After the resignation of Brandenburg’s Education Minister Britta Ernst (SPD), the new CDU leader Jan Redmann indirectly criticized the coalition partner SPD. Redmann supported Ernst’s proposals to cushion the shortage of teachers. “Anyone who has now criticized that the medicine that Britta Ernst proposed was too bitter is of course obliged to present their own alternative proposals that are more pleasing,” said Redmann on Tuesday in Potsdam. But at the same time they would have to solve the problem as well. “I am not yet aware of these alternative proposals.”
Ernst surprisingly resigned on Monday, citing a lack of support in the SPD parliamentary group as the reason. 1,800 new teachers are needed for the coming school year, and it is not foreseeable that they will be recruited. Among other things, Ernst wanted to reallocate 200 permanent teaching positions to positions for administrative specialists and school social workers.
In this way, teachers in schools in rural areas with a high proportion of lateral entrants should be relieved of administrative tasks. At the same time, however, resources for remedial and all-day teaching and inclusion should be reduced in all schools. The SPD education politician Katja Poschmann in particular had criticized this, but also Green Party leader Petra Budke.
The CDU parliamentary group leader sees Brandenburg in a very critical situation: “There is an acute risk that we will get into a situation, especially in the rural regions of Brandenburg, in which so many classes are canceled that degrees can no longer be obtained,” said Redmann . (dpa)
