The digital Pact is to enable the Federal government to support the digitization of schools financially. However, the countries from the block. They fear a “centralization of school policy”.
schools in Germany to be modern and the digital age to customize. To allow, to adopt the Federal the so-called digital Pact. By the it would be allowed, the digitization of schools with Federal funds to co-Finance. However, the States make a stand against the Pact, as they see the sovereignty of one’s own skills at risk.
The countries could not accept, “if the Bundestag rigid co-financing of entrenched provisions in the basic law and, therefore, solid in the budgetary sovereignty of the country engages,” said the Rhineland-Palatinate Minister-President Malu Dreyer. Overall, the Federal government wants control of five billion euros for the modernization of the schools. The Problem: education is the responsibility of the States. The Federal government may not interfere, therefore, also not financially. To invest the Federal funds, wants to loosen the prohibition of the Federal government, this so-called Cooperation and the fundamental law of change.
