Overview
- The state disclosed Friday that 1,223 teachers have been hired so far this year and 1,059 have left, reversing last year’s negative personnel balance.
- Public schools in Sachsen-Anhalt now employ 16,274 teachers, including 2,739 lateral entrants, with 340 new Seiteneinsteiger recruited this year to fill vacancies.
- The ministry is expanding practice-linked learning by adding 17 Praxislerntage schools to the existing 55 and plans a Leseband reading block for up to 140 primary schools.
- Sachsen-Anhalt will let individual schools set smartphone rules rather than imposing a blanket ban, and the new school year starts for about 259,000 pupils with roughly 17,800 first-graders.
- Officials warn that demand for teachers remains high in the near term and say the current improvement depends on lateral recruitment and projected demographic decline that should ease pressure by around 2030.