What do the parties in Saxony say on education?

The AfD wants early childhood education to follow what it considers proven principles and rejects open concepts in daycare centers. Daycare centers are to be free of ideology and politics and prepare children for school with firm rules. Early offerings in science, skilled trades, fire safety and language are also to be expanded.

The AfD wants fixed routines and fixed caregivers in daycare centers. It rejects open concepts. Children should learn clear rules and limits. They should be well prepared for school. There should be more activities on technology, trades and language.

The AfD wants a school system that is tiered by ability but still allows movement between tracks. Students would learn together through grade 8, and Oberschulen (non-academic secondary schools) would become Technical Oberschulen. Fixed grade requirements would govern the move to Gymnasium.

The AfD wants to keep different types of schools. All children should learn together until grade 8. The Oberschule should become a Technical Oberschule. Only students with very good grades may move to Gymnasium.

The AfD wants to strengthen dual vocational training and vocational schools. In its view, the push for more university-track graduates and weak performance by school leavers endanger the supply of trainees. Schools would teach more economics and career orientation.

The AfD wants to strengthen job training. It says many companies cannot find good trainees. Schools should teach more about business and jobs. Trainees should get more dormitory places.

The AfD wants to keep Förderschulen (special-needs schools). In its view, children with special needs receive support there that regular schools cannot provide. Inclusion should proceed only with a sense of proportion.

The AfD wants to keep special-needs schools. It says children with disabilities get the best help there. Teaching everyone together should happen only in moderation. It should not burden teachers or other children.

The AfD wants to end the "sex education of diversity" in schools, which it calls early sexualization. It wants age-appropriate sex education based on biology instead. Parents would get a legal right to have a say or to veto.

The AfD rejects lessons about sexual diversity. It wants sex education based only on biology. The state should stop paying for such projects. Parents should have a say in sex education.

The AfD considers the Bologna reform a failure and wants to bring back Diplom and Magister degree programs. It says the reform made university studies school-like, created bureaucracy and curtailed academic freedom.

The AfD wants the old Diplom and Magister degrees back. It says the Bologna reform has failed. That is the Europe-wide switch to bachelor's and master's degrees. German should remain the language at universities.

The AfD wants to give universities more base funding so they depend less on third-party grants. Universities would be allowed to select their own students. Certain students from outside the European Economic Area would pay tuition.

Universities should get more fixed money from the state. This way they depend less on outside funders. Universities should be allowed to pick applicants with tests. Some students from abroad should pay fees.

The AfD wants to train teachers at a dedicated Pädagogische Hochschule (teacher training college) again, without the Referendariat. The degree would combine theory and practice from the start. The aim is teacher training planned according to need.

The AfD wants to found a separate college for teachers again. The Referendariat should be dropped. That is the practical phase after university. Students should practice in schools from the start.

The BSW wants no Bundeswehr recruiting in Saxony's schools and rejects military or civil defense classes. The state's cooperation agreement with the Bundeswehr is to end. At universities, the party backs the civil clause movement, which wants military research made public.

The German army should not recruit young people in Saxony's schools. There should be no military classes. Saxony has an agreement with the army on this. The BSW wants to end that agreement. Universities should disclose when they do research for the military.

The BSW wants binding language tests for all children from age three. Where deficits are found, attending daycare or preschool would become mandatory. The party argues that German is the language of instruction and that regular teaching is impossible without language skills.

Children should take a language test at age 3. Those who speak poor German must go to daycare or preschool. This should cost parents nothing. German stays the language used in class.

The BSW wants to ban smartphones and tablets from lessons in the lower grades and focus elementary school on reading, writing and arithmetic. In the party's view, digital learning tools hinder learning. In higher grades, a media literacy subject would teach how to handle digital media.

The BSW wants to ban phones and tablets in class. This should apply up to grade 6, and in elementary school in any case. Children there should mainly learn reading, writing and math. Older students should get a subject about digital media.

The BSW wants to set up teams of other professionals in schools to take non-teaching tasks off teachers' hands. This is meant to let teachers focus on teaching and to end canceled lessons. Training for teaching staff would become more practice-oriented.

Teachers should mainly teach again. Other experts should come into schools to help. These include social workers, psychologists and IT staff. Every school should have at least one social worker.

The BSW wants to give Oberschulen (non-academic secondary schools) and comprehensive community schools more money and staff and raise the standing of their diplomas. In the medium and long term, children would learn together for longer. Clearer admission criteria for the Gymnasium (academic-track school) are meant to prevent overcrowding.

The BSW wants to strengthen non-academic secondary schools and community schools. They should get more money and more staff. Later, children should learn together for longer. There should be clearer rules for getting into the academic-track school.

The BSW wants grades to be the standard for assessing performance at all schools in Saxony. Curricula would again be built around clear, binding content rather than competencies alone. In addition, career orientation in schools would be organized centrally.

All schools in Saxony should give grades. Curricula should set out clear content. Students should no longer be able to drop subjects like history. Schools should organize internships at companies.

The BSW wants to permanently secure all existing schools in Saxony and reopen former sites where needed. To that end, the school law would allow smaller classes. A dedicated program would fix deficits in buildings and equipment.

The BSW does not want any more schools in Saxony to close. Old schools should be able to reopen. Classes should be allowed to be smaller. The state should pay to fix run-down school buildings.

The BSW wants to keep special-needs schools and support centers. It considers inclusion in mainstream schools sensible but limited, and wants those schools to get more staff and materials for it.

The BSW wants to keep special-needs schools. Some children need extra help with learning. They should still be able to go there. Regular schools should get more staff for these children.

The BSW wants to give Saxony's universities more money and staff and decouple funding from student numbers. Locations outside Dresden and Leipzig would also be strengthened. More dormitory places with lower rents would be created for students.

Universities in Saxony should get more money and staff. The money should no longer depend on the number of students. There should be more student dorms. Rents there should go down.

The BSW wants early-career researchers in Saxony to be able to plan their careers with more security. It calls for full-time contracts covered by collective agreements with terms of at least one year, plus a collective agreement for student employees.

The BSW wants better jobs at universities. Young researchers should get contracts under a union pay deal. These contracts should run for at least one year. Students who work for the university should get a pay deal too.

The BSW wants to turn the Hochschulrat (university council) into a purely advisory body. Decision-making powers such as taking part in electing university leadership should return to the academic senates.

Universities have a council. Outside experts sit on it too. The BSW wants this council to only give advice. The university senate should make the decisions again.

The BSW wants a fundamental reform of teacher training, making it a dual degree with practical experience from the start. The program points to the ongoing teacher shortage and a course of study it sees as too focused on specialist knowledge.

The BSW wants to change how teachers are trained. Students should get practice in schools from the start. The degree should ask for less expert knowledge. It should produce good teachers, not researchers.

The CDU wants to make the last year of daycare free of charge and compulsory. It would serve as a preschool year with a curriculum to prepare children for primary school, and early education overall would get more binding goals.

The last year of daycare should be free. All children would have to attend it. It should prepare children well for school. The CDU says it is very important that all children learn German well.

The CDU stands by the tiered school system and wants to strengthen the Oberschule (non-academic secondary school) as its central pillar. Grades, including grades for conduct and effort, would stay, because the party says diplomas should stand for proven achievement.

Saxony has different types of schools. The CDU wants to keep it that way. The Oberschule, a type of secondary school, should be strengthened. Grades should stay. This includes grades for behavior and effort.

The CDU calls recruiting new teachers the main task of education policy for the next five years. Teachers would continue to be hired as civil servants so that Saxony can compete with other German states.

Saxony needs more teachers. The CDU says this is the most important task in education. Teachers should still be able to become civil servants. This should keep Saxony attractive for teachers. All regions should have enough teachers.

The CDU wants inclusion wherever it is possible while keeping and developing special-needs schools (Förderschulen). Additional staff such as school assistants and school psychologists would relieve teachers.

Children with and without disabilities should learn together where possible. But special schools should stay. More helpers should work in schools. These include school assistants and school psychologists. They should take some work off teachers.

The CDU wants to leave more educational and financial decisions to the schools themselves. Each school would get a single lump-sum budget that combines the funds it receives today.

Schools should decide more things on their own. Each school should get one overall budget. This is one pot of money that the school controls itself. The CDU says people on site know best what is needed.

The CDU wants digital teaching and learning materials to be a normal part of school life, alongside analog methods. Schools would receive learning apps and intelligent tutoring systems, backed by media education.

Digital learning tools should be normal in class. Schools should get learning apps for this. There should also be programs that adapt to each child. Children should also learn how to use media well.

The CDU wants career guidance to start earlier and be more intensive at all types of schools. Schools would work more closely with trades, industry, and the employment agency and offer more practical learning.

Students should get to know jobs early. This should happen at all types of schools. Schools should work with companies and the employment agency. There should be more practice days in companies.

The CDU wants to keep supporting cities and towns with state funding to build and modernize schools. The platform treats modern, well-equipped buildings as a precondition for good education.

The CDU wants to keep giving towns money for school buildings. Towns are in charge of school buildings. Schools in rural areas should get the most help. Vocational schools also matter to the CDU here.

The CDU wants to support recognized adult-education providers so that their courses match demand. By the end of the decade, Saxony is to reach the average of all German states in the density of continuing education.

Adults should be able to keep learning too. The CDU wants to support the groups that offer courses. Saxony should have as many courses as the rest of Germany. This should happen by 2030.

The CDU wants to draw up a strategy for dual vocational training together with businesses and to equip vocational schools better. Training is to be tailored more closely to young people's abilities so that no one is left without a qualification and the demand for skilled workers is met.

The CDU wants to strengthen job training. It will make a plan together with companies. Vocational schools should get better equipment. Strong trainees should be able to finish faster. Weaker trainees should be able to do a shorter training that fits them.

The CDU wants to align teacher training more closely with what each school type and subject needs. Training is to move further into the regions, and new groups are to gain access to teaching degrees.

Saxony needs teachers for all schools and subjects. The CDU wants to guide teacher training better. Teachers should also be trained outside the big cities. People who went to an Oberschule should be able to become Oberschule teachers. A prep course can help with that.

The CDU plans a science innovation law that gives the two new large-scale research centers, DZA and CTC, more leeway. Research results are to reach Saxon companies more readily, and microelectronics research becomes a priority.

The CDU wants a new law for research. Two big research centers should be able to work more freely. Ideas from research should reach companies in Saxony. The CDU also wants to support start-ups from universities. Research on computer chips is especially important to it.

The CDU wants to amend the higher education law: student councils are to become student parliaments and general student committees. Students are also to regain the right to leave the Verfasste Studentenschaft (statutory student body).

The CDU wants to change how students are represented. There should be student parliaments. Students should be able to leave the student body again. The student body is the shared voice of all students at a university. Student groups should get clear rules in the law.

The Free Voters want to introduce Bildungsurlaub (paid educational leave) in Saxony. Further training and degrees earned later in life should be used more, helped by advice and information, including on financing.

The Free Voters want educational leave in Saxony. That is time off work for learning. People should be able to earn degrees later in life. There should be more advice for this. The advice should also explain how to pay for it.

The Free Voters want to abolish fees for nurseries and kindergartens and pay for them from taxes. All daycare children are also to get a free lunch. The platform justifies this with equal starting chances for all children.

The Free Voters want nursery and kindergarten to be free. Taxes should pay for it. Lunch at daycare should also cost nothing. All children should have equally good chances when they start school.

The Free Voters want to recruit more teachers and introduce a dual teacher-training degree that provides classroom practice early on. They also call for more school social work, more money and better digital equipment for schools.

The Free Voters want more teachers in schools. Student teachers should work in schools early on. Schools should have more social workers and psychologists. Schools should get more money and better technology.

The Free Voters want mandatory German language tests for children before they start school, along with language preparation classes. The platform sees the growing share of children with a different native language as the main cause of problems with basic skills.

The Free Voters want a German test before school starts. All children must take it. Children with little German first go to a preparation class. The party says many pupils learn poorly because they know too little German.

The Free Voters want to move the recommendation for Gymnasium (academic-track school) or Oberschule from grade 4 to grade 6. In the platform's view, the decision in grade 4 comes too early for many children.

Today the choice of school type is made in grade 4. The Free Voters think that is too early. The recommendation should come in grade 6. Children then have more time to develop.

The Free Voters want to raise the standing of vocational training relative to university study and fund it more strongly. The platform calls dual training (combined workplace and school training) proven and sees it as a foundation of the economy.

The Free Voters want to strengthen job training. It should count as much as a university degree. Vocational schools should get more money and better technology. Young people should be able to train close to home.

The Free Voters want to slim down curricula, focus them more on everyday skills and introduce a modular system of subjects and courses. In addition, Saxony is to push in the Bundesrat for more uniform state rules and a nationwide central Abitur exam.

The Free Voters want to change what schools teach. Pupils should learn more for everyday life. They should be able to choose more subjects themselves. The Abitur exam should be the same all over Germany.

The Free Voters want Saxony to launch a Bundesrat initiative for BAföG (student aid) that no longer depends on parents' income. Universities are to receive reliable core funding, in part so they can do research independently of industry.

The Free Voters want to change BAföG. BAföG is state money for students. It should no longer depend on what parents earn. Universities should get more steady money from the state.

The Greens want a phased plan to ensure that by 2035 each daycare professional is responsible for fewer children. This is meant to support children better and ease the load on staff. Where the number of children falls, staff should be kept on anyway.

Daycare centers should have more staff per child. The Greens want to reach this step by step by 2035. Staff should get more time to prepare. If there are fewer children, the staff should stay.

The Greens want to secure and expand social work in daycare centers permanently, even after current EU funding ends. Language learning embedded in everyday daycare routines should be rolled out statewide. Inclusive daycare centers should get more space, staff and money.

Daycare centers should have social workers for the long term. Right now an EU program pays for this. Children should learn language better during the daycare day. Children with and without disabilities should be cared for well together.

The Greens want to change the rules on who may work in a daycare center. In the future, skills and qualifications should count, not only formal degrees. Professions such as speech therapy or occupational therapy should be a regular part of the team and count toward the staffing ratio.

Daycare centers lack skilled staff. The Greens want more kinds of professionals to work there. These include speech therapists and drama teachers. Skills should matter more than the diploma alone.

The Greens see the teacher shortage as the biggest challenge in education policy. They want to attract and keep more teachers through better working conditions, part-time options and a new working-time model. School buildings should be energy-efficient, digitally equipped and suited to modern teaching.

Saxony does not have enough teachers. The Greens want to make the job more attractive. Teachers should find it easier to work part-time. Schools should have good buildings, good furniture and good technology.

The Greens want every school in Saxony to have at least one school assistant by 2030. The state budget should provide dedicated positions for this. Other professionals such as school psychologists and inclusion assistants are meant to ease the load on teachers.

Teachers should get help in daily school life. By 2030, every school should have at least one assistant. The state should create separate jobs for this. There should also be more school psychologists.

The Greens want a teacher education act for Saxony. Degree programs should be organized by the age of the students taught rather than by school type and include earlier and more frequent practical phases. Career changers should find it easier to enter teaching, and certain in-service training would become mandatory.

The Greens want to change how teachers are trained. There should be a new law for this. Student teachers should practice in schools earlier. People from other jobs should find it easier to become teachers.

The Greens want to make it easier to set up a Gemeinschaftsschule (comprehensive school) or Oberschule+, so that children learn together for longer. Above all, the minimum number of parallel classes required should be lowered. They also advocate compulsory all-day schools funded through multi-year lump sums.

In comprehensive schools, children learn together for longer. The Greens want such schools to be easier to set up. The rules for this should be less strict. There should also be more all-day schools.

The Greens want a statewide social index to direct money and staff to schools facing particular challenges. Schools should also have more say over their own budgets. Inclusive schooling close to home should be guaranteed for all types of special educational needs.

Some schools have a harder time than others. The Greens want to give these schools more help. A social index should show which schools they are. Schools should also decide more about their own money.

The Greens want to give schools that practice inclusion lump-sum funding that the schools can spend as they see fit. The platform argues that the current tools are not enough to make inclusion work.

Inclusion means children with and without disabilities learn together. The Greens want to give these schools more money. The schools decide how to use it. They can pay for rooms or for more staff.

The Greens want newly arrived children and teenagers to get a school place quickly and want to strengthen German as a second language. The platform explicitly describes diversity in schools as a benefit.

Some children are new in Saxony and speak little German. The Greens want to give them a school place quickly. There should be more German lessons for them. This needs more teachers.

The Greens want to stabilize the school network so that education does not depend on where a child lives. Where enrollment falls, the Oberschule+ model would keep sites open, and digital teaching would fill gaps.

There are fewer schools in rural areas than before. The Greens want to keep these schools. Where teachers are missing, there should be more lessons by computer. Schools should work together on this.

The Greens want more young people to finish school with a certificate and plan to expand special learning programs for that. These are meant for students who are disengaged, skip school or struggle with mental strain.

Some young people no longer like school or stop going. The Greens want to help them with special learning programs. They should still get a school certificate. Nobody should use these programs to avoid compulsory school.

The Greens want lessons at all schools in Saxony to start later and at staggered times. Health education would also get more room in the curricula.

School should start later in the morning. The Greens say this is good for health and for enjoying learning. Students should also learn more about health. For example about stress, drugs and illnesses.

The Greens want independently run schools to benefit from state programs just as public schools do. The reduction applied to their staffing subsidies would be dropped.

Some schools are not run by the state. They are called independent schools. The Greens want them to get equal support. A cut in the money for their teachers should end.

The Greens want to maintain and expand the Sorbian daycare and school network to strengthen the Sorbs' language and culture. An action plan is meant to tackle the teacher shortage, which the platform calls an existential problem.

The Sorbs are a minority in Saxony with their own language. The Greens want to keep Sorbian daycare centers and schools. More teachers who speak Sorbian should come. Adults should also be able to learn Sorbian.

The Greens want leaner framework curricula that center on skills rather than reproducing knowledge. The results of the participation process 'Bildungsland Sachsen 2030' should actually be put to use for this.

The Greens want shorter curricula. Students should mainly learn skills and not just repeat facts. Reading, writing and math should get stronger. Lessons should relate more to everyday life.

The Greens want civic education to be a cross-subject part of school life and want students more involved in decisions. For the party this also means schools taking a stand against discrimination.

Students should have more say at school. For example in projects or the design of the schoolyard. This way they experience democracy themselves. Schools should also stand up against unfair treatment of people.

The Greens want education for sustainable development (BNE) and global learning included in every curriculum and in the training of all teaching professions. The platform treats knowledge about environmental and climate protection as a foundation of education, along with support for STEM subjects.

Students should learn more about the environment, climate and sustainability. Sustainability means living so that there is enough for everyone later too. The topic should appear in all subjects. Math, technology and science should also get support.

The Greens want to anchor cultural education more firmly in schools and strengthen arts subjects. School exchanges, education about Europe and learning Czech and Polish would also be supported.

Students should learn more about art, music and culture. A new statewide office should bring everyone involved together. The Greens also want more school exchanges with neighboring countries. Students should be able to learn Czech and Polish.

The Greens want all schools connected to broadband by 2025 and will push at the federal level for a DigitalPakt 2.0. Municipalities would continue to get state help to renovate and build schools.

All schools should have fast internet by 2025. The federal government should pay for devices, tech support and teacher training. Students should learn to handle media and AI well. The state should help towns and cities build schools.

The Greens want to cut significantly the number of students leaving school without a certificate and call for transition management and a training guarantee. Career guidance would rank equally with university guidance at all secondary schools.

Fewer young people should leave school without a certificate. The Greens want a training guarantee. That means every young person should be able to get a training place. Schools should give better information about jobs.

The Greens want a law giving employees in Saxony time off for education and back the citizens' petition for five education days. Continuing education would grow across the board, from job-related courses to basic education.

Workers should get time off to learn something. The Greens want a new law for this. There should be more courses for adults. People should also get help with phones and the internet.

The Greens want to keep student numbers at today's level over the long term to meet the demand for skilled workers. University study should be possible at every stage of life and be inclusive and accessible.

As many people as today should keep studying in Saxony. Part-time study should be possible. People with disabilities should be able to study without barriers. Students in dual programs should get more pay.

The Greens want to bring more students and researchers from abroad to Saxony and keep them there. According to the platform, the state's prosperity cannot be secured unless international skilled workers stay permanently.

More people from other countries should study and do research in Saxony. They should also stay in Saxony afterward. There should be good advice in one place. Universities should work more with neighboring countries.

The Greens want to scrap fees for long-term students because, in the platform's view, they harm academic success. Student services, affordable housing and cafeterias would be secured.

People who study for a very long time pay fees today. The Greens want to end these fees. There should be more cheap dorm places. Students should be able to apply for BAföG easily online.

The Greens want to clear the renovation backlog in university buildings with an overall plan guided by sustainability and inclusion. Universities would get support on their path to climate neutrality.

Many university buildings are old and need repairs. The Greens want one big plan for this. The buildings should be good for the climate and free of barriers. Universities should get their own climate experts.

The Greens want the democratically elected bodies of universities to decide on their internal affairs. Senates and faculty councils are to have equal representation of member groups, and the university council would only advise from outside.

The Greens want more say for people at universities. All groups should have equal weight in key committees. The university council should only give advice. Students who volunteer should get more support.

The Greens want to make academic careers more predictable and steadily increase the number of permanent positions below the professorship level. They call for a collective agreement for student employees. They also want more women in professorships and leadership roles.

The Greens want more permanent jobs at universities. Permanent staff should do the tasks that never end. Students who work for the university should get a union contract. More women should become professors.

The Greens want research results to be freely accessible and universities to lead on open-source software and open teaching materials. State-funded research institutes are to receive regularly rising budgets. Universities of applied sciences should be able to award doctorates themselves in research-strong fields.

The Greens want open research. Everyone should be able to read and use results. State research institutes should get more money each year. Some universities of applied sciences should be allowed to award doctorates.

The Greens support Islamic religious education in Saxony's schools, taught by teachers trained in Germany. Imams under Turkish influence would not be admitted to teach it. As a principle, no one should be favored or disadvantaged because of belief or non-belief.

The Greens want Islam classes in Saxony's schools. The teachers should be trained in Germany. Imams influenced by Turkey should not teach there. All people should be free to live their faith.

The Greens want to strengthen dual vocational training, especially in the skilled trades, to counter the shortage of skilled workers. The network of vocational schools is to be kept. They are looking into founding Azubi-Werke (apprentice service organizations) modeled on student services.

The Greens want to strengthen training in companies and vocational schools. Vocational schools should stay open. In rural areas, apprentices should get housing and transport options. The Greens are looking into apprentice service organizations. These would work like student services, but for apprentices.

The Greens want more young people to complete their vocational training successfully. Young people who are not in school, training or work are to be reached in a targeted way. The youth employment agencies are to keep receiving support.

The Greens want fewer young people to drop out of training. Some young people have no school, no training and no job. There should be special programs for them. Parents should be involved too.

The Greens want training for the master craftsperson qualification (Meister) to be free of charge, putting it on a par with a first university degree. They also want better career guidance and training conditions in the skilled trades. The platform justifies this with the need for skilled workers, including for the energy transition.

The Greens want master craftsperson training to be free. A first university degree is free too. Both paths should count the same. Training in the skilled trades should also get better.

The Left does not want falling birth rates to be used for job cuts and spending reductions. The freed-up capacity is instead to improve care and education in daycare centers and schools. Children are to receive lunch there at no cost.

Fewer children are being born in Saxony. The Left does not want to cut jobs in daycare and schools because of this. Care should get better instead. Children should get a lunch that costs nothing.

The Left wants children to learn together for longer in Gemeinschaftsschulen (comprehensive schools) to overcome social division. It also proposes vocational training combined with the Abitur (university entrance diploma) to better meet the demand for skilled workers.

Children should learn together in one school for longer. This should make society fairer. Young people should also be able to do job training and get their diploma at the same time.

The Left wants to first make lunch in daycare centers and schools free and then phase out parents' daycare fees within five years. In its view, education should not depend on parents' income.

The Left wants daycare to be free. First, lunch should no longer cost anything. Then daycare fees should end within five years. The state should pay for this. All children should have the same chances.

The Left wants to gradually increase the number of staff per child in nurseries, kindergartens and after-school care. To do so, training would be paid, access made easier and working conditions improved. Daycare centers should also work inclusively.

The Left wants more educators in daycare centers. In nurseries, one staff member should care for four children. Training should be paid. Pay should go up. Children with and without disabilities should be cared for together.

The Left wants to replace school grades with learning progress reports and make homework unnecessary through all-day schooling. Curricula would be slimmed down, students would get more say, and feminist education would become part of teaching.

The Left wants no more grades in school. Instead there should be reports on how a child is learning. Homework should no longer be needed. Students should help decide more. Classes should get smaller.

The Left wants to establish the Gemeinschaftsschule (community school with longer joint learning) everywhere in Saxony and make founding such schools easier. It sees this as the school type that supports all children equally and counters social division.

The Left wants more community schools. Children learn together there for longer. Founding such schools should become easier. Every child in Saxony should be able to attend one. No more schools in rural areas should close.

The Left demands that students receive all necessary learning materials, including digital devices, free of charge and that class trips cost nothing either. It also wants free lunch and a dedicated budget for each school.

The Left wants school to cost families nothing. Books and devices should be free. Class trips should also be free. There should be a healthy lunch at no charge. Each school should get its own money.

The Left wants to introduce a new school subject called Medienkunde (media studies) and anchor digital education in the curricula. Media educators in schools would support students, teachers and parents. The party favors building skills over shielding young people.

The Left wants a new school subject. It is called media studies. Children should learn to handle the internet and media well. Media experts should work in schools. Parents and teachers should get help too.

The Left wants to make school social work mandatory at all types of schools, with at least one professional per school. The school psychology service and the anti-bullying program would also be expanded.

The Left wants social workers at every school. Each school should have at least one. They help children with problems. There should also be more school psychologists. Teachers should get help from other professionals.

The Left wants to write a right to inclusive schooling into the school law and scale back the special-needs school system. Children with and without disabilities would learn together in mainstream schools; the party considers the current system incompatible with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

The Left wants one school for all children. Children with and without disabilities should learn together. This should be written into law. There should be fewer special schools. School buildings should have no barriers.

The Left wants Germany's states to cooperate more closely on education and to set this down in an interstate treaty. It would mainly coordinate teacher training and balance its costs among the states.

The German states should work together more on education. The Left wants a treaty between the states for this. Each state should train enough teachers. The states should share the costs fairly.

The Left wants to replace school grades with reports on learning progress and to abolish homework. Subject lessons should also not start before 9 a.m., at least for older students. The platform cites pressure on students, the limited benefit of homework and young people's sleep rhythm.

The Left wants no more grades in school. Students should get reports about their learning instead. Homework should end too. For older students, lessons should start at 9 a.m. at the earliest.

The Left wants to reduce teachers' workload so they can focus on teaching. Falling student numbers should be used for smaller classes rather than for saving money. The party rules out school closures, especially in rural areas.

Teachers should have less strain. Other experts should take over some of their tasks. Classes should get smaller. No school should close. The Left wants to win more teachers with scholarships.

The Left wants to reorganize teacher training into university studies, career entry and continuing education. Teachers would be trained by school level rather than school type, with earlier practical phases and support for placements in rural areas.

The Left wants to change how teachers are trained. They should train for age levels, not for one type of school. Practice in schools should start earlier. Students who do practice in rural areas should get more money.

The Left wants statewide education vouchers for courses and further training. Volkshochschulen (adult education centers) and other recognized providers would get secure basic funding from the state so that everyone in Saxony can learn throughout life.

Everyone in Saxony should be able to learn all their life. The Left wants vouchers for courses. Adult education centers should get secure money from the state. Course teachers should get fair pay.

The Left wants to reduce apprenticeship dropouts through career counseling at all secondary schools, tighter checks on training conditions and more support. Vocational training is also to become inclusive and break down gender stereotypes.

Many young people quit their apprenticeship. So the Left wants more career advice in schools. Authorities should check companies more closely. People with disabilities should be able to do an apprenticeship.

The Left wants to sharply reduce fixed-term and insecure employment at universities. Permanent tasks should come with permanent positions, and at the federal level the Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz (law on fixed-term academic contracts) should be replaced by a new law.

Many university staff only have temporary contracts. The Left wants more permanent jobs. Student employees should get a union contract. A federal law on temporary contracts in science should be dropped.

The Left wants to ease access to university and give students financial security. Tuition fees and the numerus clausus (grade-based admission cap) would be abolished and basic income support for students introduced. Until then, BAföG (student aid) should become a grant that does not depend on parents' income.

Going to university should be easier. The Left wants to end all tuition fees. The numerus clausus should go too. That is admission based on grades. All students should get money to live on.

The Left wants a strategy for open access, meaning free access to scholarly publications. Research paid for with public money in Saxony should be available to everyone. Research should also not be judged only by its commercial usefulness.

Research often costs tax money. The Left wants everyone to be able to read the results. This should be written into the university law. Non-profit research should also get support. Universities should also become climate neutral.

The Left wants to turn physical education into a daily offering for movement and health and abolish grades in PE. Instead of competition, assessment is to be based on each child's starting point and progress. School sports should be possible everywhere.

The Left wants to change PE classes. Children should move every day at school. There should be no more grades in PE. What counts is each child's own progress.

Despite falling numbers of children, the SPD does not want to close any schools or daycare centers and wants to keep the freed-up money in the education system. Instead, a dense school network, smaller classes and renovated buildings are meant to raise quality.

There are fewer children in Saxony. The SPD still does not want to close any school or daycare center. The money should stay in education. Classes should get smaller. Buildings should be modernized.

The SPD regards vocational and academic training as equal in value and wants to make it easier to move between the two. Besides a higher Meisterbonus, there is to be a comparable bonus for other advanced vocational qualifications and wider university access for people with vocational credentials.

The SPD says: An apprenticeship and a degree are worth the same. People who become master craftsmen get a bigger bonus. Technicians and certified business specialists should also get a bonus. People with job training should find it easier to go to university.

The SPD wants to secure classroom teaching through more staff and relief for teachers and rejects larger classes or more mandatory teaching hours. Teacher training is to be reorganized by a dedicated law and made more practical.

Saxony does not have enough teachers. The SPD wants more staff in schools. Classes should not get bigger. Teacher training should change. Students should work in schools earlier.

The SPD wants to help all young people earn a school diploma and a vocational qualification and to make it easier to obtain them later. Those who drop out of training or university are to receive advice and support in finding a new path.

The SPD wants all young people to finish with a diploma. People should also be able to earn one later. For example at an adult education center. People who drop out of training should get advice.

The SPD wants to amend the school law soon and comprehensively and to revise and slim down timetables and curricula. Schools are to work more independently, get their own budgets and be supported by teams from different professions.

The SPD wants to change the school law. Curricula should contain less material. Schools should decide more for themselves and get their own money. Besides teachers, other professionals should work in schools too.

The SPD backs keeping children together in school longer and wants to drop the Bildungsempfehlung (the formal recommendation on which secondary school track a child should attend). Gemeinschaftsschulen (comprehensive schools) are to be easier to set up, including with three classes per grade.

Children should learn together in one school for longer. The SPD wants to drop the school-track recommendation. This is the advice on which school a child attends after primary school. Comprehensive schools should be easier to open. Everyone should finish school with a diploma.

The SPD wants vocational and academic education to be treated as equals and plans a training fund financed by a levy. It is meant to support small businesses in training apprentices and help pay for joint and off-the-job training.

The SPD wants to strengthen job training. Companies should pay into a shared fund. Small companies get help from the fund to train young people. Vocational schools should become more modern. People who want to become master craftsmen should get more support.

The SPD wants staff in nurseries, kindergartens, after-school care and home-based childcare to have more time for the children. To achieve this, a staffing reserve is to keep growing and a state institute for early childhood education is to be founded.

The SPD wants better daycare. Teachers should have more time for the children. For this, there should be more staff. A new institute will look after quality. Children should learn to speak better in daycare.

The SPD wants to expand all-day schools in which lessons, support and free time are spread across the whole day. Together with more Gemeinschaftsschulen (comprehensive schools) and extra resources based on a social index, this is meant to make educational success depend less on background.

The SPD wants more all-day schools. There, learning and breaks alternate through the whole day. There should also be more comprehensive schools. Schools with many poor children get more money. This should give all children the same chances.

The SPD wants education to be free of charge from daycare through a master's degree or master craftsman qualification. Parental fees for daycare and fees for long-term students are to be dropped, and learning materials are to stay free.

The SPD wants education to cost nothing. Parents should no longer pay for daycare. People who study for a long time should not pay fees either. School books and other learning materials stay free.

The SPD wants to create 450 new permanent positions at universities and raise the share of permanent employment to more than 45 percent. Academic career paths are to become more predictable, and student employees are to get a collective agreement.

Many university staff only have short-term contracts. The SPD wants to create 450 new permanent jobs. More than 45 out of 100 jobs should have no end date. Student assistants should also get a union wage agreement.

The SPD wants to scrap fees for long-term students and for students from countries outside the EU. In its view, tuition-free study and modern student aid safeguard equal opportunity.

People who study for a very long time must pay fees in Saxony. Students from countries outside the EU may also have to pay fees. The SPD wants to abolish both fees. Studying should be free for everyone.

The SPD wants to guarantee universities stable base funding through a six-year agreement, growing by 3.5 percent each year. This is to be complemented by an investment strategy for buildings, grounds and large research equipment.

Universities should be able to plan with certainty. The SPD wants to promise them fixed money for six years. This money should grow by 3.5 percent every year. There should also be a plan for buildings and large research equipment.

The SPD wants to give the Studierendenwerke (student services organizations) higher grants under a six-year agreement so that semester fees stay stable. It also plans further investment in student dormitories.

Student services run cafeterias, dormitories and counseling. The SPD wants to give them more money. The promise should last six years. That way student fees should not go up. There should also be more and better dormitories.

The SPD wants rural schools to be treated more as a tool of regional development and to keep school sites open even with low student numbers. The Volkshochschulen (adult education centers) are to be strengthened as providers of adult education and given more tasks.

The SPD wants to keep schools in small towns. A local school is important for the community, the SPD says. Adult education centers should also become stronger. They should get more tasks.

The SPD wants to keep spending heavily on school construction and on digital equipment for schools. It also wants to reorganize how responsibilities for schools are divided between the state and municipalities.

The SPD wants to keep spending a lot on school buildings. Schools should also get more computers and technology. Experts should look after the devices. The state and towns should split their school tasks in a new way.

The SPD wants children who grew up multilingual to be able to count their heritage language in place of a second foreign language. German Sign Language is also to be recognized as a foreign language.

Some children grow up with two languages. The SPD wants their family language to count as a second foreign language at school. German Sign Language should count as a foreign language too. The plan for teaching German as a second language should get better.

The SPD wants to make education steadily more inclusive and provide more staff and material resources for it. Every school should be able to admit children from its neighborhood and support them according to their needs.

All children should be able to take part at school. This includes children with disabilities or special needs. The SPD wants to give more staff and materials for this. Every school should be able to take in children from the neighborhood.

The SPD wants to pass a teacher education act and gear training more toward classroom practice. The 2,400 university places for teacher training are to be kept.

The SPD wants a new law on how teachers are trained. Training should include more practice. There should still be 2,400 university places for future teachers. Further training for teachers should also get more money.

The SPD wants to plan enough teaching positions to cover 104 percent of lessons. In addition, more assistants and support staff are meant to ease the load on teachers.

The SPD wants to plan more teaching jobs than lessons need. That creates a reserve. More other experts should work in schools too. For example, social workers and assistants. This should take pressure off teachers.

The SPD wants to expand civic education in schools and give better support to student and parent councils. According to the platform, having a say in everyday school life contributes to a good school climate.

Students should learn more about politics at school. They should also have more say. The SPD wants to give student councils and parent councils more support. Trips to memorial sites should keep getting money.

The SPD wants to separate supervision from school development organizationally and found a state institute for school development. According to the platform, schools should be able to work more autonomously.

The SPD wants to reorganize how schools are supervised. One office would oversee schools and recruit teachers. A new institute would advise and guide schools. Schools should be able to decide more for themselves.