Overview

• The protest took place Wednesday morning in front of the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament in Magdeburg.
• Demonstrators called for greater equal opportunity, more participation in decision-making, and diversity in early-childhood institutions.
• Participants warned against reducing personnel and urged better working conditions in childcare facilities.
• Protesters brought colorful balloons and burst them as a symbolic action outside the parliament building.
• In a subsequent committee hearing, a parents' advocate urged renewal of an overstretched system as the social minister said she wants to help municipalities retain educators despite falling child numbers.