Volume 73 (2025), Edition 2

The federal and state governments want to raise a total of 20 billion euros for the school system with the Startchancen programme. The programme is intended to support schools with a high proportion of socially disadvantaged schoolchildren. In terms...

The article examines reform perspectives for the federal distribution of competences in the area of school education. It analyzes constitutional limits, institutional models and concrete possibilities for change to achieve a more cooperative and...

The question of whether a compulsory last year of nursery school is permissible under German constitutional law has been the subject of controversial debate in the literature to date. This article, which is based on a legal opinion for the State...

School social work has become an essential part of the state education system, addressing the social, personal, and academic challenges faced by children and adolescents. In the context of tensions between the educational mandate of schools and...

The new Bavarian school fees guideline standardizes statewide conditions for prohibiting segregation, defines “school fees,” lists impermissible segregation effects, and permissible models. It has implications for business considerations, tax...

The article discusses the decision of the Administrative Court of Düsseldorf (order of 4 December 2024, case no. 18 L 2925/24) regarding the ban on wearing the niqab in the classroom in light of current case law and academic literature on the...

Austria is a federal republic and in 2019 its constituion was adapted. There is a board of education („Bildungsdirektion“) in every federal state, which combines the administration of federation and states in one authority. We summarize the...