FDP Set to Revolutionize Education Following Party Summit in Bremen

Bremen – Big FDP meeting in the Hanseatic city!

On Monday and Tuesday, liberals from Bremen, the federal government and Europe met for the conference of parliamentary group leaders in the Atlantic Hotel.

Also present: local top executives such as Lencke Wischhusen or Thore Schäck, but also federal boss Christian Dürr and education minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger.

Almost 2 months before the general election, it was about showing strength and unity. On May 14, it will be decided whether the FDP will enter parliament again.

A central theme: education. Particularly important in the smallest federal state, after all, Bremen has traditionally lagged behind here and is at the bottom of almost all performance comparisons.

The FDP wants to change that. At the two-day party summit, the parliamentary group leaders decided on a position paper that should revolutionize the education system in this country.

Main points:

► Promotion of vocational schools, more young people should be encouraged to take up apprenticeships.

► Cooperation between educational institutions and companies should be strengthened, for example through internships or company presentations, career orientation for young people should be made easier.

► A so-called Start Chances program is intended to provide more support for children from socially disadvantaged circumstances in order to create equal opportunities with different prerequisites.

► Every child should have a legal right to a day-care center or all-day school place.

► With closer cooperation between the federal and state governments, the FDP wants to enable the “world’s best education”. More should be invested in this. According to the motto: Good education has its price. However, poor education is still much more expensive.

The Bremen FDP top candidate Thore Schäck: “Setting up the German education system to be modern and future-proof is an enormous challenge. The situation in Bremen is much more difficult: the situation is at the bottom of all educational comparisons, with insufficient daycare places and with too many young people without qualifications hard to bear. We urgently need a change in content, structure and politics.”

The chairman of the FDP parliamentary group Christian Dürr on BILD: “The previous governments watched silently as our education system slipped into a crisis. It must not go on like this. We must ensure that the federal and state governments work better together so that we can fundamentally modernize our education system. This includes the introduction of the start opportunities program to support disadvantaged students and the strengthening of dual training.”