Education chaos in Vienna: How returning the opportunities of the children!
Education chaos in Vienna: How returning the opportunities of the children!
The political power game in Vienna has taken a surprising turn: Christoph Return, the city councilor of the NEOS, is now the new Minister of Education of the Republic of Austria. This is done in the middle of the election campaign and triggers both a surprise and skepticism in the federal capital. According to meinbezirk.at , the recruitment is a result of the newly launched coalition talks between ÖVP, SPÖ and NEOS. After only five years as an education city council, the federal responsibility takes over - a decision that looks politically explosive for many.
Reconstruct of controversial balance sheet
Judith Pühringer, the party leader of the Green Vienna, has a sharp criticism of return time. It describes educational policy in Vienna as a large construction site that has been tightened by returning decisions. In her press release, she emphasizes that under his aegis there had been a blatant lack of teachers and educational staff in the kindergartens, while the promised improvements failed to materialize. Around 700 teachers are missing in public institutions, and the situation is anything but rosy at school. With only 70 school social workers for 470 locations, the conditions are unsustainable, according to Pühringer, as well as reported.
Return, which also acts as a mayor, has so far initiated innovative approaches such as the “Viennese promise of education”, but these measures have not had the desired effect. According to critical voices, these programs remain far behind the expectations and miss their goal of changing the educational landscape sustainably. In the past five years, the number of pupils with inadequate knowledge of German has increased to a maximum, which turns the previous German support offensives to appear as little success.
his move to the federal government has an immediate impact on the Vienna state government because it has to settle its previous offices. The NEOS have already nominated Bettina Emmerling as his successor as an education councilor who still has to be elected by the local council. The uncertainty about the continuation of the red-pink coalition in Vienna also remains, since the political landscape is strongly influenced by this sudden change. In view of these developments, the future design of education policy in Austria is more uncertain than ever.
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