The Federal Council has cleared the way for the so-called digital pact school. The Landkammer voted unanimously on Friday to amend the Basic Law in order to enable the 5.5 billion euros for digitization in schools.

Thus, the federal government can now pay the countries money for digital devices such as tablets or interactive tablets and learning programs, although this was always the task of the countries.

The constitutional amendment, which had been planned for a long time, had caused a dispute between the federal government and the federal states, so the mediation committee was called. Finally, the Federal Government withdrew from its earlier demand that federal subsidies should be imposed on countries in the same amount as supplementary payments. Instead of this 50:50 rule, the funding ratio between the federal government and the federal states for each project should now be determined individually.

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