What do the parties in Saxony-Anhalt say on education?

The AfD wants to ban the open concept in all daycare centers in the state, a model in which fixed groups are dissolved and children choose their own activities. In its view, children are less well supported and less prepared for elementary school under this model. Reading aloud would also get more weight in preschool education.

Some daycare centers have no fixed groups. The children choose what they do. This is called the open concept. The AfD wants to ban it. It also wants more reading aloud in daycare and in families.

The AfD wants to relieve schools of every task it does not consider educational, including care services, integration and inclusion. Teaching would return to traditional methods, with the teacher as an authority. The party sees this as the way out of what it describes as decades of falling educational standards.

The AfD wants schools to only teach knowledge. Children should above all learn to read, write and do math. Integration and inclusion would no longer be a job for schools. Inclusion means children with and without disabilities learn together. Teachers should have more authority again.

The AfD wants a school system divided by performance and rejects steps toward a single comprehensive school. The Gymnasium (academic-track high school) would again be the school that leads to university, attended by no more than a quarter of each age group. In the party's view, higher demands there would raise standards across all school types.

The AfD wants different types of schools for different levels of ability. At most 25 percent of children should go to the Gymnasium. That is the school that leads to university. The final exam should become harder. The party will look at bringing back two other school types.

The AfD wants to make hands-on trades education a fixed part of everyday school life. Students would discover their practical talents early, and the skilled trades would gain more young recruits.

The AfD wants more skilled-trades learning in school. Students should build and repair things themselves. This way they can find their talents early. The party says the state needs more tradespeople.

The AfD wants the elementary school's recommendation after fourth grade to again be binding in deciding which type of school a child attends. It argues that teachers can usually judge a child's performance better than parents.

After fourth grade, the school recommends a type of school. Today parents can still decide themselves. The AfD wants the recommendation to count again. Tests for all children would help with this. Good students could switch schools later.

The AfD wants to immediately end joint classes for children with and without disabilities and expand special-needs schools (Förderschulen) instead. The platform argues that inclusion has failed because disabled children get too little attention there and lessons are slowed down.

Today, children with and without disabilities often learn together. This is called inclusion. The AfD wants to end inclusion. Children with disabilities should go to special schools. There should be more of these schools.

The AfD wants to tighten grading standards at all types of schools so that good grades are awarded less often. In addition, statewide student competitions with prizes and public honors are meant to strengthen a culture of achievement.

The AfD says there are too many good grades. It wants stricter rules for grades. Students should only pass a test with half of the points. There should also be contests with prizes for students.

The AfD wants to revise history curricula and put more emphasis on the 19th century and the founding of the German nation-state in 1871. In addition, hands-on local studies (Heimatkunde) are meant to teach children how food is produced.

The AfD wants to change history lessons. Students should learn more about the 19th century. The German Empire of 1871 is important to the AfD. There should also be more lessons about the home region. Children should learn where their food comes from.

The AfD wants to bar teachers from voicing their own political opinions in class and to end state funding for the program "Schule gegen Rassismus – Schule mit Courage" (School Against Racism – School With Courage). The platform argues that students are currently being influenced in a politically one-sided way.

Teachers should no longer share their political opinions in class. They should only lead the discussion. The state should also stop paying for a program against racism in schools. The AfD says this program is politically one-sided.

The AfD wants to write education in love of homeland and the German people into the state constitution and the school law. Public schools would fly the national flag every school day, and the national anthem would be sung together at school ceremonies.

The AfD wants to change the state constitution. It should say that schools teach children to love their homeland and the German people. The German flag should fly at school every school day. At school events, everyone should sing the national anthem.

The AfD wants to keep digital media out of elementary schools and use them only selectively at secondary schools; smartphones would be banned through grade 10. Instead, computer science would become a required subject from grade 8 so that students understand how the devices work.

Elementary schools should not use digital media in class. Later, schools should use them only sometimes. Phones should be banned up to grade 10. In return, all students should learn computer science from grade 8.

The AfD wants to secure and, where possible, expand Russian language teaching in Saxony-Anhalt and restart the student exchanges with Russia that have been suspended since 2022. It cites an interest in good relations with Russia and rejects the current policy toward the country.

The AfD wants to keep Russian classes in schools. There should be more of them if possible. Students should be able to go on exchanges to Russia again. The AfD wants good relations with Russia.

The AfD wants at least four hours of physical education per week in every grade and school type, with swimming as a fixed part of PE. It cites the benefits of exercise for children and a rising number of fatal drowning accidents.

All students should have at least four hours of sports each week. Swimming should always be part of sports class. Every child should learn to swim. The AfD says more and more people die in swimming accidents.

The AfD wants the Bundesjugendspiele (national school sports day) in elementary schools to be held as a graded competition again. The platform argues that this is how children come to enjoy achievement.

The Bundesjugendspiele are a sports day at schools. Since 2023, elementary schools no longer hold it as a contest. The AfD wants the contest back. It says children then enjoy doing well.

The AfD wants to address the teacher shortage by bringing back retired teachers, recruiting teachers nationwide and making the job more attractive through less bureaucracy. In addition, principals would be allowed to form larger classes when many lessons are canceled, and a new college of education would train elementary and lower secondary teachers.

Saxony-Anhalt does not have enough teachers. The AfD wants to ask retired teachers to work again. It wants to bring teachers from all over Germany. Teachers should have less paperwork. If many lessons are canceled, classes may get bigger.

The AfD wants to lower minimum enrollment numbers so that small elementary schools can stay open. The platform argues that otherwise up to half of the elementary schools in some districts would be at risk and rural areas would decline further.

The AfD wants to keep small elementary schools. A school should be safe with just 40 children. Today it needs 60 children. This way villages can keep their schools.

The AfD wants to replace compulsory school attendance with a duty to be educated, so that parents can also teach their children at home. It justifies this with the primacy of parents in matters of upbringing and its criticism that schools educate children politically.

Today all children must go to school. The AfD wants to change that. Parents should be allowed to teach their children at home. These children must then take a test twice a year. A child who learns too little must go back to school.

The AfD wants to take decisions on teaching matters away from schools' participatory bodies and hand them to the ministry. Teaching materials would be set uniformly statewide and lent to students free of charge.

Schools have a body called the Gesamtkonferenz. Teachers, parents and students have a say there. The AfD wants only the ministry to decide on teaching and books. All schools in the state should use the same books. Children should borrow the books for free.

The AfD wants children of refugees and asylum seekers to be taught permanently in separate classes. There they would learn content from the schools of their home countries, because the platform regards their stay as only temporary.

Children of refugees should go to school. But the AfD wants separate classes for them. There they should learn what children learn in their home country. The AfD says these children stay in Germany only for a while.

The AfD rejects faith-based Islamic religious instruction in Saxony-Anhalt's schools. It cites the small share of Muslims, the organizational effort and the state's Christian heritage.

The AfD does not want Islam classes in schools. It says only few Muslims live in the state. And the state has a Christian tradition. Muslim students can learn about their religion at mosque associations.

The AfD wants to deploy private security guards at schools where needed and punish violent students as severely as the law allows. The platform justifies this with what it calls an unbearable level of violence at schools, especially in Halle.

The AfD says there is too much violence at schools. It wants guards in the schoolyard where needed. Students who are violent should be punished hard. They should be expelled faster. Some should go to a special school.

The AfD wants to replace bachelor's and master's degrees with the former German programs and degrees such as the Diplom and Magister. Saxony-Anhalt would switch first, followed by a Bundesrat initiative to take all of Germany out of the Bologna system. The platform argues that German universities are only attractive internationally if they have a distinctive system of their own.

The AfD wants to get rid of bachelor's and master's degrees. The old German degrees, Diplom and Magister, would come back. Saxony-Anhalt would change first. Later all of Germany would follow.

The AfD wants to set up a state funding scheme alongside BAföG (federal student aid) that awards scholarships for degree studies and doctorates. They would be granted purely on academic performance, regardless of parental income. In the platform's view, BAföG hands out money without regard to academic performance and misuses tax money.

The AfD wants a new scholarship paid by the state. A scholarship is money for studying. Only performance would count. Parents' income would not matter.

The AfD wants to replace the numerus clausus (admission based on school-leaving grades) with entrance exams. When there are too many applicants, universities would test who is suited to the subject in question. The platform says the Abitur grade is not a suitable measure of aptitude for a particular field of study.

Today the Abitur grade often decides who gets a place at university. The Abitur is the German school-leaving exam. The AfD wants to change that. Universities would hold entrance exams. The best in the exam get the place.

The AfD wants to pay university researchers better while setting higher academic requirements. Fixed-term contracts would become less common. The platform argues that low pay drives the best people away from universities.

The AfD wants to pay researchers more money. In return they would have to meet higher standards. There would be fewer temporary contracts. This way the best would stay at the university.

The AfD wants a university reform that restricts the say of the various university groups and above all reduces the influence of student councils. In its view, professors should carry the most weight because knowledge and education cannot be negotiated democratically.

Many groups have a say at universities today. The AfD wants to change that. Professors would decide the most. Student councils would have less influence.

The AfD wants a state government under its leadership to examine how postcolonial approaches at universities can be pushed back without violating academic freedom. In the program's view, postcolonialism is not scholarship but a political project directed against European identity.

The AfD rejects postcolonialism. That is a school of thought at universities. It studies how the colonial era shaped culture and thinking. The AfD wants to check how to push it back. Academic freedom should stay protected.

The AfD wants to found a state institute for critical research on Islam outside the universities, intended to set the standard nationwide. In the party's view, today's Islamic studies are uncritical and supply politicians with favorable expert opinions.

The AfD wants to found a new state research institute. It should study Islam critically. It should not belong to a university. The AfD thinks today's research on Islam is not critical enough. The institute should advise politicians.

The AfD wants to fund universities so that research no longer depends on externally acquired grants. It argues that funding bodies attach political conditions to their money and that dissenting research goes unfunded.

Researchers today often have to win money from foundations and other funders. This is called third-party funding. The AfD wants to change that. Universities should get enough fixed money from the state. The AfD thinks this makes research freer.

The AfD wants to preserve the distinction between practice-oriented Fachhochschulen (universities of applied sciences) and research-oriented universities. Fachhochschulen may award doctorates, but those earned there independently would be marked with the suffix F.H.

Germany has Fachhochschulen and universities. Fachhochschulen are schools of applied sciences and are closer to practice. Universities do more theory and basic research. The AfD wants to keep this difference. A doctorate from a Fachhochschule should carry the letters F.H.

The AfD wants to introduce a voluntary "trades year" for school leavers. It is meant to raise the profile of the skilled trades as a career and, in the party's view, to counter an excessive preference for university study.

The AfD wants a voluntary year in the skilled trades. Young people can do it after school. They get to know four different trades. The AfD says too many young people go to university. It says too few learn a trade.

The BSW wants no Bundeswehr recruiting at schools and no arms research at the state's universities. Civil clauses are to be defended and peace education expanded. According to the platform, science should serve civilian progress, the common good and peace.

The army should not advertise at schools. Universities should not do research for the military. Schools should teach about peace. Young people should not join the army out of hardship.

The BSW wants to give vocational schools more staff, technology and money and keep schools close to where trainees live. Training content should be updated regularly to reflect new technology, and vocational education should be put permanently on an equal footing with academic education.

The BSW wants to equip vocational schools better. They should get more staff, technology and money. There should be vocational schools close to home. Every training course should teach how to handle computers and data.

The BSW wants to make further training and retraining easier to access and to fund it with little red tape. Master craftsman training is to receive targeted support; at the same time, a review should determine whether the master's certificate requirement can be dropped in some sectors.

The BSW wants to make further training simpler. It should not depend on income. People who want to become a master craftsman should get support. The BSW also wants to check something. Do people in some trades really need a master's certificate to start a business?

The BSW wants all school students to receive the teaching and learning materials they need free of charge. According to the program, parents currently share the cost of textbooks and workbooks through fees and their own purchases. Access should not depend on family income.

Parents today help pay for textbooks and workbooks. The BSW wants to change that. All students should get their learning materials for free. It should not matter how much money the family has.

The BSW wants to make teaching more attractive to counter the teacher shortage. Required teaching hours are to drop, cuts to workload reductions are to be reversed, and all salaried teachers are to get permanent contracts. Teachers' working time is also to be recorded.

Saxony-Anhalt is short of many teachers. The BSW wants to make the job more attractive. Teachers should have to teach one to two hours less. Salaried teachers should get permanent contracts. Working time should be recorded exactly. School offices should take more work off teachers.

The BSW wants a binding smartphone ban in everyday school life and wants to keep digital devices out of elementary schools. Fixed rules for artificial intelligence in secondary schools are meant to keep students' own work assessable.

The BSW wants to ban phones at school. Elementary schools should not use digital devices. There should be clear rules for artificial intelligence. Students should keep thinking for themselves.

The BSW wants children to learn together for longer: at first through grade 6, later through grade 8. In the party's view, sorting children after grade 4 disadvantages those from poorer households, and the tiered school system is outdated.

Children should learn together in one school for longer. First until grade 6, later until grade 8. Today children are split up after grade 4. The BSW says this is unfair to poorer children.

The BSW wants to avoid school closures, especially in rural areas, and to modernize school buildings. Children should be allowed to attend the nearest school even if it lies in a different county.

The BSW wants to keep rural schools open. Children should have short trips to school. They should be allowed to go to a school in the next county. Old school buildings should be repaired.

The BSW wants inclusion implemented across the state, backed by specialist staff and funding. Before children start school, their language level is to be assessed on a mandatory basis so that support needs are spotted early.

Children with and without disabilities should be able to learn together everywhere. There should be enough staff and money for this. Before school starts, every child's language should be checked. That way children get help early.

The BSW wants at least one permanent school social work position at every school. A statewide staffing ratio for school social work and school psychology is to be aligned with the national average.

Every school should have at least one school social worker. The job should be permanent. There should also be more school psychologists. The state should set fixed staffing rules.

The BSW wants teams drawn from different professions to be the norm in schools. Instead of the planned school act, the party calls for an education act that makes staffing and funding binding and relieves schools.

Schools should not only have teachers. Other professionals should help too. The BSW rejects the planned school law. It wants a law that secures more staff and money for schools.

The BSW wants to greatly expand all-day programs at schools and establish them as a state responsibility. An all-day schooling regulation, a dedicated funding program and a quality drive through 2030 are meant to achieve this.

More schools should offer all-day programs. The state should set its own rules and give money. The care should be good, not just supervision. Rural areas especially lack such programs.

The BSW wants all children in daycare centers and schools to get healthy meals free of charge. In the party's view, good nutrition is a precondition for concentration, learning and equal educational opportunity.

Children should get healthy food at daycare and school. The food should cost nothing. Children should also learn about healthy eating. For example in a school garden.

The BSW wants to give universities adequate lump-sum core funding so that research does not depend on third-party grants. The party also backs universities' right to use civil clauses to rule out military use of their research.

Universities should get enough fixed money from the state. They should not depend on outside money. Universities may refuse research for the military. The BSW supports this right.

The BSW wants far more permanent positions at universities and collective agreements for all staff. In the party's view, insecure employment endangers the independence of science and makes life planning harder.

Many researchers only have temporary contracts. The BSW wants more permanent jobs. All staff should be paid under a union contract. Students who work at the university should get one too.

The BSW wants a critical review of the bachelor's-master's system and a serious look at bringing back the Diplom degree. Anyone who completes a bachelor's degree in the state should be assured a place in a master's program.

The BSW wants to review the bachelor's and master's system. The old Diplom degree might come back. Anyone who finishes a bachelor's in the state should get a master's place. Fewer students should drop out.

The BSW wants to keep university study free of tuition and to substantially expand and reform BAföG (federal student aid). Student services organizations and the state's preparatory college are to get more money.

Studying should stay free. Students should get more BAföG. BAföG is state money for students. Student services should get more money for housing, food and advice.

The BSW wants teacher training to be geared more toward classroom practice and wants more study places. Everyone who completes a teaching degree in the state should receive a job offer at a school.

Future teachers should get more practice during their studies. There should be more study places. Anyone who finishes the degree in the state should be offered a job. The BSW wants to win more teachers this way.

The BSW wants more university places in human medicine and dentistry in Halle and Magdeburg because, in its view, the state trains too few doctors for its own needs. Admission should depend less on high school grades, and state scholarships should tie graduates to underserved regions.

The BSW wants more places to study medicine and dentistry. The party says the state trains too few doctors. School grades should matter less for admission. The state should give students money. In return, they later work in areas with few doctors.

The BSW wants universities funded more through stable core budgets rather than third-party and project money. The state should fully cover wage increases from collective agreements. Fixed-term posts in academia, including at non-university institutes, should largely be replaced with permanent ones.

Universities should get more steady money from the state. They should depend less on project money. If wages go up, the state should pay the extra cost. Researchers should get permanent contracts more often. This should also apply at other research institutes.

The BSW wants academics to be able to hold positions outside the majority view without suffering disadvantages. Universities should have an open culture of debate, including on contested views about topics such as gender, biology or politics.

Researchers should be free in their research and teaching. They should be allowed to voice unusual opinions. Nobody should be punished for that. This also applies to disputed topics like gender or politics. Universities should have clear rules and ways to complain.

The BSW wants to end the professors' majority on university governing bodies. Students and academic and non-academic staff should have an equal say. Universities should also offer more practice-oriented training.

Professors hold the majority on university boards today. The BSW wants to change that. All groups should have an equal say. These are students, researchers and other staff. Studies should also be closer to working life.

The BSW wants to respond to migration-related challenges with early language support, language tests and a compulsory preschool year. School districts should become more flexible so that children with a migration background are not concentrated in individual schools.

Children should get German language support already in kindergarten. There should be early language tests. One year of preschool should be required. Children from immigrant families should be spread more evenly across schools. That should give all children good chances.

The BSW wants to create a new education and qualification system for adults who immigrated without basic education, a school diploma or a trade. It is meant to make school diplomas and low-threshold vocational training possible. Germans without qualifications and pupils from special-needs schools are also to have access.

Some immigrants never went to school and never learned a trade. The BSW wants new education programs for them. There they can get a school diploma and learn a job. Germans without a diploma should be able to join too.

The CDU wants to raise the standing of vocational training and the skilled trades and put them on an equal footing with academic education. Training, master craftsman qualifications and career changes are to be supported to secure skilled workers for companies.

The CDU wants to strengthen job training. An apprenticeship should count as much as a college degree. The state supports the master craftsman title. Students should get to know companies early. The state also recruits skilled workers from abroad.

The CDU wants to keep the tiered school system and merge Sekundarschulen and Gemeinschaftsschulen (comprehensive-style community schools) into a new Oberschule. This school type is meant to stand as a practice-oriented equal alongside the Gymnasium.

The CDU wants to keep different types of schools. Two school types will become one new type called Oberschule. The Oberschule mainly prepares students for job training. The Gymnasium prepares students for university. Both school types should count the same.

The CDU wants to keep school locations in rural areas and realign school development planning to that end. Schools are also to get more room to make their own decisions, and afternoon programs are to be expanded.

The CDU wants to keep schools in the countryside. Schools should be able to team up to do this. Schools should decide more things themselves. There should be more afternoon activities for children.

The CDU wants a mandatory language assessment for all children before they start school, with targeted support in the preschool year. Children should have a command of German when they enter first grade. Primary schools are to offer more instruction in German and math.

The CDU wants a language test before school starts. All children must take the test. Children with weak German get help in the year before school. Primary schools should teach more German and math.

The CDU wants to bring all areas of education, from daycare to research, together in a single ministry. This is meant to create clear responsibility and better coordination across the education system.

The CDU wants one ministry for all education. It would handle daycare, school, job training, university and research. This should make clear who is responsible. The different areas should work together better.

The CDU wants to revise the curricula of all school types and cut content it considers of little practical or future relevance. Topics such as finance, economics, career orientation and digitalization are to get more room instead.

The CDU wants to change what schools teach. Some old content should be dropped. Students should learn more about money, the economy, jobs and technology. Primary schools should offer more crafts and school gardening.

The CDU wants a fixed practical day each week in grades 7 to 9 at Oberschulen and comprehensive schools as well as suitable special-needs schools. Four days of classroom teaching would be paired with one day in companies or on digital learning tasks.

The CDU wants a new model for grades 7 to 9. Students have four days of lessons at school. On the fifth day they learn in a company. Or they work on tasks on a computer. This applies to Oberschulen and comprehensive schools.

The CDU wants to bring artificial intelligence into classrooms as a learning tool and strengthen the media literacy of students and teachers. The platform regards responsible use of digital technology as a main task of schools.

The CDU wants to use artificial intelligence in class. Artificial intelligence is called AI for short. Students should learn to use digital media well and critically. Teachers should learn this in their training. Each school decides its own rules for phones.

The CDU wants to give schools in socially difficult areas more staff, more support programs and better equipment. School social work is to be kept where possible, and school psychology services are to be secured.

The CDU wants to help schools in difficult neighborhoods more. These schools should get more staff and better equipment. School social work should stay where possible. Counties and cities decide where social workers work. Students should also get psychological help.

The CDU wants to keep Förderschulen (special-needs schools) and let parents choose between inclusive schooling and a special-needs school. Children with an identified need for support should be able to attend a Förderschule for learning difficulties from first grade.

The CDU wants to keep special-needs schools. Parents should be able to choose the right school for their child. Children who need extra support can go there from first grade. They should be able to earn a basic school diploma there in grade 10.

The CDU wants to make career orientation in schools more binding and keep the structure of vocational schools. Vocational and academic education are to be treated as equal, for example through a provision in the state constitution.

The CDU wants students to get to know jobs early. Internships should become mandatory. Vocational schools should stay and be easy to reach. Job training and university should count the same. This should be written in the state constitution.

The CDU commits to the principle of achievement in schools and wants to keep grades, grade promotion and final exams. At the same time, schools are to be evaluated more intensively, both internally and externally.

The CDU wants to keep grades in schools. Repeating a year and final exams should also stay. The same standards should apply to all schools. The work of schools should be checked regularly.

The CDU wants to reform teacher training: the degree for Sekundarschule teachers is to become a dual work-study program in the long run, and the Referendariat (practical training phase) is to include more hands-on work. Trainee teachers who commit to rural areas are to get a bonus.

The CDU wants to change how teachers are trained. Students should work in schools early on. This is called a dual program. People who later teach in the countryside should get more money during training. Universities should be judged by how many teachers graduate.

The CDU wants to present a childcare plan that responds to falling birth rates, secures funding and improves the staff-to-child ratio. Daycare close to home, family daycare and a variety of providers are to be preserved. Childcare workers are to have fewer documentation duties.

There are fewer children in Saxony-Anhalt. The CDU wants to make a plan for daycare centers. There should be more staff per child. Daycare centers close to home should stay. Childcare workers should have less paperwork.

The CDU wants to promote digital education in all areas of education and support schools with digital tools. A central learning platform would be open to children, students and adults.

The CDU wants everyone to handle digital technology better. There will be one central learning platform online. Children, students and adults can use it. Older people will get offers too. They learn about media, data protection and online safety.

The CDU wants to keep denominational religious education as a compulsory school subject with two lessons a week. Religious and worldview education is also to be anchored in nurseries, kindergartens and after-school care.

The CDU wants to keep religion classes at school. They should take two lessons a week. Children in nurseries, kindergartens and after-school care should also learn about religion.

The CDU wants to focus funding on research fields that promise top-level results or matter especially for Saxony-Anhalt. Universities and research institutes are to work more closely with companies so that ideas turn into products, start-ups, and jobs faster.

The CDU wants to fund research in a targeted way. Money should go mainly to fields that matter for Saxony-Anhalt. Universities and companies should work together more. That way, ideas should become products and jobs faster.

The CDU wants to charge tuition fees to foreign students from countries outside the EU. The revenue is meant to help fund the state's universities.

The CDU wants to bring in fees for studying. Students from countries outside the EU would pay them. The money should help the universities in the state.

The CDU wants to give selected degree programs an international focus in order to attract skilled workers to the state. International students are to form ties to the region during their studies and then move easily into the regional job market.

The CDU wants to attract more students from abroad. They should work in Saxony-Anhalt after they graduate. The universities should help them settle in. Moving between job training and university should also get easier.

The CDU wants to simplify the bureaucracy around research funding and speed up decisions. Spin-offs from universities and research institutes are to be possible within 24 hours using standard contracts.

The CDU wants less red tape in research. Decisions on funding should come faster. Researchers should be able to start a company out of a university in 24 hours. Standard contracts should make that possible.

The Greens want to strengthen democracy education starting in daycare. Civics is to be compulsory from fifth grade until graduation, and school conferences are to be composed on a one-third parity basis.

The Greens want children to learn about democracy early. Civics should be required from grade 5 until the end of school. Students should have more say at school. All students should be able to join exchange programs.

The Greens want digital and media skills to become a permanent part of education for children and adults alike. People should understand how algorithms and AI shape information.

The Greens want everyone to learn how to use digital media. This applies to schools and to courses for adults. People should understand how news on the internet is made. This should also help them find jobs.

The Greens want to keep every Kita (daycare center) in the state open, especially in rural areas. A program called "HeimatKita" would guarantee childcare in the same village or no more than 15 minutes away. The fee reduction for families with several children would be made permanent.

The Greens want to keep all daycare centers in the state. This matters most in villages. Every family should have daycare nearby or within 15 minutes. Families with several children should keep paying less.

The Greens want to improve staffing in daycare centers for the long term by raising the minimum staff-to-child ratio. In addition, all daycare centers would have to assess children's language skills so that support starts early.

The Greens want more staff in daycare centers. Childcare workers should earn more. All daycare centers should check how well children speak. That way children get help with language early.

The Greens want daycare centers to be places where children experience participation, and to expand them into family centers. Training is meant to promote gender-neutral upbringing and reduce role stereotypes.

Children should learn to have a say already in daycare. Daycare centers should also be meeting places for families. Staff should get training. There they learn not to push girls and boys into fixed roles.

The Greens want to preserve small elementary schools in rural areas and create a special "village elementary school" status for them. Falling student numbers would be used for smaller classes, and the party rejects laying off teaching staff.

The Greens want to keep small elementary schools in villages. Children should have short trips to school. When there are fewer children, classes should get smaller. Teachers should not lose their jobs.

The Greens want to turn all general-education schools into schools with all-day programs. Learning materials, a healthy lunch and menstrual products would be free of charge at school.

All schools should have afternoon programs. Clubs and music schools should take part. School books and lunch should be free. Pads and tampons should also be free at school.

The Greens want children with and without disabilities to learn together as a rule and to sharply reduce the number of special-needs schools. As a first step, special schools focused on learning difficulties would be abolished entirely. In the platform's view, separation leads to stigma and poorer prospects.

Children with and without disabilities should learn together. There should be far fewer special schools. First, the special schools for learning difficulties should go. Their teachers should then help at regular schools.

The Greens want to extend joint elementary school to six years and, in the long run, allow joint learning from grade 1 through 10. The Sekundarschule (a non-academic secondary school type) would be abolished, leaving mainly comprehensive Gemeinschaftsschulen alongside Gymnasien. The Abitur would again be taken after 13 years.

Children should attend elementary school together until grade 6. Later they should be able to learn together until grade 10. One type of secondary school should be ended. There should be more comprehensive schools instead. The final school exam should again come after 13 years.

The Greens want far fewer grades and to replace them with dialogue-based feedback. In elective and talent-based subjects, grades would be dropped entirely. Repeating a school year would mostly become a voluntary decision by students and parents.

There should be far fewer grades at school. Teachers should talk with children about their learning instead. Some subjects should have no grades at all. Repeating a year should mostly be voluntary.

The Greens want to ease teachers' workload with a mandatory working-time account and teams drawn from several professions. Career changers would get more support, and there would be pay bonuses for teaching in structurally weak regions or shortage subjects.

Teachers should get more help. Other professionals should take tasks off their hands. People from other jobs should become teachers more easily. Those who teach in difficult places should get more money.

The Greens want to replace teacher training split by school type with a single degree for all secondary schools. They also plan a new primary-level teaching degree, a one-subject teaching degree and more study places in Halle and Magdeburg.

Teacher training should change. Future teachers should be able to work at all secondary schools. In art, music and sports, one subject should be enough. The universities in Halle and Magdeburg should train more teachers.

The Greens want to put significantly more money into school buildings and equipment through a school construction program. A school social index would steer extra funds to schools facing particular difficulties.

The Greens want to spend much more money on school buildings. Old schools should be renovated. School toilets should be fixed first. Schools with big problems should get more money.

The Greens want at least one permanently employed school social worker at every school and a pool of school psychologists in counties and independent cities. Funding would be carried permanently by the state and municipalities together.

Every school should have at least one permanent social worker. Every county should have school psychologists. The state and local governments should pay for this together. Poor municipalities should get help with it.

The Greens want to set up a state action program against bullying. The platform argues that perpetrator and victim roles are often carried over from school into working life, so early intervention is needed.

The Greens want a program against bullying. Bullying means someone is treated badly again and again. Schools should act against it early. Once a year there should be a day against bullying.

The Greens want to supply all schools with fast internet, Wi-Fi, digital boards and enough devices. IT and digital assistants at every school would provide technical help. According to the platform, digitalization should not be an end in itself but follow teaching concepts.

All schools should get fast internet and Wi-Fi. There should be enough devices for children and teachers. Experts at every school should help with the technology. Teachers should learn better how to work with digital media.

The Greens want to better protect children in all schools from discrimination, bullying, racism and anti-queer hostility. They plan to strengthen counseling and prevention, set up an independent statewide ombuds office, and require regular teacher training.

The Greens want to protect children at school. This is about bullying, racism and hate against queer people. There should be an independent office for complaints. People can report incidents there without giving their name. Teachers should take regular courses on this.

The Greens want students to have more say at every level of school life. Democracy education would become a guiding principle across all subjects, new bodies would be created, and the school conference would be split equally among three groups.

Students should have more say at school. The Greens want new groups for this, such as class councils. In the school conference, students, parents and teachers should have equal weight. This way young people experience democracy early.

The Greens want no vocational training program to charge school fees, especially school-based training and health professions. They also call for training pay tied to collective agreements and a one-time start-up grant for trainees whose parents cannot support them financially.

Some training programs cost school fees today. The Greens want to end that. This is most important for health jobs. Trainees should get pay based on union agreements. Trainees who get no money from their parents should get a one-time payment at the start.

The Greens want to strengthen adult education centers and independent providers and make continuing education accessible in rural areas too. A new educational leave law would broaden Bildungsurlaub (paid educational leave), and programs for basic skills, second-chance schooling and German courses would grow.

Adults should be able to learn close to home. The Greens want to strengthen adult education centers. There should be more courses for reading and writing. Educational leave should get easier. That is time off work for learning. Immigrants should get more German courses.

The Greens want to keep raising state funding for universities so that at least inflation and higher energy and construction costs are covered. They also pledge to defend academic freedom and university autonomy and to support research in future-oriented fields.

Universities should get more money from the state. This should help them pay higher prices for energy and building. The Greens want to protect the freedom of science. They want to support research, for example on green hydrogen.

The Greens want to give students more of a say, including through a student vice-rector and equal representation of four groups on governing bodies. Universities would also be required to ensure physical and digital accessibility and to offer more part-time and distance study.

Students should have more say at universities. The Greens want a new student post in university leadership. Universities should be open to everyone. This applies to buildings and to digital services. There should be more part-time and distance study.

The Greens want more permanent positions at universities, especially for mid-level academic staff, and a collective agreement for student employees. The share of women is to rise markedly, with a target of at least 40 percent women professors.

Many people at universities only have short contracts. The Greens want more permanent jobs. Students who work at a university should get a union contract. At least 40 percent of professors should be women. There should be binding targets for this.

The Left wants to provide considerably more money for civic education. Every young person should be able to visit a memorial site of the Nazi dictatorship at least once during their school years. The program justifies this in part by the growing importance of dealing with right-wing extremism and antisemitism.

The Left wants to spend more money on civic education. There, people learn how democracy works. Every young person should be able to visit a memorial site once. A memorial site reminds people of the crimes of the Nazi era. There should be more programs in rural areas and online.

The Left wants teams made up of different professions in all daycare centers and schools. They are meant to support children and families early on and make joint teaching of children with and without special needs possible.

The Left wants teams from many professions in daycare centers and schools. These include teachers, childcare workers, social workers and psychologists. The teams should support children and families early. This way all children can learn together.

The Left wants to anchor and expand social work in daycare centers and schools permanently by law. Instead of time-limited projects paid from EU funds, a state program is to carry the financing.

The Left wants social work in daycare centers and schools to be permanent. So far there are only projects for a limited time. In the future the state should pay for it for good. There should be one social work job for every 150 students.

The Left wants to give all children and young people fast internet and digital devices in daycare and school. They are to learn to use media, algorithms and artificial intelligence critically and independently.

The Left wants fast internet in daycare centers and schools. All children should be able to use digital devices there. They should learn how media and computer programs work. Artificial intelligence should help with learning but not replace thinking for yourself.

The Left wants all children with and without disabilities to be able to learn together in regular schools. Truancy is no longer to be punished with fines or youth detention, and grades for behavior are to be dropped.

The Left wants all children to learn together in regular schools. There should be more trained staff for this. Students who skip school should not get fines or detention. They should get help instead. The Left wants to end grades for behavior.

The Left wants longer joint learning and to make the Gemeinschaftsschule (comprehensive community school) the second pillar next to the Gymnasium. This includes ten years of compulsory full-time schooling and an end to school-track recommendations.

The Left wants children to learn together for longer. Later there should be only community schools and Gymnasium schools. This should happen voluntarily. Everyone should go to school for 10 years. Parents get advice but no longer a recommendation for a school type.

The Left wants to make vocational training more attractive: all training programs are to be free of charge, and necessary technology such as laptops or software is to be provided. Vocational schools are to be modernized through a state program.

The Left wants to improve vocational training. Every training program should be free. Trainees should get laptops and software at no cost. The state should help with travel and housing costs. Trainees should get a few days off before exams.

The Left wants after-school care centers (Horte) to be governed by the school law again while keeping the variety of providers. All-day offerings are to grow as needed at all general secondary schools.

The Left wants after-school care centers back in the school law. These centers look after primary school children after class. The different providers should stay. Secondary schools should also get more all-day offerings.

The Left wants to abolish minimum enrollment numbers for first-year classes at public schools so that locations are not closed because of fluctuating numbers. A state school construction program and higher transfers to municipalities are to make building and renovation possible.

The Left wants to protect schools from closing. There should no longer be a minimum number of students for new classes. School authorities should decide on locations themselves. The state should help with building and renovating schools.

The Left wants to give students more of a say and allow schools to make more of their own decisions. In the program's view, schools should be places where democracy is practiced.

The Left wants students to have more say at school. Schools should be allowed to decide more on their own. This covers money, organization and teaching. Schools should get their own budget.

The Left wants to address the teacher shortage with fixed staffing ratios in the school law, restructured teacher training and more university places. Teachers are to be relieved and career changers better supported.

The Left wants to get more teachers for schools. The school law should say how many staff each school gets. Training should follow the age of students, not the type of school. Magdeburg should get 200 new university places. Teachers should have less paperwork.

The Left wants to strengthen adult education centers, educational associations, and other adult education providers and fund their programs reliably with state money. The platform treats education for older people as a distinct part of lifelong learning.

The Left wants to strengthen education for adults. This includes adult education centers. The state should pay for these programs in the long run. Older people should get help with digital technology.

The Left wants to guarantee universities reliable funding and rule out cuts, even if fewer people enroll. Core funding is to grow so that universities depend less on project money. Both medical faculties are to be kept, and the university hospitals are to remain publicly owned.

The Left does not want to give universities less money. This also applies if fewer people study. Universities should get more fixed funding. The two university hospitals should stay in public hands.

The Left wants studying in Saxony-Anhalt not to depend on parents' income. It plans a social pact for universities with affordable housing and stable cafeteria prices, free learning materials, and cheaper transportation. It rejects tuition fees and wants to push at the federal level for BAföG (student aid) paid regardless of parental income.

The Left wants to make studying cheaper. Housing and cafeteria meals should be affordable. Learning materials should be free. The transit pass should later cost 9 euros and one day nothing. There should be no tuition fees.

The Left wants to make it easier to get through a degree: anyone who completes a bachelor's in the state is to get a guaranteed master's place. Standard study periods are to be extended, and support services are to be available in one place.

The Left wants to make studying easier. After a bachelor's degree, everyone should get a place in a master's program. Students should have more time to finish. Help should be available in one single place.

The Left wants to make careers for early-career researchers more reliable and make tenure track, the fixed route to a permanent professorship, the norm. The state's graduate funding program is to offer more and higher scholarships. Women in academia are to receive targeted support.

The Left wants secure career paths in research. Young researchers should know early whether they can stay. There should be more scholarships for doctoral students. A scholarship is money for the time of training. Women should get special support.

The Left wants to secure basic research, make collaborations transparent, and make universities more digitally independent. Research results are to be freely accessible and reach the regions more directly through real-world labs and practical semesters.

The Left wants to strengthen research in the state. Universities should use their own digital services. Research results should be open to everyone. Universities should work more closely with towns, hospitals, schools, and businesses.

The Left wants to fund teacher training reliably and link it more closely to everyday school life. The quality of practical semesters is to be secured, including in rural areas. Career changers entering teaching are to get targeted support and further qualification.

The Left wants to improve teacher training. The money for it should flow permanently. Students should get more practice in schools. People from other jobs should be able to become teachers more easily.

The Left wants to keep every daycare center, school and after-school care site in the state. It also wants to adjust staffing ratios in daycare and hire more trained educational staff for schools and after-school care.

No daycare center, school or after-school site should close. The Left wants more staff in daycare. Schools and after-school care should also get more trained staff.

The SPD wants every young person to receive a suitable vocational training offer, even without a school diploma. Career guidance through the state program BRAFO would be extended to all secondary schools.

The SPD wants every young person to get an offer for job training. This should also apply to young people without a school diploma. Students should learn about jobs early. This should happen at all secondary schools.

The SPD wants daycare centers and elementary schools to shape children's transition together. The platform sees early support as the basis for language, social development and later success in learning.

Education already starts in daycare. The SPD wants daycare centers and elementary schools to work together firmly. Children should be examined earlier before they start school. They should get more help with language.

The SPD wants a comprehensive program to make sure classes take place reliably. In elementary school, reading, writing and math are to get more time. Long-term education monitoring is meant to show where schools need support.

The SPD wants fewer canceled classes. It plans a large program for this. Elementary schools should have more time for reading and math. The state should check regularly how well children learn.

In the medium term, the SPD wants only two types of secondary school: the Gymnasium (academic track) and the Gemeinschaftsschule (comprehensive school). The aim is for every school-leaving certificate to be attainable everywhere in the state.

The SPD wants to change the school system. After elementary school there should be only two kinds of school. These are the Gymnasium and the comprehensive school. Then all children can earn any diploma anywhere.

The SPD plans a state school construction program to make school buildings accessible and modern. Rural school sites are to be kept even where student numbers decline.

The SPD wants to rebuild and modernize schools. The state should start a building program for this. Schools should become accessible for everyone. Schools in the countryside should stay open.

The SPD wants to keep university-based teacher training with 1,200 study places and make it more practice-oriented. Career changers entering teaching are to get better support and pay. The party also seeks a new working-time model for teachers.

The SPD wants to keep training many teachers. There will still be 1,200 study places. People who switch from another job should get good help and fair pay. Older teachers should have to teach fewer hours.

The SPD wants to secure school social work permanently with state funds and raise the funding substantially. Schools are to work with teams from different professions to support students' learning.

The SPD wants to pay for school social work for good. The money should come from the state. There should also be more money than today. Experts from many jobs should work together at schools.

The SPD wants to back joint learning of children with and without special needs with more staff and counseling. Special-needs schools are to remain where they are needed. Learning materials, including digital devices, are to be free so that education does not depend on parents' income.

Children with and without disabilities should be able to learn together. There should be more teacher hours and help for this. Special schools stay where they are needed. School materials and devices like tablets should cost nothing.

The SPD wants to preserve the network of vocational schools and widen career and study guidance at all school types. Young people without a diploma are to get into training more easily. The platform treats vocational education as equal in value to academic education.

The SPD wants to keep the vocational schools in the state. All schools should inform more about jobs and college. Young people without a diploma should find training more easily. Job training should count as much as a degree.

The SPD rejects tuition fees and does not want international students to bear a one-sided financial burden either. Universities are to gain stability through reliable agreements and adequate core funding. Student services organizations are to be strengthened.

The SPD wants no fees for college. Students from abroad should not pay extra either. Universities should get enough money from the state. Student services should get more help, for example for cheap housing.

The SPD wants to keep the statewide daycare network even as the number of children falls and leave the existing care entitlement untouched. The Kita STABIL program would continue beyond 2028, and staffing ratios would improve step by step. In the long term, daycare should be free of charge.

The SPD wants to keep all daycare centers in the state. Children should still be able to get up to ten hours of care a day. There should be more staff for the children. Later, parents should not pay for daycare anymore. Old daycare buildings should be renovated.