Education is one of the recurring subjects of the 2023–2028 legislature, from the debate on the education chapter of the government programme in November 2023 to the bill on a public European school in Schifflange in June 2026. The sittings covered the ALPHA project on literacy teaching in French, the public European schools and educational fairness, the inclusion of children with special needs, and the streams of secondary education. The quotes below are taken verbatim from the Compte rendu officiel of each sitting.
\nOn 1 February 2024, during the child-poverty interpellation on whether school works as a social lift, Paul Galles stated that school often cements a child's social status and needs much further work.
\n\n\nAlso duerchaus en Domän, an deem mer an deenen nächste Joren nach ganz vill musse schaffen, well d’Schoul ganz oft de soziale Status vun engem Kand zementéiert.
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So very much a field in which we have to work a great deal in the coming years, because school very often cements a child's social status.
\nSitting of 1 February 2024, Paul Galles, CSV
\nOn 22 January 2025, during the interpellation on the public European schools and educational equity, Ricardo Marques stated a figure on the language spoken at home by primary pupils.
\n\n\nMir mussen nämlech dem Fait Rechnung droen, datt mëttlerweil nach just een Drëttel vun de Kanner an der Grondschoul doheem Lëtzebuerg schwätzt.
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We must take account of the fact that by now only a third of the children in primary school speak Luxembourgish at home.
\nSitting of 22 January 2025, Ricardo Marques, CSV
\nOn 17 June 2026, during the debate on the bill creating a public European school in Schifflange, Ricardo Marques set a limit on the role of public international schools.
\n\n\nMee grad dofir musse mir kloer soen: Dës Offer soll eng Alternativ sinn an net den Ersatz fir den traditionelle Lëtzebuerger Schoulsystem.
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But precisely for that reason we must say clearly: this offer should be an alternative and not a replacement for the traditional Luxembourg school system.
\nSitting of 17 June 2026, Ricardo Marques, CSV
\nOn 23 November 2023, in the debate on the education chapter of the government programme, Gilles Baum described the planned overhaul of the school curriculum by 2026.
\n\n\nBis 2026 soll dee komplett iwwerschafft ginn, fir de Kanner déi wichteg Zukunftskompetenze mat op de Wee ze ginn, wéi zum Beispill kritescht Denken, Kommunikatioun, Kreativitéit, Zesummeschaffen, awer och den Ëmgang mat den neien Technologien.
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By 2026 it is to be completely revised, in order to give children the important future skills, such as critical thinking, communication, creativity, working together, but also handling the new technologies.
\nSitting of 23 November 2023, Gilles Baum, DP
\nOn 20 May 2026, in the debate on the ALPHA project and literacy teaching in French, Gilles Baum stated that no Luxembourgish child will be required to learn to read and write in French.
\n\n\nKee lëtzebuergescht Kand wäert mussen op Franséisch alphabetiséiert ginn.
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No Luxembourgish child will have to be taught literacy in French.
\nSitting of 20 May 2026, Gilles Baum, DP
\nOn 22 January 2025, opening the interpellation on the public European schools and educational equity, Francine Closener stated a comparative figure on educational inequality in Luxembourg.
\n\n\nZu Lëtzebuerg ass de Gruef tëscht benodeelegte Schüler a Schüler aus favoriséierte Milieuen esou grouss wéi a kengem aneren EU-Land.
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In Luxembourg the gap between disadvantaged pupils and pupils from favoured backgrounds is as large as in no other EU country.
\nSitting of 22 January 2025, Francine Closener, LSAP
\nOn 20 May 2026, in the debate on the ALPHA project and literacy teaching in French, Taina Bofferding stated that school should act as a social lift.
\n\n\nD’Schoul soll de soziale Lift sinn, deen et erméiglecht, datt Kanner aus bescheidene Verhältnisser weiderkommen, sech emanzipéieren an aktiv un der Gesellschaft deelhuelen.
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School should be the social lift that lets children from modest backgrounds get ahead, emancipate themselves and take an active part in society.
\nSitting of 20 May 2026, Taina Bofferding, LSAP
\nOn 23 November 2023, in the debate on the education chapter of the government programme, Fred Keup stated his party's opposition to literacy teaching in French.
\n\n\nKonkreet Alphabétisation en français: Dir wësst, dass mer do dergéint sinn. Fir eis ass dat getrennt Wuessen a mir wëllen net, dass eis Kanner getrennt sinn.
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Concretely, literacy teaching in French: you know that we are against it. For us that is growing up separately, and we do not want our children to be separated.
\nSitting of 23 November 2023, Fred Keup, ADR
\nOn 20 May 2026, in the debate on the ALPHA project and literacy teaching in French, Fred Keup opposed literacy teaching in French and the separation of children by language at school.
\n\n\nMir dierfe Kanner net schonn an der Schoul no Sproochen trennen. Mir sinn dofir géint d’franséisch Alphabetiséierung.
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We must not separate children by language as early as school. We are therefore against literacy teaching in French.
\nSitting of 20 May 2026, Fred Keup, ADR
\nOn 28 February 2024, opening the interpellation on the inclusion of children with special needs, Meris Sehovic stated the average number of days between a request for support and the decision.
\n\n\nD’Zuele vun der nationaler Inklusiounskommissioun hu gewisen, dass an der Moyenne 203 Deeg vergi vun der Demande bis zu der Entscheedung.
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The figures of the national inclusion commission showed that on average 203 days pass from the request to the decision.
\nSitting of 28 February 2024, Meris Sehovic, déi gréng
\nOn 19 November 2025, during the extended question on a German-language stream in secondary education, Djuna Bernard proposed a German-language stream across the whole secondary school.
\n\n\nWier d’Schafe vun enger Filière allemande am gesamte Lycée net e logesche Parallellismus zu de Filières françaises an eng Konsequenz an awer och eng Kontinuitéit zu deem Modell, dee grad am Moment amgaangen ass, am Fondamental geschaaft ze ginn?
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Would creating a German-language stream across the whole secondary school not be a logical parallel to the French-language streams, and a consequence and continuity of the model currently being created in primary education?
\nSitting of 19 November 2025, Djuna Bernard, déi gréng
\nOn 22 January 2025, during the interpellation on the public European schools and educational equity, Sven Clement judged that the European schools have not met their original aim.
\n\n\nDat ursprénglecht Zil also vun den Europaschoulen, nämlech eng besser Bildungsgerechtegkeet, gouf bis elo mat dëser Offer hei net erreecht.
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So the original aim of the European schools, better educational fairness, has not been reached until now with this offer.
\nSitting of 22 January 2025, Sven Clement, Piraten
\nOn 1 February 2024, during the child-poverty interpellation on school as a social lift, Marc Baum cited the national education report to say the school system worsens social inequality.
\n\n\nAn och dat weist jo eisen nationale Bildungsrapport, datt eise Schoulsystem déi sozial Inegalitéiten eeben net ausgläicht, mee tendenziell esouguer nach verschlëmmert.
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And our national education report shows this too: our school system does not balance out social inequalities, but tends even to make them worse.
\nSitting of 1 February 2024, Marc Baum, déi Lénk
\nOn 25 June 2024, in the debate on the bill creating three new sections in classical secondary education, David Wagner criticised the early streaming of pupils at the age of twelve.
\n\n\nMat zwielef Joer gi Kanner op eng Bunn gesat, Classique oder Technique, Akademiker – zukünfteg Akademiker – oder Handwierker et cetera.
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At twelve years old children are put on a track, classique or technique, academics, future academics, or craftspeople and so on.
\nSitting of 25 June 2024, David Wagner, déi Lénk
\nOn 1 February 2024, replying to the child-poverty interpellation on school as a social lift, the Minister of Education, Children and Youth named early support and good early-childhood provision as one of two promising routes.
\n\n\nDat eent, dat ass, méi fréi unzefänken, d’Kanner fréi ze ënnerstëtzen an hirer Entwécklung an dowéinster eeben och gutt Bildungsleeschtungen an der fréier Kandheet, also gutt Crèchen, ze assuréieren.
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The one is to start earlier, to support children early in their development and therefore to assure good educational provision in early childhood, that is good creches.
\nSitting of 1 February 2024, Claude Meisch, Ministre de l’Éducation nationale, de l’Enfance et de la Jeunesse
\nOn 3 December 2025, in the debate on the bill letting parents choose the language of alphabetisation, the Minister of Education, Children and Youth argued that the generalisation of the pilot cannot wait.
\n\n\nAn duerfir sinn ech der Meenung, datt mer net nach kënne waarden, bis mer „ALPHA – zesumme wuessen“ generaliséieren, fir deene Kanner do eng Chance ze ginn, elo endlech eng Chance ze ginn.
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And therefore I am of the opinion that we cannot wait any longer to generalise ALPHA - growing together, to give those children a chance, to give them a chance now at last.
\nSitting of 3 December 2025, Claude Meisch, Ministre de l’Éducation nationale, de l’Enfance et de la Jeunesse
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