According to Federal Education Minister Anja Karliczek (CDU), the 500 million euros of the federal government for the purchase of service laptops for teachers can soon flow. The administrative agreement necessary for this has now been concluded with the federal states. This must be signed in each country, then by the Federal Minister of Education, before the funds can be released.

Distance teaching in Corona -Times The complicated procedure is related to German federalism. The Länder are each responsible for education and their schools. The federal government is not actually allowed to have a say and not simply inject money, which is why such federal-state agreements are necessary.

“I hope that teachers’ laptops can be purchased from the program across the board soon,” said Karliczek of the German Press Agency. In case of doubt, this will also help to make distance teaching easier in the corona pandemic.

Money for teacher laptops from “school summit ” Representatives of the federal states, SPD leader Saskia Esken and Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) initiated the service laptop program at a” school summit “in the Chancellery in August. In addition to a 500 million program to equip needy schoolchildren with rental laptops and further 500 millions To finance IT administrators for schools, it is the third increase in the so-called digital school pact.

This funding program with originally 5 billion was funded by the federal government 2019 for the development of the digital infrastructure at the schools, for example to install the school’s own WLAN or to purchase digital boards – so-called smartboards.

(tiw)