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Nick Clegg will promise to set up a "champions league" of head teachers to be brought in to sort out failing schools in England in a speech later.
The deputy prime minister will say experienced staff can join a "pool of top talent" which will be "ready to move" at short notice.
He will also call for free schools to be compelled to employ only professionally qualified teachers.
This will ensure more consistent standards, Mr Clegg will add.
He is expected to announce that, from September next year, the government will create a "programme to get outstanding leaders into the schools that need them the most".
'Differences'
The team will be made up of head teachers and deputy heads, with recruitment beginning soon, he will say.
Parts of the Liberal Democrat leader's speech have been heavily trailed in the media for several days, particularly his expression of differences with the Conservatives over free schools, which are state-funded but autonomous.
In it he will acknowledge "differences of opinion, some strongly held", stating that his party wants all schools to follow the national curriculum, guarantee food standards and employ only qualified teachers.
He will say that this "view has spark quite a bit of excitement this week - and criticism", but add that he wants parents to make their educational choices "safe in the knowledge that there are certain safeguards".
Downing Street has taken issue with the Lib Dem position on free schools, saying that, as recently as last week, Lib Dem schools minister David Laws had said he was "100% behind" the policy.
But, in his speech, Mr Clegg will say: "I am totally unapologetic that the Liberal Democrats have our own ideas about how we do that."
Labour's shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said: "Nick Clegg will be judged on what he does, not what he says. Whatever he says about free schools today, the truth is this divisive policy is his - enacted by his Tory-led government because of his help and support."
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