What do the parties in Schleswig-Holstein say on education?

The CDU wants to introduce an exercise lesson together with all-day schooling. Sports clubs and other providers are to take part. All-day programs in elementary school are also to be well developed and of high quality.

The CDU wants an exercise lesson at schools. Children should move and play sports there. The lesson is part of all-day school. That is school with activities in the afternoon. Sports clubs should help.

The CDU wants to significantly expand the practice-integrated training program (PiA) for childcare workers and introduce a training wage. In the medium term, this is to become a dual vocational program. The aim is to meet the growing demand for daycare staff.

The CDU wants to train more childcare workers. They should get paid during training. The training should be offered in every county. Later it should take place at school and at work at the same time. This is called dual training.

The CDU wants to pilot a screening of children at age four and a half to identify special educational needs early. Daycare centers and elementary schools are to cooperate and introduce joint support programs.

The CDU wants to screen children at four and a half years old. This will be tested first. It shows early on whether a child needs help. It is about language and movement. Daycare and elementary school should then help together.

The CDU wants an inclusion drive for daycare centers so that inclusion is practiced in all facilities. Specialists from various fields are to support staff and parents on site.

The CDU wants more inclusion in daycare. Inclusion means children with and without disabilities are together. This should be the case in all daycare centers in the state. Specialists should help staff and parents.

The CDU wants daycare centers (Kitas) to prepare children more deliberately for school. An "Education Plus" program and binding educational standards are meant to achieve this.

The CDU wants daycare to prepare children better for school. There will be a new program for this. All daycare centers will follow fixed rules on learning.

The CDU wants to introduce education for sustainable development and democracy education in every daycare center in the state. It also wants more nature daycare centers and closer cooperation with cultural institutions.

Children should learn about the environment and democracy in daycare. This should happen in every daycare center in the state. The CDU also wants more nature daycare centers. Daycare centers should work more with cultural institutions.

The CDU wants children in daycare and elementary schools to be more physically active. It argues that play and sports have a lasting positive effect on the health of children and teenagers.

Children should move more. This applies to daycare and elementary school. The CDU says exercise is good for health. Elementary schools will have one exercise lesson every week.

The CDU wants to establish a professorship for early childhood education in Schleswig-Holstein. It is to come with a dual bachelor's program and a master's program.

The CDU wants to create a new professorship. It will deal with education for young children. Two new degree programs will go with it.

The CDU wants to add one lesson per week in each of the first two grades of elementary school to strengthen German and math. Small elementary school sites are to keep receiving state support.

Children in grades 1 and 2 will get one more lesson. The lesson is for German and math. Small elementary schools should stay open. The state will help them.

The CDU wants to develop the Gymnasium (academic-track school) and the Gemeinschaftsschule (comprehensive school) as equally valued school types, each with its own profile. At comprehensive schools, learning groups are to be split by ability and final exams made mandatory for all.

The CDU wants to keep both school types. The Gymnasium prepares students for university. The Gemeinschaftsschule prepares students for all diplomas. There, students will learn in ability groups from grade 7.

The CDU wants computer science to be a required subject at every secondary school starting in fifth grade. The aim is to familiarize students early with skills for the future.

All students should learn computer science. The subject will be required from grade 5. The CDU wants to train more teachers for it.

The CDU wants to strengthen foreign-language teaching and try out new models such as bilingual and heritage-language classes. International school options are to be created in the state's large cities.

Students should be able to learn more foreign languages. Children from immigrant families should also be able to learn their family's language. Large cities should have international schools.

The CDU wants to anchor economic education and a startup culture at secondary schools across the state. STEM offerings such as student labs and the MINT-Akademie (STEM academy) are also to be expanded.

Students should learn how the economy works. They should also learn how to start a business. The CDU also wants more offers for math, computer science, science and technology.

The CDU wants to give independently run schools more support with teaching permits and with finding qualified staff. Parent and student councils are also to get better conditions for their work.

The CDU wants to support private schools. They should find teachers more easily. Parent and student representatives should also be able to work better.

The CDU wants to keep teaching coverage above 100 percent permanently in order to reduce canceled lessons. An alliance for teacher education is meant to help recruit more teachers, especially in shortage subjects.

There should be enough teachers so fewer lessons are canceled. The CDU wants to recruit more teachers. Teachers are especially missing in math, computer science and science. An alliance will improve teacher training.

The CDU wants to require teachers to document at least 15 hours of continuing education each year. Digital education is to get a fixed place in both initial training and continuing education.

Teachers will have to take further training every year. It must be at least 15 hours a year. They should mainly learn more about digital teaching.

The CDU wants to expand all-day programs at elementary schools by the 2026/27 school year so that the legal entitlement to all-day care can be met step by step. The state and the federal government are to help school authorities pay for rooms and staff.

The CDU wants more all-day school for young children. All-day school means children are also cared for in the afternoon. There should be enough places by 2026/27. The state and the federal government should pay part of the cost.

The CDU wants to keep supporting school authorities with building and renovating schools beyond 2023. This is to be accompanied by a model room plan and new state school-construction advisers.

The CDU wants to keep giving money for school buildings. This should continue after 2023. There should be advisers for school construction. They will mainly help small school authorities.

The CDU wants to continue and further develop the program that gives extra funding to schools in socially challenging areas. This includes more German-language courses, also for parents, and breakfast at these schools.

Some schools have a harder job than others. They get extra money. The CDU wants to keep this program. There should be more German classes, also for parents. These schools should also offer breakfast.

The CDU wants to permanently offer school-based learning and care programs during vacations. It points out that such programs proved their worth in the post-COVID catch-up program.

The CDU wants learning programs during school vacations. They should be offered permanently. Children can learn there and are looked after. The federal government should keep helping to pay.

The CDU wants to launch a pilot project for free hygiene products at secondary schools. It argues that the cost and insecurity associated with menstruation can keep girls away from class.

The CDU wants to start a trial at schools. Schools would offer free period products. Otherwise some girls miss class. The CDU wants to prevent that.

The CDU wants to pool individual student aides, school assistants and school social work in joint teams with regional budgets and expand them statewide. It argues that school has long been more than a place for teaching knowledge and therefore needs other professions alongside teachers.

Schools do not only have teachers. There are also aides for individual children and social workers. The CDU wants to bring these people together in one team. Each region gets a fixed budget for this. There should be more such teams across the state.

The CDU wants to create more positions for special education teachers and introduce binding statewide standards for inclusion. The benchmark remains a 2016 expert report that puts the need at 493 additional positions.

Inclusion means children with and without disabilities learn together. The CDU wants to hire more special teachers for this. The same fixed rules should apply across the state. The job should become more attractive.

The CDU wants to keep Förderzentren (special needs centers) with their own students so that individual support is available there when needed. In addition, learning groups are to be created for children with special needs in emotional and social development.

Förderzentren are schools for children who need special support. The CDU wants to keep these schools. There should also be new learning groups. They are for children with behavior problems. Later these children should return to their class.

The CDU wants to systematically identify, train and develop leaders in schools and reform how leadership posts are filled. School supervision, especially the local school offices, is to be strengthened.

The CDU wants better training for principals. It wants to find teachers early who can lead well. The way leaders are chosen should be changed. Local school offices should be able to give more support.

The CDU wants to continue and expand career guidance programs on a permanent basis. Jugendberufsagenturen (youth employment agencies) are to be set up in all regions of the state to support the transition from school to work.

Students should learn about jobs early. The CDU wants more programs for this. There should be youth employment agencies everywhere in the state. They help young people start their working life.

The CDU wants to introduce a statewide identifier for students. It is meant to improve education reporting and make changes within a student's educational path less bureaucratic.

Every student should get their own number. The CDU calls this a student ID. It should make changing schools easier. The state also wants better figures on education this way.

The CDU wants to keep the six types of vocational schools and secure dual vocational training with a master plan. Vocational schools are to be equipped to modern standards and able to work digitally.

The CDU wants to strengthen vocational schools. All six types of vocational school should stay. A plan should secure classes in rural areas too. The schools should get good equipment.

The CDU wants to make it easier to move between school-based vocational training, apprenticeships, and university by having qualifications credited across these paths. It also plans to found an open vocational university that links apprenticeships with higher education.

The CDU wants school and job training to count everywhere. What you learn at a vocational school should count in an apprenticeship. A job qualification should also count at university. The CDU also wants a new open vocational university.

The CDU wants to give above-average support to technical and science-oriented tracks at vocational schools. It justifies this with the shortage of skilled workers in STEM occupations.

Technical jobs lack many skilled workers. So the CDU wants to give extra support to technical subjects at vocational schools. STEM means science, technology, engineering, and math. Training for ship officers should also get better.

The CDU wants to launch an app that shows training and career paths and makes open apprenticeship and internship positions visible. It is also meant to help university dropouts move into an apprenticeship faster.

The CDU wants an app that helps people choose a career. The app shows which jobs and training paths exist. It also shows open apprenticeships and internships. It should promote apprenticeships in companies in particular.

The CDU wants fewer young people to leave vocational schools without a qualification. To that end, training-preparation programs and vocational integration classes are to be further developed.

Some young people leave vocational school without a qualification. The CDU wants this to happen less often. Preparation classes should get better. Young people should start an apprenticeship in a company sooner.

The CDU wants to recruit more teachers for vocational schools and keep classroom staffing above 100 percent. To do so, teacher demand is to be forecast for these schools as well, and career-changer routes into teaching are to become more attractive.

Vocational schools lack teachers. The CDU wants to win more people for this job. People from companies should be able to become teachers more easily. There should still be enough lessons.

The CDU wants to draw up a statewide strategy for continuing education and write it into law. Funding, digital offerings, and networking among providers are to be developed further so that continuing education carries more weight in people's educational paths.

The CDU wants a plan for adult learning in the state. Adult learning means grown-ups learn new things for work or daily life. The plan should be written into a law. There should be a website with courses. The course providers should work together more closely.

The CDU wants to push at the federal level for merging BAföG (student aid) and Aufstiegs-BAföG (aid for career advancement training) and for lifting the age limit. Aid should also depend less on parents' income.

BAföG is state money for students and trainees. The CDU wants older people to be able to get BAföG too. BAföG should depend less on how much the parents earn. Two kinds of BAföG should become one.

The CDU wants to expand basic education centers in order to lower the share of adults who cannot read and write well enough. People who catch up on their first general school diploma at a continuing education institution should no longer pay fees for it.

Some adults cannot read and write well. The CDU wants more places where they can learn this. These places are called basic education centers. Adults who catch up on their first school diploma should not have to pay.

The CDU wants to keep increasing university funding year by year in order to reach adequate core financing. The money remains tied to target agreements and the university contract. The platform justifies this with new demands from digitalization, AI, and sustainability.

Universities should get more money every year. The CDU says the money is not yet enough. In return, universities agree on goals with the state. Private universities should also be able to get funding.

The CDU wants to create the conditions at universities for significantly more people to complete a teaching degree, especially in shortage subjects. The reason is the forecast high demand at elementary schools and particularly at Gemeinschaftsschulen (comprehensive-type secondary schools).

The state will need many new teachers. So the CDU wants to train more people to become teachers. Universities get money for this. Digital topics should matter more in the degree.

The CDU wants to provide more money for university buildings and for research buildings in university medicine. It will examine a dedicated property agency for university buildings in order to clear the investment backlog. Renovations are to be used to upgrade the buildings' energy performance.

Many university buildings need to be renewed. The CDU wants to give more money for this. It is looking at a separate agency for these buildings. It would build and maintain them. Later the buildings should run without harming the climate.

The CDU wants to launch a Digital-Pakt Hochschule (digital pact for universities) together with the federal government to improve universities' digital equipment. In addition, the digital skills of teaching staff and students are to be strengthened and more state funds provided.

Universities should get better digital technology. The CDU wants a joint federal and state program for this. It is called Digital-Pakt Hochschule. Teachers and students should get better at using digital tools. Libraries should become more digital too.

The CDU wants to promote top-level research with a state excellence strategy and a dedicated budget. The main focus is on Kiel University (Christian-Albrechts-Universität) becoming a University of Excellence.

The CDU wants to give special support to very good research in the state. There should be a plan and separate money for this. Kiel University should become a University of Excellence. That is a title for especially strong universities in Germany.

The CDU wants to strengthen research institutes outside the universities and bring more departments and branch offices to the state. To this end it plans a Fraunhofer strategy and a dedicated state budget. Lübeck is to become a center for AI in medicine and medical technology.

There are research institutes outside the universities. The CDU wants to bring more of them to the state. The state should set aside its own money for this. There should be a special plan for the Fraunhofer institutes. Lübeck should become a strong place for AI in medicine.

The CDU wants to fund top-level applied research at all types of universities. The focus is on energy transition and hydrogen research as well as digitalization and artificial intelligence. In the medium term, a dedicated competence center for energy transition research is to be created.

The CDU wants more research at universities. The research should be useful in practice. Key topics are energy, hydrogen and artificial intelligence. Later, there should be a center for energy transition research.

The CDU wants to keep the statewide semester ticket permanently and ensure that more students complete their degrees. Psychosocial counseling at universities is to grow considerably because, in the party's view, the Covid measures put heavy strain on students. Teaching is to take place mainly in person.

The CDU wants to keep the semester ticket. Fewer students should drop out. There should be more counseling for mental stress. Teaching at universities should mostly happen on site.

The CDU wants to give universities more responsibility of their own and amend the Higher Education Act for that purpose. The extended senate is to be abolished. At the same time, universities are to reach further into society, among other things through places for science communication.

The CDU wants universities to decide more on their own. For this, the university law should be changed. One body, the extended senate, should be dropped. There should also be places where everyone can experience research.

The CDU rejects civil clauses at universities, meaning self-commitments to conduct research only for civilian purposes. It also rejects requirements to use gender-inclusive language, especially when they affect how exams are graded. It bases this on academic freedom and on official spelling rules.

Some universities want to do research only for peaceful purposes. This is called a civil clause. The CDU is against it. It is also against rules that require gender-inclusive language. This should not affect exam grades in particular.

The CDU opposes the wearing of a burqa or niqab in university classes and exams. It sees this clothing as a sign of the oppression of women and considers visible facial expressions and gestures necessary.

A burqa and a niqab cover the face. The CDU does not want this in university classes and exams. It says this clothing stands for the oppression of women. People should be able to see each other's faces when they talk.

The CDU wants to introduce first aid and resuscitation courses in school lessons. It also calls for more physical activity during the school day, healthy school lunches and condom vending machines at secondary schools. The platform points to the effects of too little exercise and to Scandinavian countries as a model for first aid training.

Children should learn first aid at school. They should move more during the school day. School lunches should be healthy. Secondary schools should have condom vending machines. This is how the CDU wants to improve children's health.

The CDU wants to introduce a mandatory civic service year at secondary schools, lasting one school year. The aim is to introduce young people to volunteering early on.

The CDU wants a civic year at schools. Students then help at a club or group for one school year. They do this one afternoon a week. Everyone has to take part.

The CDU wants to strengthen democracy education in daycare centers and schools and add one hour of compulsory instruction in economics and politics (WiPo) in lower secondary school. The platform cites populism, conspiracy theories and falling voter turnout as reasons.

The CDU wants more civic education. Children should learn about democracy even in daycare. Schools should teach one more hour of economics and politics. Children and teenagers should learn more about extremism.

The CDU wants to keep religious education in schools organized by denomination and points to its protection under the Basic Law. It also plans an initiative for more dialogue among religions and with non-believers.

The CDU wants to keep religion classes in school. Children should learn about their own religion. They should also learn about other religions. The CDU also wants more talks between the religions.

The CDU wants to work with Islamic associations to introduce Islamic religious education in the state and conclude talks on an agreement. Together with other states, degree programs in Islamic theology are to be developed.

The CDU wants to set up Islamic religion classes in schools. It is talking with Islamic associations about this. The goal is a formal agreement. There should also be university training for imams and teachers. The training must be in German.

The FDP wants enough teachers at every school to cover substitute lessons as well. The platform says this requires teacher staffing above 100 percent of regular need. The aim is reliable teaching without teachers having to work extra hours over the long term.

The FDP wants more teachers in schools. Fewer lessons should be canceled. When a teacher is absent, another one should step in. The party wants extra teaching jobs for this.

The FDP wants to expand school social work at all types of schools. It also wants to reorganize and combine school aides, school assistants and school social work. The platform cites a growing need for support and more efficient use of resources.

The FDP wants more social workers in schools. These are trained people who help children with problems. Different kinds of help at school should work together better. Teams with several professions should form.

The FDP wants to support inclusive teaching where the right conditions are in place. It rejects raising the inclusion rate at the expense of teachers. The party says it will provide the resources needed.

Inclusion means children with and without disabilities learn together. The FDP wants to support this where conditions are right. Teachers should not be overloaded by it. The party wants to provide the needed resources.

The FDP wants to give all teachers a right to free continuing education that fits their needs and their type of school. Current formats, which are mostly driven by what is on offer, are to be reviewed. Each school is also to get its own budget for training.

Teachers should get a right to further training. The training should be free. It should fit what the school needs. Every school should get its own money for it.

The FDP wants to lower the rules on class sizes so that students get more individual attention. Teachers are to be relieved of administrative tasks so they can concentrate on teaching.

The FDP wants smaller classes. Then teachers have more time for each child. Teachers should have less office work. They should be able to focus on teaching.

The FDP wants to push ahead with digitalization in schools: every child should have a digital device, every classroom gigabit internet and Wi-Fi, and every school IT support. Digital learning is to be anchored in law as a form of teaching beyond the pandemic. The party calls on the federal government for permanent funding and simpler applications.

The FDP wants modern technology in schools. Every child should get a device for learning, such as a tablet. Every classroom should have fast internet. Teachers should get devices too. The federal government should pay for this permanently.

The FDP wants to gradually increase the number of hours for computer science. It sees the subject becoming compulsory in grades 7 and 8 from the 2022/23 school year as a first step. The party considers four weekly hours across all of lower secondary school too little.

The FDP wants more computer science lessons. In this subject, students learn how computers work. From grade 7, the subject becomes required. The FDP says the planned hours are not enough. It wants to add more hours step by step.

The FDP wants to gradually raise the number of weekly lessons in elementary schools and bring them in line with the higher level in other German states. The platform points to performance studies in which Schleswig-Holstein does worse than other states.

Children in elementary school should get more lessons. The FDP wants to raise the weekly hours step by step. Other German states have more hours. Schleswig-Holstein should have just as many.

The FDP wants to introduce a binding core vocabulary as a minimum requirement in elementary schools. Spelling is to be learned according to the nationally uniform rules, and all types of schools are to improve results in spelling and grammar. The recommendation on which secondary school type a child should attend is also to be strengthened.

The FDP wants children to learn reading, writing and math better. There should be a fixed list of words. All elementary school children must be able to spell these words. The recommendation for the next school should carry more weight.

The FDP wants to avoid elementary school classes being taught by teachers not trained in the subject, which the platform says is especially harmful in German and math. It calls for a binding course of study for elementary teachers in which both subjects are required.

The FDP wants well-trained teachers in elementary schools. Teachers should only teach subjects they studied. Future elementary teachers should always study German and math. They can pick a third subject freely.

The FDP wants Gemeinschaftsschulen (comprehensive secondary schools) to decide for themselves whether to set up classes organized by the diploma students are aiming for. The platform considers stronger grouping by aptitude and ability necessary to reduce the number of students leaving without a diploma. New upper-level programs at these schools would be reviewed critically.

Comprehensive schools should decide for themselves. They should be able to form classes for specific diplomas. The FDP says this helps more students finish school. The FDP wants to check new upper-level programs at these schools carefully.

At comprehensive schools, the FDP wants to replace the combined science subject NaWi with separate classes in physics, chemistry, and biology, and split Weltkunde (social studies) into history and geography. This is meant to raise quality and interest in STEM subjects. A dedicated program would get more girls interested in these subjects.

The FDP wants separate subjects instead of combined ones. Physics, chemistry, and biology should replace general science. History and geography should replace social studies. Girls should get more excited about math, science, and technology.

The FDP wants to strengthen career and college guidance classes as a mandatory part of the school timetable. Following the motto "no diploma without a next step," every student should have a secured path after finishing school.

Students should learn more about jobs and college at school. This should be a fixed part of the timetable. Everyone should know what comes next after school. The FDP also wants more internships and contact with companies.

The FDP wants to push for comparable conditions for final exams across Germany, because Abitur grades determine access to university places and training contracts. At the Gymnasium (academic high school), subject-based teaching is to remain the core and be expanded.

Exams should be similar all over Germany. Abitur grades decide who gets a university place. At academic high schools, subject teachers should teach their subjects. Students should have more freedom to pick subjects in the upper grades.

The FDP wants parents of children with special educational needs to choose between a Förderzentrum (special-needs center) and inclusive schooling. The current model of inclusive schooling would be evaluated for effectiveness. At the same time, the profession of special education teacher is to become more attractive.

Some children need extra help with learning. Their parents should choose the school themselves. The FDP wants to keep special-needs centers. It wants to check how well joint classes work so far. There should be more special education teachers.

The FDP wants to improve the quality of all-day schools and implement the legal entitlement to all-day care at elementary schools as quickly as possible. The federal government is to contribute more, including to running costs. In the medium term, all-day programs would be extended to other school types.

The FDP wants more and better all-day schools. Elementary school children should soon have a right to afternoon care. The federal government should pay more for this. Later, grades 5 to 10 should also get all-day programs.

The FDP wants to give schools more freedom in using their funds and steer them through target agreements. Principals and teachers would be supported with training and more compensatory hours. The platform argues that taking responsibility requires corresponding freedom.

Schools should decide themselves how to spend their money. Schools and supervisors should set goals together. Principals should get more training. Teachers should get more time for organizing and teamwork.

The FDP wants uniform quality standards for building and equipping schools and calls for a special school construction program funded by the federal and state governments. It cites equal opportunity, since schools' equipment and internet connections currently vary widely.

Schools are equipped very differently. The FDP wants the same rules for all school buildings. The federal and state governments should pay for repairs. Schools should have good technology, ventilation, and modern restrooms. All schools should be accessible for people with disabilities.

The FDP wants the subject WiPo (economics and politics) taught as a mandatory, continuous subject through to the intermediate diploma or Abitur. The state commissioner for civic education would become an independent state agency for civic and economic education. The stated reason is concern about rising extremism, racism, antisemitism, and conspiracy narratives.

Students should learn more about politics and the economy. The subject should be required until graduation. A new state agency should teach people about politics and the economy. The FDP is worried because extremism is growing.

The FDP wants to modernize vocational education and establish it in the minds of parents and young people as equal to a university degree. This is also meant to counter the looming shortage of skilled workers in Schleswig-Holstein. It calls on the federal government to quickly implement the "Excellence Initiative for Vocational Education" and a "Digital Pact 2" for vocational schools.

Job training should count as much as a college degree. The FDP wants to modernize vocational schools. There should be more continuing education. This way the FDP wants to make sure there are enough skilled workers. The federal government should pay for digital technology.

The FDP wants to draw up a plan so that as many occupations as possible can be trained for throughout the state. It gives high priority to the supply of skilled workers in rural areas.

The FDP wants job training to work in rural areas too. People should be able to learn many jobs everywhere in the state. Trainees with a long trip to school should get more money. Some classes could also take place online.

The FDP wants to expand full-time vocational schools and technical colleges and equip them with modern resources. Students there, for example those training as childcare workers or nurses, are to get better financial support, because unlike dual apprentices they often receive no training pay.

Some jobs are learned only at a school. Students there often get no pay. The FDP wants to change that and give them more support. It also wants to promote childcare jobs and nursing jobs.

The FDP wants to strengthen vocational schools and regional vocational training centers across all their school types. General schools would be required to tell students that school diplomas can also be earned through vocational education.

The FDP wants to strengthen vocational schools. Students can also earn school diplomas there, even the Abitur. All schools should tell their students about this. That should become mandatory.

The FDP wants to put continuing vocational education on the same financial footing as university study and make it free of charge in the medium term. Learning at any age is to be supported through tax incentives, education vouchers and broader funding.

People learn all their lives. The FDP wants to fund further job training. Later it should cost nothing, just like university. People who cannot read should also get help.

The FDP wants to address the teacher shortage with better working conditions. This includes a 13th monthly salary, more support staff in schools and a review of whether required teaching hours can be reduced.

Schleswig-Holstein lacks many teachers. The FDP wants to make the job more attractive. Teachers should get a 13th month of pay again. Other staff should take work off their hands. Teachers might then have to teach fewer hours.

The FDP wants to improve initial and continuing teacher education. A demand forecast is to show how many study places are needed at the universities in Kiel and Flensburg, especially in subjects with teacher shortages.

The FDP wants to train more teachers. First the state should work out how many teachers it needs. Then there can be more places at universities. Fewer students should drop out.

The FDP wants a statewide higher education strategy and more money for universities. Core funding, campus construction and digitalization are to be expanded so that the universities can compete nationally and internationally.

The FDP wants to strengthen the state's universities. They should get more money. Old buildings should be modernized. Teaching and administration should become more digital. There should be one plan for the whole state.

The FDP wants to amend the law to give universities more independence, for example over finances, construction and staffing. The ministry would set goals rather than manage details.

Universities should decide more for themselves. This covers money, buildings and staff. The ministry should only set goals. The FDP wants to change the university law for this.

The FDP wants to strengthen academic freedom and free speech at universities. It opposes extremism and what it calls cancel culture, wants gender-inclusive language to remain voluntary and would not allow civil clauses.

The FDP wants free research and free speech at universities. Gender-inclusive language should be voluntary. It must not affect grades. Universities should not be allowed to ban research for the military.

The FDP wants to promote top-level research, clusters of excellence and research on artificial intelligence in the state. Lübeck is to become a leading location for AI in medicine and medical technology, and a new institute for advanced study is to be created.

The FDP wants to support top research in the state. Artificial intelligence, or AI, matters most to it. Lübeck should become a leader in AI for medicine. A new institute for researchers should also be set up.

The FDP wants to support the founding of a vocational university that combines dual vocational training with a bachelor's degree. The aim is to strengthen dual training and meet the demand for skilled workers.

The FDP wants to support a new kind of university. Students do job training and study at the same time. They finish with a trade qualification and a bachelor's degree. This should bring more skilled workers.

The FDP wants to expand basic research and set up a research fund that provides money on top of existing budgets. It sees this research as the foundation for innovation and cutting-edge technology.

The FDP wants more basic research in the state. That is research without a direct product in mind. A special fund should pay for it. New ideas and technology should grow from it later.

The FDP calls for a quality drive in university teaching, with the federal government contributing substantial funds. It wants to fundamentally change the capacity rules so universities can invest more in digital teaching, student support and continuing-education modules.

The FDP wants better teaching at universities. The federal government should give a lot of money for this. Today a rule fixes how many study places there are. The FDP wants to change this rule a lot. Then universities can do more for good support.

The FDP does not want to introduce tuition fees and wants to keep and further develop the semester transit pass. It also wants to support the creation of more student housing.

Studying should stay free of tuition fees. The semester ticket for buses and trains should stay. The FDP also wants more housing for students. Towns and cities should provide land for it.

The FDP supports a comprehensive reform of BAföG (federal student aid) that is independent of parents' income and takes different life paths into account. In the state, it wants to raise the subsidy for the student services organization so applications are processed faster.

BAföG is state money for students. Today it depends on what parents earn. The FDP wants to change that. Applications should also be handled faster. The student services office should get more money for staff.

The FDP wants to anchor a statewide student representation in the higher education act and abolish the Extended Senate. It also plans a nursing degree program in the north of the state and further modernization of the university hospital.

Students should get one voice for the whole state. This should be written into law. One university body, the Extended Senate, should go. People should be able to study nursing in the north. The university hospital should be modernized.

The FDP wants to enable universities to prevent full-face veils and other symbols it considers extremist. There should be no obligation to use gender-inclusive language in university exams.

Universities should be able to ban covering the whole face. This also applies to signs the FDP calls extremist. No one should have to use gender-inclusive language in exams. That means naming all genders when writing.

The FDP wants to create additional university places in architecture and civil engineering. The aim is to gain skilled workers for housing construction and for clearing the renovation backlog of the state and municipalities.

The FDP wants more university places for architecture and construction. The state lacks experts for building homes. They should also help renovate old buildings.

The FDP wants to expand state funding for municipal teaching pools so that every child can learn to swim. Because swimming is a compulsory part of schooling, it sees the state as responsible for countering pool closures.

Every child should be able to learn to swim. That takes swimming pools. The FDP wants the state to give more money for pools. Towns and cities should not pay the costs alone.

The FDP wants to abolish the current religious education classes in schools and replace them with a subject on ethics and religious studies. It is to give neutral information about different religions and worldviews. The party bases this on the separation of state and religion.

Today schools teach religious education. The FDP wants to replace it. Instead there should be ethics and religious studies. There, children learn about many religions in a neutral way. The FDP says state and religion should be separate.

The Greens see daycare centers (Kitas) as educational institutions and want to revise the state's educational guidelines. Nutrition education is to be written into the daycare law, and nature experience and reading support are to be strengthened.

The Greens see daycare as a place to learn. The state should update its rules for learning in daycare. Children should learn about food. They should spend a lot of time in nature. Reading aloud should get more support too.

The Greens want to turn pilot projects on children's participation into a quality standard for all daycare centers. The state program for trauma-informed teaching in daycare is also to continue and possibly grow.

Children should have a say in daycare. This should be true in every daycare center. Some children have lived through terrible things. The state has a program to help them. The Greens want to keep this program.

The Greens want to improve daycare quality mainly through more staff. The time educators have for preparation and follow-up work is to rise by at least one hour.

The Greens want more staff in daycare centers. That should mean less stress for workers. Workers should also get more time to prepare. It should be at least one more hour.

To support inclusion, special-needs educators (Heilpädagogen) are eventually to work in every daycare center. As a first step, large facilities with more than four groups are each to get one such staff member.

Children with and without disabilities should go to daycare together. That takes specially trained staff. They are called special-needs educators. Large daycare centers should get one first. Later, every daycare center should have one.

The Greens want to attract more people to work in daycare centers (Kitas). Pay is to rise for all groups of educational staff, training routes are to be expanded, and staff are to be relieved of administrative and housekeeping tasks. Home-based child care (Tagespflege) is also to keep receiving support.

The Greens want more staff for daycare centers. The workers should get more pay. There should be more training places. Home-based child minders should also get more help.

The Greens want to continue the daycare reform with a focus on inclusion. Refugee children are to attend regular daycare centers from the start, and people with disabilities are to work as staff in educational institutions. The platform argues that daily contact counters prejudice.

The Greens want all children to go to daycare together. This includes children with disabilities. Refugee children should go to regular daycare right away. People with disabilities should also be able to work there.

The Greens want to develop the content of learning in schools, with open forms of learning and teaching across subjects and grade levels. The timetable framework is to be revised so schools get more leeway. The options for doing without grades are also to be widened.

The Greens want to change how schools teach. Schools should decide more for themselves. Children should find their strengths more easily. Schools should be allowed to skip grades more often.

The Greens want students to be able to use gender-sensitive language again without being penalized for it. Elementary schools are also to be allowed again to use Grundschrift (a simplified handwriting style) as a first script.

Students should be allowed to use gender-sensitive language again. They should not be marked down for it. Elementary schools should be allowed to use Grundschrift again. That is a certain style of handwriting for children.

The Greens want to push for a later start to lessons so that the school day fits better with the sleep rhythm of children and teenagers. At the same time, care before school is to be available everywhere for elementary school children.

School should start later in the morning. Then children get enough sleep. Young children should still have care early in the morning. This helps parents who work.

The Greens want to expand the PerspektivSchul program for schools in difficult social settings. A social index is to make sure money goes to schools according to need. The platform argues that social background still strongly shapes educational opportunities.

Some schools have a harder job than others. These schools should get more money. A social index should show how much each school needs. Children who fell behind during Covid should get help.

The Greens want to phase in, together with municipalities, the legal right to an all-day place for elementary school children that applies from 2026. The same rules for rooms, staff and equipment are to apply statewide. In the party's view, all-day schooling should offer education and not just supervision.

Elementary school children should be able to stay at school all day. From 2026 they have a right to this. The Greens want the same rules across the whole state. Sports clubs and music schools should take part.

The Greens want every child to be able to learn with a digital device at school and at home, regardless of parents' income. An overall plan is to be drawn up with school authorities. Teachers are to receive more training in digital teaching.

Every child should be able to learn with a tablet or laptop. This should not depend on the parents' money. Teachers should learn more about digital teaching. All schools should get fast internet.

The Greens want to expand media education and computer science education for all students. Computer science education is to be made a binding part of the revised timetable without adding to children's workload. To have enough teachers, computer science degree programs are to be set up in Flensburg.

All students should learn more about computers and media. This should be a fixed part of lessons. More computer science teachers are needed for this. People should be able to study for it in Flensburg.

The Greens want to strike the clause in the school law that makes joint learning depend on available resources. By 2024, 490 additional positions for special education teachers are to be in place. The party stands by the dual system of regular schools and special-needs centers.

Children with and without disabilities should learn together. This should no longer depend on money. There should be 490 new jobs for special education teachers. Special-needs centers will stay.

The Greens want to guarantee a right to education for children and teenagers who live in residential youth care or have no secure residence status. Teaching of German as a second language is to be expanded so that refugees and immigrants can earn recognized school diplomas.

All children should have a right to go to school. This includes children without a secure right to stay. It also includes children in care homes. Children with another first language should get more German lessons.

The Greens want students to receive all materials needed in class free of charge. Besides textbooks, this is to cover atlases, assigned reading and workbooks, and to apply to all types of schools.

School materials should be free for all children. This includes atlases and reading books. Workbooks should also cost nothing. This should apply at all schools.

The Greens want to stop assigning extra support hours per child and instead allocate them according to each school's needs. This is meant to allow preventive support for children even without a formally established special need. Uniform diagnostic rules are to apply statewide.

Some children need more help at school. Today schools get extra hours for each such child. The Greens want to give the hours directly to schools. Then children can get help without an official assessment. The same rules should apply across the state.

The Greens want teachers to get more support from other specialists, such as occupational and speech therapists. In the long run, every school in the state is to have a school social work position. The program justifies this with increasingly diverse classes.

More kinds of experts should work in schools. These include speech therapists and social workers. In the long run, every school should have a social worker. This gives teachers more help. Every child should get good support.

The Greens want to prepare future teachers better for digitalization, inclusion and self-directed learning. Digital education, including basic computer science, is to become a fixed part of teacher degrees. Offerings on mental health are to be added.

People who want to become teachers should learn more at university. This includes computers and digital media. It also includes teaching children with disabilities. The Greens also want more offers for mental health. This should help teachers in their job.

The Greens want to give substitute teachers without a master's degree a permanent route into the profession. University places are to be planned more closely to demand, since posts cannot always be filled with suitably trained staff. The practical training phase is also to become more transparent.

There are not enough well-trained teachers. Some people teach as substitutes without a full degree. Today they may only do this for five years. The Greens want to offer them further training. Then they can work as teachers for good.

The Greens want to give principals more time for leadership tasks and let schools hire administrative staff to assist them. Pay is to be based on the tasks involved. The program cites growing expectations placed on school leadership.

Running a school is getting harder. The Greens want to give principals more time for it. Schools should be allowed to hire office staff. Pay should match the tasks. Teachers with special duties should also get relief.

The Greens want economics/politics taught from seventh grade at all types of schools. Students, parents and teachers are also to have more say, for example through class councils. The program regards schools as a key place for democratic education.

Students should learn more about politics and the economy. The subject should start in grade 7 at all schools. Students should have more of a say at school. Class councils are one way to do this. Parents should take part too.

The Greens want plans for preventing sexualized violence to be applied regularly at every school. Everyone at the school should know where children and young people can get help. The program notes that, statistically, every class includes affected children.

Some children suffer sexual violence. It happens at home, in free time or at school. The Greens want every school to act against it. Every school should really use its protection plan. Everyone should know where children can find help.

The Greens want daycare centers and schools to be sensitive to children's traumatic experiences. A preventive group program is to be set up in schools and later become a regular service. The program cites flight, the loss of relatives or strain at home during the pandemic as possible causes.

Some children have lived through terrible things. This can be fleeing their country or a death in the family. The Greens want to help these children in daycare and school. Schools should offer groups for this. Staff should get special training.

The Greens want to anchor education for sustainable development firmly in all parts of the education system. Training and further education in all sectors are also to be geared to the shift to a climate-neutral economy. The program says only ten to 20 years remain for this.

Everyone should learn how to protect nature and the climate. This should be a fixed goal in schools and other places of learning. The Greens also want to train more skilled workers for climate protection. Museums and adult education centers should inform people about the climate crisis.

The Greens want to revise the flat-rate cost allowances for independently run schools in the next legislative term. The program regards Danish and independent schools as an important part of the school system.

Some schools are not run by the state. The Danish schools are among them. They get money from the state. The Greens want to recalculate the fixed amounts. This covers money for buildings, office work and school buses.

The Greens want more young people to start vocational training after school and all of them to earn a diploma. Youth employment agencies are to be set up statewide, and schools are to get plans to prevent dropouts. Practice-oriented programs are to continue or grow.

All young people should finish school with a diploma. More of them should start job training afterwards. There should be advice centers for young people everywhere. Schools should help early when someone may drop out. There are also classes with a lot of work practice.

The Greens want the state to play a bigger role in modernizing school buildings, so that school authorities with less money can also build and renovate. A model room program would set statewide standards for modern schools. The platform argues that many municipalities cannot handle the planning and the costs on their own.

Many school buildings need to be renewed. The Greens want the state to help towns and cities more with this. There should be a plan with clear rules for good school rooms. New schools should not harm the climate.

The Greens want to move the Schleswig-Holstein Institute for Vocational Education (SHIBB) from the economics ministry back to the education ministry. All vocational schools are to become Regional Vocational Training Centers. Statewide planning is meant to give every location a future despite falling student numbers.

SHIBB is an institute for vocational schools in the state. Today it belongs to the economics ministry. The Greens want to move it to the education ministry. All vocational schools should become regional centers. A plan for the whole state should keep the locations safe.

The Greens want to implement the federal government's planned training guarantee in Schleswig-Holstein, so that every young person gets a chance at a vocational training place. To that end, career guidance at general schools is to be strengthened and language support at vocational schools expanded.

All young people should get a chance at a training place. This also applies to young people who find learning hard. Schools should give better information about jobs. Young newcomers should get more help with learning German.

The Greens want to make it easier to move between vocational and academic education. A Berufshochschule (vocational college) is to combine a vocational qualification with, later on, a bachelor's degree. There are also to be more dual study places to meet the demand for skilled workers.

The Greens want to link job training and university more closely. There should be a vocational college. Students first get a job qualification there. Later a bachelor's degree should also be possible. There should also be more places in dual study programs.

The Greens want to keep raising base funding for universities to give them planning security. No public university in the state is to be at risk of closing. In addition, new departments are to be set up in Neumünster, with priority for a nursing degree.

Universities should keep getting more money from the state. This helps them plan better. No public university should have to close. Neumünster should get new study programs, first for nursing.

The Greens want to improve the digital infrastructure and equipment of universities and expand open data and open access. Foreign degrees are to be recognized more easily. In the border region with Denmark, there are to be many more joint degree programs.

Universities should get better digital technology. Research results should be free to read online. Degrees from other countries should be accepted more easily. German and Danish universities should offer more programs together.

The Greens reject the federal Excellence Strategy because, in the platform's view, it strengthens elite structures and leaves many departments without support. Instead, the federal government should raise funding for all universities in general. The Greens also want to boost knowledge transfer through innovation agencies.

The federal government gives extra money to a few top research projects. The Greens think this is not fair. They want more federal money for all universities. Until then, universities in the state should still be able to use the program.

The Greens reject tuition fees and want to continue the start-up grant for students from households on basic income support. The Studentenwerk (student services organization) is to get more money, mainly for housing and counseling. On BAföG (federal student aid), the party wants higher payments that are adjusted regularly and depend less on parents' income.

Studying should stay free of tuition fees. Students from poor families should keep getting money at the start. The student services organization should get more money for housing and counseling. Student aid should be higher and arrive faster.

The Greens want to turn the state's Continuing Education Act into a Continuing Education Funding Act and give more support to Volkshochschulen (adult education centers) and other education centers. Given rapid social and technical change, the platform sees lifelong learning as a main pillar of the education system.

Adults should also be able to keep learning. The Greens want a new law for this. Adult education centers should be able to offer more courses. People who have trouble reading and writing should find help everywhere.

The Greens want to turn the school subject of philosophy into a non-denominational subject called "Philosophy and Religious Studies." Denominational religious education would remain available alongside it.

Children with many religions and with no religion learn together at school. The Greens want a new school subject. It is called Philosophy and Religious Studies. It does not belong to any church. Regular religion classes will still exist.

The Greens want to actively involve science in the shift to a climate-neutral society. Plans include a statewide network of sustainability managers at universities, a real-world lab called “SH.Klimaneutral,” and a platform for citizen science.

The Greens want science to play a bigger part in climate protection. Universities should have experts for sustainability. A new network should bring together research, companies and citizens. Citizens should also be able to take part in research.

The Greens want to promote nature studies in and outside school, knowledge of species and the training of conservation professionals. The Freiwilliges Ökologisches Jahr (voluntary ecological year) and the ecological federal volunteer service are to grow and also be open to older people.

People should learn more about nature. This should be possible at school and in free time. The Greens want more places in the voluntary ecological year. There, people work for the environment for one year. People over 27 should also be able to join.

The Greens want to update how law school and the Referendariat (post-graduate legal traineeship) are taught and make them less stressful. The justice system is to become as diverse as society, and training on racism, sexism and anti-queer hostility is to be a fixed part of legal education.

The Greens want to make law school more modern. It should be less stressful. More different kinds of people should work in the justice system. Lawyers should learn more about racism and sexism.

The SPD wants all non-academic training programs in the social sector to be paid, at least at the national average level. Trainees employed by the state should also be guaranteed a job afterward.

People who train for a social job should get paid for it. The pay should be at least the German average. Trainees working for the state should be sure of a job afterward.

The SPD wants to make it easier for employees to take up further training. It plans an information campaign on Bildungsurlaub (paid educational leave) and will examine doubling the number of leave days.

Workers should find it easier to learn new things. There is educational leave for this. These are days off for learning. The SPD wants to inform people better about it. It will also check whether to double the number of days.

The SPD wants to set up a separate ministry for universities, research and technology transfer. It also wants to invest heavily in research and its transfer into companies and make universities more international.

The SPD wants a new ministry just for universities and research. The state should put much more money into research. There should be more degree programs in English. Students from abroad should learn how they can stay.

The SPD wants clear career paths and secure working conditions for academic staff below the rank of professor. Positions after the doctorate should generally be permanent, and positions for research staff should be planned as full-time jobs.

Many researchers at universities only have temporary jobs. The SPD wants to change this. After the doctorate there should be permanent jobs. Positions should be planned as full-time. Universities need more money for this.

The SPD wants to raise core funding for universities so that good teaching does not depend on winning third-party grants. In addition, an open science strategy is to make research results accessible to everyone.

Universities should get more steady money from the state. Good teaching should not depend on outside money. Everyone should be able to read research results. The SPD wants to make a plan for this.

The SPD wants to substantially increase spending on civic education and media education. In its view, this helps prevent radicalization, everyday racism and other forms of exclusion.

The SPD wants to spend more money on civic education. People should also learn to handle media better. The SPD says this helps against hate and exclusion. The programs should reach everyone.

The SPD wants to stop pupils from being moved down to a lower school type as a rule, including after sixth grade. It also wants a voluntary entitlement to ten instead of nine years of schooling and more all-day schools. The aim is to break the link between social background and educational success.

Some children are made to leave their school for a lower type of school. The SPD wants to ban this in almost all cases. Pupils should be allowed to stay in school for ten years. There should be more all-day schools.

The SPD wants the state to offer all school operators a central package for digital equipment, including operation and maintenance. Pupils from eighth grade on should receive or be able to obtain a digital device, and teachers should be freed from looking after the technology.

Not all schools have good technology. The SPD wants the state to help all schools with this. From grade 8, pupils should get a device such as a tablet. Teachers should no longer have to take care of the technology.

The SPD wants enough teachers so that lessons are rarely canceled even when staff are sick or on class trips. The long-term use of substitutes without teacher training is to end, and fixed-term contracts are to become the exception.

The SPD wants more teachers than the timetable needs. Then fewer lessons are canceled. Untrained substitute teachers should no longer work for long periods. Teachers should get permanent contracts.

The SPD wants to relaunch a school construction fund to renovate and modernize school buildings together with school operators. This includes a funding program for schoolyards and cafeterias and new room concepts from the #SchuleDerZukunftSH project.

Many school buildings are old and run-down. The SPD wants to provide money for school construction. Schoolyards and cafeterias should get better too. Schools should be nice places to learn and spend time.

The SPD wants to overhaul university studies, practical training and continuing education for teachers. Continuing education is to be mandatory more often and attended by whole teaching staffs because, according to the platform, the current format has little effect.

Teachers should be trained better. The SPD wants to review their studies and the training after that. Further training should be required more often. Many teachers at a school should attend it together.

The SPD wants to reduce the costs parents face when their children attend school. School transport costs are to be eliminated statewide until the intended diploma is reached, and a new study is to track how school costs have developed.

School costs parents a lot of money. The SPD wants to lower these costs. Getting to school should be free for pupils. A new study should show how much parents pay.

The SPD wants to continue the Perspektivschulen program (extra support for schools in disadvantaged areas) and equip such schools better based on a social index. School social work should be available at every school to an adequate extent, especially in disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Some schools face very hard conditions. The SPD wants to give these schools more money and staff. Smaller classes should be possible there. Every school should have school social work.

The SPD wants to move elementary school teachers into civil-service pay grade A13 as quickly as possible. It justifies this with the upcoming entitlement to all-day care in elementary school and the need to pay staff appropriately.

Elementary school teachers should earn more. The SPD wants to move them to pay grade A13. This should happen quickly. The SPD says: work at elementary schools is growing.

The SPD wants the principle 'only yes means yes' to be taught from daycare onward and included in textbooks. Schools are to cooperate with specialist counseling centers on sex education and develop plans against violence to protect children and young people from abuse.

Children should learn early: only yes means yes. Nobody may touch them against their will. This should also be in school books. Teachers should get training on it. Schools should have plans against violence.

The SPD wants to prepare elementary schools for the legal entitlement to all-day schooling starting in 2026, increase the number of compulsory all-day schools, and make all-day programs at elementary schools free. Healthy meals and reliable childcare during school vacations are to be added. The platform justifies this with fairness in education and helping parents combine family and work.

From 2026, elementary school children have a right to all-day school. The SPD wants to get schools ready for this. All-day programs at elementary schools should be free. There should be healthy food. Schools should also look after children during vacations.

The SPD wants to make career guidance mandatory from 7th grade and set up youth employment agencies (Jugendberufsagenturen) in every county and independent city. The hands-on program "Produktives Lernen" is also to be available in all regions. According to the platform, the goal is that no young person ends up without a diploma, vocational training or a degree.

Students should learn more about jobs starting in 7th grade. This should be required. There should be youth job agencies everywhere in the state. They help young people find job training. No young person should be left without training.

The SPD wants to introduce statewide planning for vocational schools and keep existing programs in place until it is ready. In occupations short of trainees, the state is to make small classes possible. The platform counts vocational education in all parts of the state as a basic public service.

The SPD wants a plan for all vocational schools in the state. Until the plan is ready, all programs should stay. The state should also pay for small classes. This way, vocational schools stay within reach.

The SPD wants to rebuild the state's continuing education law into a continuing education funding law and make the right to further training usable in practice. Employees are to be able to gain new skills while still in their jobs. According to the platform, this should keep people in work even during structural change.

People should be able to learn all their lives. The SPD wants to improve the law on further training. People should get training while they still have a job. This way they will have work later, too.

The SPD wants to set up an innovation fund for digital and flexible forms of study, such as part-time, distance and work-study programs. At the same time, it plans to invest in the university as a place to meet, because in the platform's view digital teaching does not replace in-person study.

During the Covid period, students learned a lot online. The SPD wants to keep and support good digital offers. There should be a fund for this. A fund is a pot of money. But the university should also stay a place to meet.

The SPD wants to charge no tuition fees up to the master's degree and keep the master's open to everyone in principle. Where needed, capacity in master's programs is to grow. Student counseling is also to get more staff.

Studying should stay free. This applies up to the master's degree. Everyone should be able to do a master's after the bachelor's. There should be enough places for that. There should also be more counseling for students.

The SPD wants to abolish attendance requirements in all courses and make degree programs less school-like. This is to include more electives, fewer module exams and a required option for penalty-free exam attempts.

Students should no longer have to attend every class. There should be fewer exams. Students should be able to choose more for themselves. They should also be able to try an exam once without risk. This is called a free attempt.

The SSW wants to give Frisian the same legal status as other school languages and expand teaching in North Frisia and on Helgoland. Frisian teachers are to get a job guarantee and a bonus, and teaching materials are to be free. The party argues that the Frisian ethnic group runs no schools of its own.

The SSW wants more Frisian in schools and kindergartens. Frisian should be a normal school subject. Teachers of Frisian should be sure to get a job. Learning materials should be free.

The SSW wants public schools in the border region and the Fehmarnbelt region to teach Danish or Frisian from the first year of school. In the party's view, multilingualism opens up opportunities for young people and strengthens the local economy.

Children in the border region should learn Danish or Frisian from first grade. This also applies to the Fehmarnbelt region. Vocational schools should offer these languages too. The SSW says more languages mean more chances.

The SSW wants to expand all-day programs and vacation care and significantly raise state subsidies for all-day schools. According to the platform, this promotes equal opportunity and makes work and family easier to combine.

The SSW wants more afternoon care. All schoolchildren under 12 should get an offer. There should also be care during school vacations. The state should pay more money for this.

The SSW wants to cut families' costs for learning materials, digital devices and school transportation as far as possible. According to the platform, education should not depend on parents' income.

The SSW wants school to cost families little. Books and materials should be free where possible. This also applies to tablets and laptops. The school bus should become free for older students too.

The SSW wants to achieve inclusion in schools through teams made up of different professions, while keeping special-needs centers (Förderzentren) where needed. Schools facing particular challenges are to get more staff.

The SSW wants all children to learn well together. Different experts should work together at schools. Special-needs centers should stay. Parents should have a choice. Schools with extra tasks should get more staff.

The SSW wants more money for vocational education and an overall plan that standardizes qualifications and eases transitions. Youth career agencies (Jugendberufsagenturen) are to exist permanently across the whole state.

The SSW wants to spend more money on job training. There should be one plan for all job training. Young people should get help when they move from school to work. Youth career agencies should exist everywhere for this.

The SSW wants to cut teachers' required teaching hours and relieve them through other professionals in schools. Open positions are to be filled with fully trained teachers.

Teachers have more tasks today than before. The SSW wants them to teach fewer hours. Other experts should help at schools. There should be more places to study teaching.

The SSW wants to make continuing education an equal pillar of the education system and draw more people into it. Grants for Volkshochschulen (adult education centers) and education facilities are to rise regularly.

The SSW wants more adults to keep learning. Courses should be affordable for people with little money. Adult education centers should get more money. This money should go up regularly.

The SSW wants to keep raising universities' core funding from 2022 and develop all locations in a balanced way. Universities are to complement each other in their profiles and become more international.

The SSW wants to give universities more money. All universities in the state should benefit. The universities should work well together. They should also work more with Denmark.

The SSW wants more permanent positions at universities and collective agreements for student employees. The program bases this on what it sees as the precarious situation of early-career researchers.

Many people at universities only have temporary contracts. The SSW wants more permanent jobs. Students who work at a university should get a collective agreement. A collective agreement sets pay and hours for many workers.

The SSW wants BAföG (federal student aid) to be paid regardless of parental income so that all students are supported equally. It also wants considerably more housing for students and trainees.

BAföG is money from the state for students. Today it depends on what the parents earn. The SSW wants to change that. All students should be able to get BAföG. There should also be more student housing.

The SSW wants schools to teach democracy more strongly and wants knowledge about Germany's four national minorities anchored nationwide in all areas of education. Education for sustainable development and STEM subjects are also to get more support.

The SSW wants students to learn more about democracy. People all over Germany should learn about the four national minorities. There should be teaching materials for this. Math, computer science, science and technology should also get more support.

The SSW wants better and permanent funding for arts and cultural education and wants it established as a field of its own in educational institutions. An overall "Education and Culture" strategy is meant to make projects sustainable.

Cultural education means learning theater, music, art and dance, for example. The SSW wants to spend more money on it. Schools and cultural programs should work together more. People of every age should be able to take part.