Cologne

Childcare & School

Finding a Kita spot, enrolling in school, and everything in between.

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Bilingual Kitas in Cologne: The Little Bird Portal Actually Has a Language Filter

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Class Trip Costs at a Cologne School: Who Decides, How the Money Is Collected and How the City Pays for Low-Income Families

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Cologne Has No 30 Percent Kita Hardship Rule Either, But Two Different Complaints Go to Two Different Places

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Cologne Has No Single Overnight Camp Portal Either, Church Youth Groups Run Most of It

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Cologne Kita Closed in the Holidays? The Jugendamt's Duty to Provide Emergency Care and How to Use It

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Cologne Kita Closes 27 Days a Year, Your Statutory Leave Is 20: How Parents Cover the Gap at Work

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Cologne Kita Fees: Free Under 24,542 Euros, and Siblings Aren't Just Discounted

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Cologne School Holidays: Rosenmontag Is Not an Official Day Off

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Cologne: Tagesmutter and Kindertagespflege as an Alternative to Kita

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Cologne's Familienzentren Are Run by a Dozen Different Operators, But One City Office Runs the Actual Language-Integration Groups

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Cologne's OGS Closes for Roughly the Last Three Weeks of Summer, and a New NRW Rule Just Changed Who Has to Cover That Gap

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Does Your Child Qualify for a Free School Transport Ticket in Cologne?

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Finding a Kita in Cologne: The Little Bird Portal, Not koelnkitas.de

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In Cologne, Your Kita Bill Splits Into Two Different Debts, and Only One of Them Can Actually Cost You the Spot

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No Kita Spot in Cologne? Your Legal Right, and Why NRW Still Requires a Widerspruch First

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School Enrollment in Cologne: One School, No Automatic Right to Your Favorite

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School Lunch Payment in Cologne: No City-Wide System, So Ask Your Provider (Chips, Prepaid Accounts and Direct Debit)

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School Start Deferral in Cologne: Health Reasons Only, the Principal Decides

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The Cologne School Bus You're Not Imagining: How International School Transport Actually Works

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Your Child's Accident at Kita or School in Cologne Is Covered by Unfallkasse NRW, Not KUVB

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