The country has a lot of catching up to do with all-day primary schools.
But new calculations show: Far fewer new spaces need to be created than expected.
Still, green-black can't sit back and relax.
Stuttgart - The state government in Baden-Württemberg and the parents of future primary school children can breathe a sigh of relief: According to new calculations by the German Youth Institute and the Technical University of Dortmund, the need to expand all-day care in primary schools is nowhere near as high as previously assumed. Nevertheless, after North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg continues to have the highest expansion and personnel requirements.
According to the study, the green-black government in the southwest must create between 54,000 and 76,000 new all-day places by the school year 2026/2027 together with the municipal school authorities. Then the state could guarantee the legal entitlement of newly schooled children, which the Bundestag and Bundesrat decided in September. Most recently, it was said that Baden-Württemberg would have to create over 200,000 new places for this to happen.
Community assembly president Steffen Jäger has only recently known the new numbers, in his own words. “If there were fewer, then it would be good and I would be happy. But I still can't quite believe it. So far they haven't spoken to us in depth, ”said Jäger of the German Press Agency. The state and municipalities still have to agree who will bear what share of the investment and operating costs for the expansion. The figures from the Youth Institute serve as the basis for this.
In Baden-Württemberg there are currently around 2,400 primary schools, of which around 700 have all-day courses, some of which are either tied or voluntary.
According to the German Youth Institute, there were around 83,000 full-day places at primary schools in the south-west in 2019.
According to the new study, Baden-Württemberg has to create around 60,600 to 87,000 new places by the school year 2029/2030 in order to satisfy the full legal entitlement.
The range results from different factors in the calculation.
According to the study, there were 398,600 primary school children in Baden-Württemberg at the end of 2019.
At the end of 2029 it should be 450,500, an increase of 13 percent.
The country urgently needs to train new educational staff.
Around 2,300 to 5,000 new jobs would be needed in the school year 2029/2030.
That corresponds to about 3900 to 8400 people.
The overall lower demand means that “the costs will also be lower than previously assumed,” said the researchers.
Investment costs of 368 to 530 million euros are expected for Baden-Württemberg.
The annual operating costs for additional staff are estimated at 161 to 346 million euros if the country continues to put all-day care not only on the shoulders of teachers.
Otherwise costs of 176 to 378 million euros were incurred.
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The federal government has promised the federal states to support the all-day expansion with up to 3.5 billion euros for the infrastructure and to contribute permanently to the running costs.
According to the federal government, the funds will grow to up to 1.3 billion euros per year from 2030. At the initiative of Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens), the federal states initially suspended the law in the Federal Council in order to get more financial aid from the federal government.
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