Speaking to a fringe meeting at the party's annual gathering, he told delegates he would also use his speech to outline plans to get the best leaders into schools.
Gove added that the Conservative's education policies would focus on learning from other countries that have transformed their education systems by setting up schools outside of local authority control.
He said: "We need to start catching up with those other nations that have pulled ahead. If you look at those areas which have improved education most, one thing is striking. They have always ensured that the bureaucratic monoply responsible for education, particularly in areas of failure and poverty, has been broken."
He claimed that poor performing council run schools would improve once their neighbouring schools were transformed into new institutions, such as academies.
"The local authorities, and the unions who operate hand in glove with them, who have been responsible for a culture of low aspiration and low achievement, will find that new schools are established in their areas outside local authority control with a different way of working," he explained, "They will raise their game, because a rising tide lifts all boats".
