Overview

• Rheinland-Pfalz has prohibited unannounced homework and tests and begun piloting an AI learning assistant, SAFE secure storage and unified teacher emails.
• Hesse enforced a near-total ban on private smartphones, tablets and smartwatches in all public schools and introduced an AI chatbot plus additional school psychologists.
• Saarland announced plans to establish an Allianz für Sprachförderung und Teilhabe to strengthen early language support for children’s transition to primary school.
• Staffing levels have reached 99.6 percent in Rheinland-Pfalz and Hesse expanded teacher positions to 61,660 to address chronic shortages.
• Teacher unions praised the stress-reducing assessment changes while the Philologenverband and CDU-Landtagsfraktion criticized the reforms as political overreach undermining classroom autonomy.