• Education Minister Christoph Wiederkehr (NEOS) promised measures for more inclusion in schools at a parliamentary conference.
  • The legal entitlement for children with disabilities to an 11th and 12th school year is expected to come in 2027/28.
  • Parents should no longer be put in a supplicant role when children with disabilities want to continue education after the 10th grade.
  • Disability associations demand the right to the 11th and 12th school year also in secondary schools.
  • Protesters criticized a lack of resources and personnel, forcing parents to often pick up their children after just one hour.
  • Last school year, around 31,400 children in Austria had special educational needs.

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