article_snippet.sent: Clegg Clegg said control of the Department for Education would be a key demand of any new power-sharing deal .
article_snippet.sent: Clegg said control of the Department for Education would be a key demand of any new power-sharing deal.
article_snippet.sent: Today Clegg signalled that Clegg has Clegg sights set on the Department for Education, which runs schools in England.
article_snippet.sent: Campaigning in Cornwall, Clegg announced plans for an independent education standards watchdog to restrict ministers' ability to interfere with the contents of the national curriculum and exams.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Clegg said Mr Clegg wanted to 'get politics out of the classroom'.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Clegg said Mr Clegg would 'turn a page on the Gove-esque centralising interference in what teachers teach in the classroom'.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Clegg said: 'We are setting out ideas and amplifying ideas today which will take out a lot of the political interference which has dogged the day-to-day life of teachers far too much - from the micromanagement of the history curriculum by Mr Gove through to excessive day-to-day workload.'
article_snippet.sent: Mr Clegg also promised to restore morale in the teaching profession. '
article_snippet.sent: I get very distressed when I hear how teachers feel that teachers have been somewhat put upon in recent years,' Mr Clegg said, promising to 'celebrate not denigrate the great, noble profession'.
highlights_snippet.sent: But Clegg reveals plan to demand control of major public policy area .
  