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The debate about school accompaniment in Hamburg has been affecting education policy for months. Before the summer holidays, a conflict arose because the school authorities did not always approve the requested services in applications for the new school year, even though overall expenditure increased slightly. Parents, schools and associations warned of fatal austerity measures.
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The school board will convene a special school board meeting to discuss the school attendance crisis.
Likely · Within weeks
The staffing situation for school accompaniments will continue to ease slightly in the coming months after improvements were made in the summer.
Possible · Within months
The school supervision is planning a general conference after the autumn break at the Karolina-Burger-Realschule plus in Ludwigshafen to talk about measures and readjustments. This includes personnel changes, pedagogical and structural measures. An application to dissolve the staff council is pending at the Mainz Administrative Court due to a possible threat to school peace. The Minister of Education emphasizes that the student body is not the main problem.
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