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Wiesbaden (dpa / lhe) - In the coming year, Hessen wants to invest the record sum of 4.3 billion euros in the education system, according to the words of Minister of Education Alexander Lorz (CDU).
The money is intended, among other things, for more teachers, language training, full-time expansion or digitization, he said on Wednesday in the state parliament in Wiesbaden.
Compared to the previous year, investments increased by 2.5 percent.
A total of 1156 additional teaching positions would be made available to the schools.
SPD education expert Christoph Degen criticized the education budget this time according to the motto: "May it be a little more?"
But in the end there is only "a little of everything and enough of nothing".
The budget draft is particularly useless when it comes to language training, "because the designated positions at primary schools cannot be filled anyway."
FDP MP Moritz Promny said: "A shortage of teachers and digital learning will remain the great challenges of the future, but I cannot see any well-founded solutions in the 2021 budget."
Heiko Scholz, education policy spokesman for the AfD parliamentary group, said the education system was in a "sad state".
«Ailing schools urgently need to be renovated.
The serious shortage of teachers is burdening the Hessian schools more and more and is leading to more and more lessons being canceled, ”Scholz explained.
There is currently a shortage of 13,000 teachers.
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The educational policy spokeswoman for the left-wing parliamentary group, Elisabeth Kula, criticized the failure of the schools in recent years to take revenge.
"The blatant shortage of teachers and the unacceptable overload of Hessian teachers have an even more painful impact in times of the pandemic," she said.