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Erfurt (dpa / th) - Free schools in Thuringia are to receive 217 million euros in the coming year.
The parliamentary groups of the Left, SPD, Greens and CDU agreed on this after a meeting of the education committee on Thursday.
For months there had been a struggle for a new financing model for the independent schools.
In addition to the 217 million for the coming year, the recommendation for a resolution envisages expiring the regulations on state financial aid.
This leads to more planning security for the free schools, said the education policy spokesman for the left parliamentary group Torsten Wolf.
In addition, from 2021 the annual student costs will increase, linked to the development of wages and prices in the state school system.
External experts should regularly check whether the financial aid is appropriate.
According to the decision, the independent school authorities should also be included in the subsequent qualification of lateral entrants as teachers, said the education policy spokeswoman for the Green parliamentary group, Astrid Rothe-Beinlich.
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"We are now creating a permanent solution in the interests of the 27,000 students at the Free Schools in Thuringia and thus enforcing educational justice," said the education policy spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group, Christian Tischner.
So far, free schools have received 80 percent of the costs incurred by a student at a state school for each student from the state.
For a long time, however, the independent schools have been complaining that this is not enough and that the costs are at least partially significantly higher.
The corresponding legal basis for calculating the state funds expires at the end of the year and must be extended or changed.
According to the Ministry of Education, 165 of the 978 schools in the Free State are privately owned.