The National Party is highlighting what it calls an "education disaster" in the results of a trial run of new NCEA literacy and numeracy tests.
While there was an initial focus on the poor overall results, National Party education spokesperson Erica Stanford is even more concerned by the marks for students from low income households.
Just two percent of students at decile one schools passed the writing tests and 10 percent passed the numeracy standard.
Stanford spoke to Corin Dann.
