Minister of Culture announces "significant supplement" for teachers

Saxony's Minister of Education Conrad Clemens (CDU) wants to reduce the lack of lessons at schools with a bundle of measures. "I assume that the supply of lessons will improve noticeably this school year," Clemens told the "Freie Presse" newspaper.

More working hours will be better remunerated

This will not only involve seconding teachers from other types of schools to secondary schools. There are also plans for bonuses. "During the consultations at the start of the school year, we determined that we need to make further improvements to overtime teaching, the so-called MAU hours. That's why there will be a significant supplement from September 1," announced Clemens. This year, the schools will be given almost twice as much money as previously planned to pay for MAU hours.

The CDU politician thanked the teachers who are seconded to other schools. "I am grateful to all teachers who are seconded to a new school," he said. "For every school that is sad that a teacher is being seconded for a certain period of time, there is a school that is happy that a teacher is coming."