The IGLU data could become the trump card in the negotiations between the federal and state governments. After the Pisa shock, the performance of primary school pupils increased, and since 2011 it has been falling.
The data does not fall into an education policy black hole, but could fertilize ongoing negotiations. For the Startchancen program, the central education policy project of the traffic light coalition, the alarming figures of the I GLU study create further pressure to act. The BMBF has ignored this hard-won compromise in its recently published key issues paper.