Education watchdog Ofsted is set to accuse some English local authorities of failing to do enough to improve under-performing schools.
A league table will be published ranking councils according to inspectors' assessments of schools.
Chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw says the gap in standards between authorities facing similar challenges is too wide.
Ofsted's annual report is set to be published later on Tuesday.
The report is expected to switch the focus from the weaknesses of individual schools to problems across local authorities.
League tableSir Michael will say that schools in England are improving - with the progress attributed to better teaching and stronger leadership.
But he will also highlight the gap between the best performing local authorities and those which still have too many failing schools.
End Quote Sir Michael Wilshaw Ofsted chief inspectorThere are differences between local authorities with similar demographics"
"There are differences between local authorities with similar demographics," Sir Michael told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"We'll be looking very carefully at what's happening in those local authorities with the same sort of population, with similar levels of deprivation, similar numbers of children on free school meals, where one particular local authority does extremely well and another one doesn't."
Ofsted will show these differences by ranking councils in terms of the positive and negative inspection judgements made about schools in their areas, including academies which are outside of local authority control.
That will increase pressure on local authorities at the bottom of the table.
Teachers' unions also warn that this is likely to be used by the government in a further push for schools to leave local authorities and become academies.
"Naming and shaming... would certainly suit the education department to push all local authorities into the position of converting schools to academies," said Christine Blower, leader of the National Union of Teachers.
David Simmonds, representing the Local Government Association, cautioned that local authorities had diminishing amounts of direct control over schools - because of central government directives and targets and the shift towards academies.
As such local accountability for schools was now more complex for parents, he argued.
But the education department says that academy status has proved to be a way of improving schools.
"We will root out under-performance wherever we find it and drive up standards so that every pupil is able to reach their full potential," said a Department for Education spokesperson.
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