SNP veteran was handed the schools brief shortly after Nicola Sturgeon won the 2016 Holyrood election and has remained in post since - despite facing a motion of no confidence from opposition MSPs in August last year.
The First Minister is expected to unveil her new ministerial team this week after winning a second successive election earlier this month.
Labour education spokesman Michael Marra today insisted, "we can only hope a new minister can stop the rot". The new MSP shared a list of what his party claims is a definitive list of education failures overseen by Swinney in his time in office.Top of the pile is the 2020 exams fiasco which saw thousands of pupils marked down in final assessments after the SQA brought in an algorithm to.
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