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Baden-Württemberg Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens)
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There is a shortage of teachers in Baden-Württemberg, as in almost all federal states.
Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) has now proposed a solution: teachers in particular often work part-time – and could teach an hour more, said Kretschmann during a panel discussion in the “Stuttgarter Zeitung”.
"If they all worked an hour more, an hour, I would have 1,000 more teachers that I urgently need," the SWR quoted the Green politician as saying.
“That might also be an issue.”
Criticism comes from the unions.
"He has been head of government for almost 11 years," commented the head of the GEW education union, Monika Stein, on Twitter.
During this time there was an enormous shortage of teachers.
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That's not how we win skilled workers, we lose them!" Stein wrote.
In mid-March, the Conference of Ministers of Education (KMK) had to correct its forecast for the shortage of teachers.
By the year 2030, there will be a shortage of significantly more teachers than previously assumed.
According to the KMK, the gap can no longer be closed simply by increasing the number of study places.
Due to the Corona catch-up program and the integration of children who have fled from the Ukraine, additional educators are needed again.
In Baden-Württemberg alone, 630 positions for trained teachers remained vacant in the current school year as of September 1, 2021.
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