Overview

• On July 3, Education Minister Karin Prien proposed nationwide German proficiency diagnostics for four-year-olds with mandatory follow-up support for those needing extra help.
• Prien also described school-level upper limits on pupils with migration backgrounds as a conceivable model informed by Danish and Canadian approaches.
• SPD education spokesperson Jasmina Hostert rejected migration quotas as fundamentally wrong and urged targeted support for all children regardless of origin.
• German Teachers’ Association president Stefan Düll called quotas an “ideal idea” but warned of significant logistical and pedagogical hurdles to implementation.
• Under Germany’s Basic Law education is a Länder matter, prompting premiers like Hendrik Wüst to question federal mandates even as they stress the urgent need to integrate roughly 100,000 non-German-speaking pupils.