Berlin strengthens schools: 180 facilities for equal opportunities promote!

Berlin strengthens schools: 180 facilities for equal opportunities promote!

Berlin, Deutschland - On June 12, 2025, the Berlin Senate announced that the starting chances will be expanded to improve the quality of education at schools with special challenges. This program, which will run for a total of ten years, aims to strengthen the basic skills of the students. The second tranche of the program now promotes 118 other schools, so that a total of 180 schools can benefit from the measures. With this initiative, Berlin sets an important sign of educational justice and quality.

The starting chances program receives a total budget of 460 million euros. In the first tranche, 46 million euros were provided for 59 schools. Over the next ten years, up to 160 schools in Berlin are to take part in the program. The funded school types include primary schools, integrated secondary schools, special schools and vocational schools. Schools were selected on the basis of a nationwide social index that took into account social conditions, immigration and student performance.

planned measures and implementation

A central component of the program is the support of multi -professional teams in schools. This includes not only the provision of additional staff, but also measures such as further training, coaching and external process support. The schools receive the necessary scope for maneuver to adapt their measures to the specific needs of their students. Specific reading and math offers as well as additional funding times are planned to compensate for educational deficits.

Berlin is actively working on the fact that all twelve districts are involved in the program. The distribution of the funded schools shows that the districts of Mitte and Neukölln with 13 eligible schools each stand out. Other districts such as Spandau and Reinickendorf are also strongly represented. With these measures, the city pursues the goal of promoting equal opportunities for all students and thus reducing social inequalities in the education system in the long term.

background and social relevance

equal opportunities is a superior goal in the German educational landscape, as well as numerous studies. An examination of the Emnid cantar in 2017 showed that 78 % of German equal opportunities consider it important, regardless of social background or gender. Education inequalities that affect children from disadvantaged conditions in particular remain an urgent problem. Although educational success has been improved in the entire society, statistics show that children from academic families have a significantly higher probability to achieve the Abitur than their peers from workers' families.

The PISA study also illustrates the existing differences in the basic skills. In the study, 16 % of the young people only achieve the lowest level of competence in reading, with this proportion of children of unusual and learned workers even 25 %. In order to counteract these grievances, it is essential to develop a comprehensive sociopolitical strategy to combat social inequality that goes beyond the education system and takes a look at all aspects of equal opportunities, as the Federal Center for Political Education underlines

The official kick-off event with all the schools in the starting chances program involved will take place next Monday. This initiative could make a decisive difference for the upcoming generation of schoolchildren and contribute to promoting educational justice in Berlin.

For more information on the details of the program and the previous progress, take a look at the reports of berlin.de , rbb24.de and bpb.de .