Shadow Minister for Education Sarah Henderson says the Labor government has been asleep at the wheel when addressing the decline in education standards.
“We’ve not seen the Education Minister Jason Clare put any proper focus on declining school standards,” Ms Henderson told Sky News host James Morrow.
“It’s now so serious that 20 per cent of year seven students are starting with a reading skill of a grade four student three years behind.
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