The digital Pact provides for a great deal of trouble between the Federation and the länder: Today, the Federal Council will probably call the mediation Committee. Therefore, the countries do not wish to support the amendment of the basic law.
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What is the Digital deal?
Because many of the German schools on the subject of digitization of catching up to do, wants to help the Federal government, schools with Laptops, Notebooks, Tablets, and Smartboards. Under the title “digital Pact school” have the Federation and the Länder is an administrative agreement with each other. The design steps are defined, such as the digitalization of schools is designed.
in Concrete terms, the Federal government wants to make over a period of five years, a total of five billion euros, of which 3.5 billion Euro in this legislative period. Los it was supposed to go on 1. January 2019.
But shortly before signing, the countries made a climb-down. Because: the management agreement can be implemented is a fundamental change in the law is necessary, because education policy is constitutionally actually solely a matter for the countries. The corresponding draft law, the Bundestag had already decided to go to the countries now. You mind that the “ban on Cooperation” should be relaxed.
What is actually a ban on “Cooperation”?
Since the federalism reform of 2006, there is the keyword “ban on Cooperation”. Is referred to, somewhat exaggerated by the fact that the Federal government is allowed to give countries financial assistance to areas for which only the States are responsible. This is, in particular, in the formation of the case. The aim was that the Federal government should exert on the educational policy of the countries of no influence.
