Saxony's Minister of Culture Christian Piwarz (CDU) believes that the continuation of the digital pact for schools in Germany is at risk and that the federal government has a duty to act. He said in Dresden on Wednesday that it was currently uncertain whether the Digital Pact 2.0 would actually happen and if so, in what form. The digitalization of schools remains a major task for society as a whole. "We urgently need a clear statement on how to proceed with the digital pact." The federal states had already formulated their position in December 2022. In many places, they had been held up in the negotiations, had not received any concrete statements and were now up in the air.
Piwarz spoke of a hanging game. He said that the federal government was making demands that were hardly acceptable to the federal states. The federal government wants to have a say that it is not entitled to under the Basic Law. For example, the federal government wants teachers to have at least 30 hours of digital training per school year. "That may be a decent requirement. But with the best will in the world, it has no place in a contract between the federal government and the federal states." There are other "encroachments", all of which are at the expense of the federal states. "I can only very much hope that a predetermined breaking point is not built in here to get the federal states to say no."
