Overview

• The state parliament will decide on June 20 whether to adopt a double-year budget that trims 345 teaching posts next school year and 100 the following year.
• Under the proposal, teachers would be required to teach one additional hour per week to address staffing shortfalls.
• Coalition factions increased funding for substitute teachers and reinstated student school assistants as mitigation measures.
• More than 21,000 parents signed a petition presented to Landtag President Ulrike Liedtke demanding the reversal of education cuts.
• Education Union GEW and teachers’ associations filed a formal complaint and thousands of educators, parents and carers demonstrated against the austerity plans.