Schools in Brandenburg: cuts and billions for digital education!

Schools in Brandenburg: cuts and billions for digital education!

Zeuthen, Deutschland - The Brandenburg government has announced that despite the planned cuts in the education sector, it has been more in education. As part of the new double budget, an annual additional funds of 300 million euros are provided. These financial subsidies should primarily be used for the digitization of the schools, the Digitalpakt School 2.0 as well as for state licenses for learning software. The additional money should also benefit the strengthening of democracy education and the youth area.

At the same time, the government plans to reduce 345 full -time positions for teachers and pedagogical staff. This means that only 50 million euros are available for the salaries of teachers. In order to cushion the consequences of these cuts, 14 million euros were also provided for representative teachers. In the coming school year, an increase of around 3,000 students is expected, which could also increase the pressure on existing staff.

increasing workload for teachers

From February 2026, an hourly increase of an additional lesson per week will come into force for teachers. This measure is intended to reduce the loss of teaching, but comes at a time when 245 full -time positions will be eliminated in August. Parents and experts fear that the reduced number of teachers and the increasing workload could lead to a deterioration in the quality of training. This could have a disadvantage for students with special needs.

The Ministry of Education has given the opportunity to give schools to teachers, which in turn could lead to an overhang of teachers. At the same time, schools are encouraged to carry out less additional activities apart from the lesson, which could result in reducing parent discussions and class work.

Digitization of the formation of teachers

The need for digital education is meanwhile recognized as urgent. According to the Quality offensive teacher training are of course for pupils today. Teachers must be able to support students in dealing with these media and need comprehensive knowledge. The offensive promotes innovative measures for digitization in the formation of teachers, which was made as a focus from 2020.

For example, the Codip project at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg was launched to develop teaching concepts that effectively integrate digital media. Materials from these projects, which also include electronic diaries and feedback tools, are accessible as Open Educational Resources (OER) and should help to raise teacher training to a new digital level.

progress in the digital pact

The digitization of schools also remains a common task of the federal government, the states and municipalities. The Digitalpakt , which was agreed in March 2019, provides investments of a total of 5.5 billion euros, which are provided by the federal government and the countries. These funds are crucial for improving the digital equipment of schools and the necessary further training of the teachers.

In this context, Hessen also provided its own funds for digital educational infrastructure. In addition to the basic program, several additional agreements were made during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide students and teachers with the necessary equipment and to create a contemporary digital learning environment.

Overall, the situation at the schools in Brandenburg is characterized by both the notable investment in education and by the upcoming savings and the need for digitization. The coming months will be decisive to find the balance between personnel resources and the need for high quality education.