article_snippet.sent: The Tories claim that, too often, pupils who have slipped behind by this stage never catch up.
article_snippet.sent: Labour's shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt dismissed the proposal as 'Labour's shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said dismissed the announcement as a 'a desperate attempt by the Tories to try to overshadow the Tories failures on school standards'.
article_snippet.sent: Labour's shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said: 'On the Tories watch, 1.6 million pupils are being educated in schools that are rated lower than 'good' by Ofsted.
article_snippet.sent: And as a result of David Cameron's unqualified teachers policy, more than 400,000 pupils are being taught by unqualified teachers. '
article_snippet.sent: Labour has a better plan for education.
article_snippet.sent: The Lib Dem Schools Minister David Laws said the Tories had 'no credibility' on education because of the Tories planned spending cuts after the election.
article_snippet.sent: The Lib Dem Schools Minister David Laws said: ' You simply can't improve schools by starving schools of resources and burdening schools with the bureaucracy of additional testing. '
article_snippet.sent: the Tories are trying to paper over the cracks in the Tories scorched earth education plans that would undo the progress of the last five years.'