24th February 2009 Saxon messenger
relief for families with young children: pre-school year for free now!
parents of preschoolers need in future for their offspring in Saxony in the last year of kindergarten do not pay contributions. This will take over March, the Free State.
"We want to relieve families with children," said Roland Standing WATT. The scheme applies to a nine-hour support, so for a regular full-day course. Information obtained by the free and the local carriers failing revenues are replaced by the Free State. The Ministry of Education this year is 31.6 million euros (from March) and next year 38 million euros. Currently there are 33 000 girls and Boys in the school year of preparation.
end of last year, Parliament had agreed on the free pre-school year and this is enshrined in the law on child care centers. The contributions to freedom begins for the parents usually on 1 August of the year before the child enters school. Contributors are free for the next 12 months. Will children be delayed in the course of the school, there is the exemption. Apply parents for their child to school early is the exemption from contributions from the month of application, but a maximum of 12 months.
How Wöller said visit, currently around 94 Percent of all children aged three to six a day care center. If more than one third of the children, the youth office will also pay the amounts so far been completely or partially, as have their parents on low incomes. The minister expects the contribution of freedom of the school year of preparation no significant increase of children in institutions.
25th February 2009 Saxon messenger
A university for the children
Also in this year there will be a children's university, the professors at the young listeners selected research from medicine, art, Ö , Ecology, Building and biology. Registration is possible via the Internet (www.ku-dresden.de) and by phone (call 463-36656). for works in the Hygiene Museum held the five lectures (beginning on March 31) in the Lecture Hall of the TU Dresden in Audimyx. They are intended for children aged between 8 and 12. Siblings, parents or grandparents can watch the lectures via a video screen in a second auditorium.
