"Improvement in Queensland childrens' education is very difficult to find within the report, placing Queensland last of all the states across all year levels in the area of reading," said Dr Flegg.

"On all five measures, the results of Queensland's year three students were below the Australian average.

"Of particular concern also were our year five students who have not shown minimal improvements.  Which begs the question, what has the Bligh Government done since the release of the Masters Report in 2009?

"Under Labor, Education Queensland is bouncing along the bottom with the small states of Tasmania and South Australia, when we should be being compared and competing with the larger states of Victoria and New South Wales.

"Queensland parents and their children deserve better education standards than what they are getting from this tired, 20 year old Labor Government," he said.

Dr Flegg said the CanDo team believed Queensland students could be the best in Australia.

"Yet Labor has failed our youngest brains who are among the bottom performing states on all criteria," he said.

"Labor should be putting as much effort into improving our children's education as they do their spin doctors.

"The Bligh Government has today contradicted their earlier excuse – using comparisons in previous years to blame Queensland students for being younger and having spent less time in school.

"We are very proud of Queensland's teachers - whom the LNP believes do an outstanding job.  The NAPLAN results show our teachers need more support than what the Bligh Government has given them.

"The LNP will deliver a world class education system.  We understand the need to get the basics right in the early years.

"The CanDo team will strengthen Education Queensland and ensure our state's children will be 'CanDo' kids, once again," said Dr Flegg.