Bavarian Minister of Culture and new president of the Education Ministers Conference, Anna Stolz of the Free Voters, dismissed proposals to abolish the nationwide appointment of teachers as civil servants.
“I am firmly committed to the civil service status of teachers in Bavaria-as a key pillar for quality, stability and the attractiveness of the profession” Stolz told the news portal POLITICO. “Civil service is the state’s commitment to reliability and responsibility for comprehensive classroom coverage, both in cities and countryside”.
She assured Bavarian teachers that they could rely on “stable conditions”. “That’s why we also rank so well in nationwide comparisons, with fully qualified teachers who deliver excellent work every day” she said. “This is decisive for high teaching quality”. At the same time, Stolz noted that structuring employment relationships remains the responsibility of the individual states.
On Thursday, Saxony’s Education Minister Conrad Clemens, a CDU member, called for a “Deutschland‑Pact against teacher civil service” in the newspaper Bild. The CDU’s small‑business association MIT, according to Bild, also presented a motion at the federal party conference urging that new civil‑service appointments be excluded outside clearly defined sovereign domains.