“Hamburg Continues Corona Catch-up Program Measures with Additional Funding”

Hamburg (dpa/lno). After the end of federal funding for the Corona catch-up program in schools, Hamburg wants to continue some central measures. Starting next year, an additional three million euros will be made available annually for this purpose. The focus is on supporting schools with a particularly large number of students from social problems, said School Senator Ties Rabe (SPD) on Thursday.

Seven particularly affected schools are to continue to receive additional funds. Other central funding measures are the Hamburg learning holidays and the mentoring program “Connection” for fourth graders.

As part of the “Catching up after Corona” action program, Hamburg received 32 million euros from the federal government over two and a half years to counteract learning deficits and psychosocial stress among schoolchildren. In the same period, the city provided 170 million euros from state funds for the funding programs, said Rabe. This sum will be increased to around 178 million when the federal program expires next year, said Rabe.