Erfurt (dpa/th) – Thuringia’s Education Minister Helmut Holter has defended the Red-Red-Green plans for a renewed reform of the school law. “Are we going the way to the school of the future, or are we going the way to the school of the past?” asked the left-wing politician on Thursday in the state parliament in Erfurt. The coalition’s proposals are a “modernity draft law”.
The parliamentary groups of the Left, SPD and Greens had introduced a comprehensive reform package for the education system. It has now been discussed in the first reading in the state parliament and referred to the education committee.
Among other things, it envisages abolishing the final exam at grammar schools in the tenth grade, fundamentally reforming teacher training, creating continuous practical relevance at regular schools and creating a legal basis for digital teaching. Red-Red-Green also wants to promote the development of community schools. The opposition is critical of many points in the draft. The CDU parliamentary group and the FDP group had made their own proposals to amend the school law.
