stress and crises.

Every school should get at least one school social worker. The state should pay for this for good. There should also be more mental health help for children. The Left says children suffer more and more from stress and crises.

The Left wants to turn all special-needs schools into inclusive mainstream schools step by step. Children with and without disabilities would then learn together. The platform sees inclusion as a task for society as a whole.

The Left wants to change special schools step by step. They should become regular schools for all children. Children with and without disabilities then learn together.

The Left wants BAföG (federal student aid) that is paid regardless of parents' income, does not have to be repaid and is above the poverty line. Cafeterias would offer at least one daily meal for no more than 2.50 euros. In the party's view, studying should not depend on background or income.

Students should get money from the state no matter what their parents earn. They do not have to pay it back. The cafeteria should offer one meal a day for 2.50 euros at most. There should be more places in student housing.

The Left wants permanent positions for ongoing tasks at universities and a collective agreement for student employees. The state's base funding for universities is to rise. To protect academic freedom, universities are to be given the right to appoint professors themselves.

Universities should have more permanent jobs. Students who work there should get a collective pay agreement. The state should give universities more money. Universities should decide themselves who becomes a professor.

The Left wants to modernize the state's universities through a permanently funded digital pact and make them climate-neutral through investment. It also wants to attract more students and researchers from abroad to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

The Left wants to modernize universities. A digital pact with steady funding should pay for this. University buildings should stop harming the climate. More people from other countries should study and do research here.

Together with the federal government and municipalities, the SPD wants to put more than one billion euros into schools and vocational schools. It also wants to secure teaching across the state and reduce the workload of teachers.

The SPD wants to spend a lot of money on schools. It is more than one billion euros. Vocational schools and their dorms get money too. Teachers should have to teach fewer hours.

The SPD wants to continue state funding for youth and school social work at a high level and to examine a central coordination office. Produktionsschulen (work-based training schools) are to be kept and adequately funded as a path into training and work.

The SPD wants to keep paying for school social work. Social workers help children and teenagers with problems. Production schools should also stay. Young people learn practical job skills there.

The SPD wants to make the training of lawyers in the state, especially the Referendariat (post-university legal clerkship), more attractive. The aim is to meet the statewide need for new legal professionals.

The SPD wants to improve training for lawyers in the state. Lawyers include judges and attorneys. The exam rules will be reviewed. Training should cause less needless pressure.

The SPD wants to expand teams of different professions at schools and make all school-leaving qualifications attainable close to home. The school construction program is to grow; 600 million euros from the MV-Plan are earmarked for schools.

The SPD wants more experts from different professions at schools. They should work as a team. People should be able to earn every school diploma near home. 600 million euros are planned for schools.

The SPD wants to give democracy education and lessons on extremism more room in everyday school life. It argues that extremist actors are putting schools under growing pressure. Democracy education is to be part of every subject and of staff training.

The SPD wants more democracy education in schools. Students should learn more about extremism. Extremism means that people reject democracy. Teachers should also learn more about this.

The SPD wants a school system in which children learn together as far as possible and receive individual support regardless of their background. Staff positions freed up by falling birth rates are to stay in the education system and be used to improve quality.

The SPD wants children to learn together where possible. Every child should get good support. Fewer children are being born. The staff no longer needed should stay in schools. This should make schools better.

The SPD wants to promote media literacy and the handling of artificial intelligence in all school types in an age-appropriate way. The school system as a whole is to be developed digitally, including with federal money.

The SPD wants students to learn how to handle media. This includes artificial intelligence. Teachers get training and materials for this. Schools should become more digital.

The SPD wants to gradually make teams of different professions part of the basic staffing of daycare centers and schools. Institutions facing particular learning challenges are to come first.

The SPD wants teams from different professions in daycare centers and schools. These include social workers and psychologists, for example. Schools with many problems get such teams first. Later all should have them.

The SPD wants to support sites where several school types and institutions work together, in order to make it easier to move between tracks. Two model schools are to test new educational concepts, and grading is to be reformed.

The SPD wants to link several school types in one place. This is called an education campus. Children should be able to change school type more easily. Two schools should try out new ideas. Grades and feedback should also change.

The SPD wants to develop a social index of its own for the state. Staff and money are to go specifically to schools where many children need more support.

The SPD wants to share out school money differently. Some schools have many children who need more help. These schools should get more money and staff. The SPD wants to use data for this.

The SPD wants to record teachers' working hours and clearly describe their duties to protect them from overload. Principals and teaching staff are to be relieved of administrative tasks.

The SPD wants to measure teachers' working hours. This should stop teachers from working too much. First there will be a trial. More office staff should help schools.

The SPD wants to tackle the teacher shortage with more qualified student teachers and teachers, backed by high-quality lateral entry from other careers. The reform of teacher education is to be completed with an adapted Referendariat (practical training phase).

The state lacks teachers. The SPD wants to win more people for teaching. People from other jobs should also be able to become teachers. Training should get better.

The SPD wants to help schools maintain partnerships across Europe. Exchange programs and the state's network of Europaschulen (Europe-focused schools) are to be strengthened.

The SPD wants more exchange with schools in Europe. Students should get to know other countries. There are programs like Erasmus+ for this. The state should make better use of EU money.

The SPD wants to better equip all-day schools and improve their quality. In the long run, the "gebundene Ganztagsschule" (an all-day school where the full day is mandatory for all students) is to become the standard statewide.

The SPD wants better all-day schools. Children spend the whole day at school there. Later all schools should work this way. All children should get a healthy and cheap lunch.

The SPD wants to strengthen dual vocational training and put 250 million euros into vocational schools and skilled-trades training centers by 2037. The network of vocational schools is to be preserved across the state.

The SPD wants to strengthen job training. The state should invest 250 million euros. The money goes to vocational schools and training centers for trades. The vocational schools in the state should stay.

The SPD wants to make the Jugendberufsagenturen (youth employment agencies) the central point of contact for young people so that no one is lost when moving from school to work. Career guidance in schools is to be developed systematically.

After school, young people start working life. That is often hard. The SPD wants one fixed place for help. Schools should give better information about jobs.

The SPD wants to keep supporting Volkshochschulen (adult education centers) and evening high schools and to strengthen adult education for the long term. The state's educational leave law is to cover federal employees as well and allow educational trips abroad.

The SPD wants to strengthen education for adults. Adult education centers should stay in town and country. Workers can get time off for education. This should soon apply to more people. Educational trips abroad should also be possible.

The SPD wants to keep all university locations in the state and channel additional investment into universities and research. It wants to protect academic freedom and continue promoting women in academia.

The SPD wants to keep all universities in the state. It wants to spend more money on research. Researchers should work freely and without pressure. Women should get more chances in science.

The SPD wants to keep the first course of study through the master's degree free of tuition, arguing that education must not depend on parents' income. The Studierendenwerke (student services organizations) are to keep receiving support for food, housing and psychosocial counseling.

The first degree should stay free of charge. This applies up to the master's degree. The SPD also wants to support student services. They provide cheap food and housing.

The SPD wants to support universities in going international and in building European University Alliances. The goal is a shared knowledge area around the Baltic Sea that keeps talent in the state and attracts more.

The SPD wants to connect universities with other countries. Countries on the Baltic Sea matter most. There should be joint research and degree programs. More young people should study abroad.

The SPD wants research results to reach businesses faster and aims for more start-ups spun off from universities and institutes. Artificial intelligence is to be researched and used more widely across disciplines. Top-level research and early-career researchers are to keep receiving support.

The SPD wants to strengthen research in the state. New ideas should reach companies faster. More new companies should grow out of universities. Artificial intelligence should also be researched more.

The SPD wants to further step up fusion research in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The program points to the state as home of the Wendelstein 7-X and sees it as a world leader in this field. Laser fusion research is also to grow.

The SPD wants to do more for fusion research. In nuclear fusion, atomic cores merge and release energy. The state has a large research facility for this. Research on fusion with lasers should also grow.

The SPD wants to keep funding university construction adequately after 2030 and to promote climate-neutral campuses. Academic libraries, open access and data centers are to be strengthened. At the same time, university administration is to face less red tape.

The SPD wants to keep paying for university buildings. This should also apply after 2030. Universities should become climate-neutral. Libraries and data centers should get support. There should be less red tape.