They've garnered little credit for the income tax cuts they pushed for, or for the pupil premium.
The Pupil Premium is a significant amount of money going into schools up and down the country.
BBC: Schools could do better with pupil premium, says Ofsted
Angela Burns had been combing through the Cofnod to find evidence of Labour's distaste for the Pupil Premium.
The funding, known as the Pupil Premium, is paid directly to schools and follows pupils if they change schools.
The pupil premium is a key coalition policy, initiated by the Lib Dems.
There will also be more pressure on the use of pupil premium, which is paid to schools to support disadvantaged pupils.
This combined budget will then have to be distributed - with the added factor of a pupil premium for disadvantaged children.
From September schools will have to publish information on how they spent the pupil premium and detailing the impact of the spending.
Some schools struggle to show how they use pupil premium payments, aimed at raising the achievements of poor children, an Ofsted study says.
BBC: Schools could do better with pupil premium, says Ofsted
More than 80% of heads say the "pupil premium" has been absorbed by funding shortfalls, according to a National Association of Head Teachers survey.
Ms Teather will also tell Parliament on Monday how much the pupil premium will rise to in 2012-13 and what the overall pot will be worth.
But Ms Williams said the New Buy scheme had been "abandoned" whilst the "pupil premium" had not been given the funding increases that apply across the border in England.
And a study by Durham University does cast doubt on whether the pupil premium will make the kind of difference the Lib Dems are hoping for.
BBC: Pupil Premium's first year: Grade A or could do better?
As they believe that there is a link between deprivation and lower levels of literacy, they called on the government to implement a pupil premium to address this.
Other policies chalked up as successes included the party's commitment to get extra funding for the most disadvantaged school kids in England, an initiative known as the pupil premium.
Under the plans, there will be changes to school performance tables, Ofsted inspections and governance, and a "pupil premium" system will channel more money to the most deprived children.
The pupil premium has helped to a certain extent but as only around one in 10 students get free school meals, the funding hasn't been enough to compensate for the shortfall.
BBC: Pupil Premium's first year: Grade A or could do better?
Schools which are deemed to be not doing enough to close the attainment gap between rich and poor pupils will have to produce action plans showing how they will spend pupil premium funding.
The report also found that a "pupil premium" already exists in schools, with schools that have more than 30% of pupils on free school meals receiving 26% more per pupil in funding than others.
Russell Hobby of the National Association of Head Teachers said there had been no time to see how pupil premium funding was working, so it was too early to start planning for further changes.
In Westminster Hall there are a series of debates led by backbenchers - my eye was caught by Lib Dem former minister Sir Nick Harvey's, on free school meals and the pupil premium (11am - 11.30am).
Education Secretary Michael Gove said he was "protecting the frontline, handing power to teachers and introducing a pupil premium for the poorest" - but the "size of the deficit means we have had to make tough decisions".
If the pupils were to eat the meals not only would the schools get the Pupil Premium money but, she said they would be getting "more attentive pupils in the afternoon, pupils who are fit to learn".
The Ofsted report, which surveyed and inspected nearly 300 schools in total, found that half the schools thought the pupil premium was having a positive impact on raising achievement, but it said few could provide evidence to back this up.
The Department for Education said it was targeting reforms at children who needed most support - including increasing the number of academies, using the pupil premium to give schools money to spend on the poorest children, and "stripping away poor qualifications".
"Following my criticism of schools last year, it is clear more schools are now taking their responsibilities seriously when it comes to using the Pupil Premium money and our inspectors have found evidence of some very good practice in their recent visits, " said Sir Michael.
BBC: Schools could do better with pupil premium, says Ofsted
Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said the government had introduced the pupil premium at the same time as cutting school budgets elsewhere, so overall the amount of money in the front line in schools was exactly the same after the pupil premium.
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