Ersatzschule, staatliche Anerkennung beantragen

• Sächsisches Gesetz über Schulen in freier Trägerschaft (SächsFrTrSchulG)
• Verordnung des Sächsischen Staatsministeriums für Kultus über die Genehmigung und Anerkennung von Schulen in freier Trägerschaft (Sächsische Freie-Träger-Schulverordnung – SächsFrTrSchulVO)
• Sächsisches Schulgesetz für den Freistaat Sachsen (SchulG)
• Sächsisches Verwaltungskostengesetz (SächsVwKG)
• Sächsisches Kostenverzeichnis (SächsKVZ)
• §§ 30, 30a Bundeszentralregistergesetz (BZRG) – Führungszeugnis

Recognition of alternative schools according to the Saxon Law on Independent Schools and the Saxon Independent School Ordinance (Sächsische Freie-Träger-Schulverordnung)

An approved alternative school can apply for state recognition after three years of uninterrupted operation. With the recognition, the alternative school receives the right to hold examinations and issue certificates. The school supervisory authority determines the composition of the examination boards.

• completed application for recognition as an alternative school
• Presentation of the development of the number of pupils, broken down by age group
• Overviews:
  • salaried teachers and honorary staff
  • Scope of employment for each teacher
  • Number, scope and content of in-service training courses completed by the teachers
• Evidence of the implementation of the timetables for the respective type of school and the respective course of education (for vocational schools: including the implementation of the internship requirements)
• Description of the development of the material equipment, including the teaching materials (how has the equipment of the classrooms and the teaching materials changed since the establishment of the school, what has been added, what has been abolished)?
• if the authorisation of the alternative school was based on deviations from the regulations of a corresponding public school or on a special pedagogical concept: self-evaluation of the status of the development of the pedagogical concept
• Declaration by the school authority that it is aware that the regulations applicable to the type of school and the course of education of the corresponding public school must be complied with in order for the alternative school to be accredited (admission and promotion of pupils, examinations, awarding of certificates including the acquisition of degrees)
• Certificates of good conduct (submission only after request by the Land Office for Schools and Education)

Your school must permanently fulfil the requirements that are also placed on corresponding publicly-run schools. The State Office for Schools and Education can check whether the requirements have been met by means of observation visits, among other things.

• Substitute schools providing general education must have been in operation for at least three years without interruption in order to be recognised.
• An exception applies to vocational substitute schools with one or two-year courses of education. These alternative schools can be recognised if a class of pupils has completed the course of education and at least 80 per cent of the pupils admitted to the examination have passed the final examination for non-school pupils.
• A further exception applies to alternative schools that are run as vocational schools; these can be recognised at the earliest six months before the end of the training and examination period specified in the training and examination regulations for the respective course of education.
• For secondary schools and community schools that emerge from existing and already recognised schools through a change of school type, there is the possibility of maintaining the existing recognition even after a change of school type for the corresponding school level.

• Procedural fee
• if applicable, further costs for required documents or expert opinions

If you have any questions about the recognition procedure, you can contact the Bautzen office of the State Office for Schools and Education.

• For the recognition procedure, it is necessary that you submit all application documents in duplicate.
• The Bautzen office of the State Office for Schools and Education checks the completeness and correctness of the application documents and, if all requirements are met, awards recognition as an alternative school.
• If necessary, the State Office for Schools and Education can request missing or incorrect documents.

• Application: by 30.09. of the calendar year prior to the year of the desired recognition

Note: Recognition can only be applied for for the beginning of a school year.

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