State Student Council (Germany)

The state student councils also state student councils (LSV) are mostly associations of individual student councils from a federal state . The term "state student council" is a generally applicable term; the actual name of the respective association may be different depending on the state. (for example the Hamburg Chamber of Students or the Berlin State Student Committee )

Two of the main tasks of the regional student councils are regularly the organization of the cooperation of regional associations of the student councils (the district student councils or district student councils or other similar structures at regional level) and the representation of the interests of students towards the respective school or education ministry ( ministry of education ), the parties represented in the state parliament and other organizations.

There are currently state student representatives in all 16 federal states. In 2007, Bavaria was the last federal state to establish an official, statutory representation of interests, after having been a registered association for 25 years as an association of district school representatives.

A representation of interests above the state student representatives took place through the Federal Schoolchildren Conference (BSK) , in which, however, not all states are involved.

The structure also varies depending on the federal state. Nevertheless, there is always a supreme decision-making body that determines the positions of the LSV on educational issues. With deviations, the following organizational scheme can also be assumed:

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State student representatives : delegate committee, board of directors, possibly with a state school spokesperson as chairman
District student council : delegate committee, board of directors, possibly with a district student spokesperson as chairman, or district or city student council with a district school spokesperson
Student representative at each school
Student council as the highest decision-making body of the student council at the individual school
Class representative in a class
student

This is a purely exemplary distribution of honorary posts. The actual organization may vary depending on the state.

In some federal states, interested parties (without an office) also have access to the general meetings and in some cases also have the opportunity to participate. But often only elected representatives of state schools have access. Private individuals and students from independent schools are left out. In some federal states, state student councils for schools have therefore been set up independently. In recent years, starting in 2001 with the establishment of the regional student council of the Waldorf Schools in Baden-Württemberg, student councils of the Waldorf and Rudolf Steiner schools have also been formed in many countries. There are also deviations from the pupils to be represented who are organized in a LSV. There are state student councils that only represent one type of school, but also representations for all school types in a state.

State Student Council (Germany)

hierarchy

See also