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The council's education chiefs have said that pupils deserve a "fantastic education system" while teachers "deserve to be able to work in their jobs without intimidation".
The allegations detailed in the Trojan Horse letter focus on the Park View Educational Trust, which runs three schools in the city - all of which have been subjected to snap Ofsted inspections in recent weeks.
Among further claims which have since come to light, one former anonymous staff member at Park View Academy in Alum Rock alleged a colleague had in an assembly praised the firebrand al-Qaida-linked Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki - he was killed by a US drone strike in Yemen in 2011.
The school trustees have firmly denied all the claims, branding the allegations "a witch-hunt", while pointing to very good academic results among its pupils.
All of the city's MPs recently wrote a letter to Mr Gove calling for a full inquiry into the issues to settle the matter.
A DfE spokesperson said its investigation was continuing and it would be inappropriate to comment further.
Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said schools should not be allowed to become "silos of segregation", as he backed the DfE's probe.
At a press conference in Westminster he said: "I am very concerned whenever I hear allegations that schools, funded by the taxpayer, become vehicles for the propagation of particular ideologies which divide young children and pupils off from other people in society.
He added: "The best faith schools, partly because they are conscious of their own faith, reach out to other faiths, reach out to other schools in the local community, teach about other faiths, rather than allowing them to become silos of segregations."
He said his comments were not "directed at any one faith", but said schools which "turn inwards" needed to be investigated.
The allegations detailed in the Trojan Horse letter focus on the Park View Educational Trust, which runs three schools in the city - all of which have been subjected to snap Ofsted inspections in recent weeks.
Among further claims which have since come to light, one former anonymous staff member at Park View Academy in Alum Rock alleged a colleague had in an assembly praised the firebrand al-Qaida-linked Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki - he was killed by a US drone strike in Yemen in 2011.
The school trustees have firmly denied all the claims, branding the allegations "a witch-hunt", while pointing to very good academic results among its pupils.
All of the city's MPs recently wrote a letter to Mr Gove calling for a full inquiry into the issues to settle the matter.
A DfE spokesperson said its investigation was continuing and it would be inappropriate to comment further.
Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said schools should not be allowed to become "silos of segregation", as he backed the DfE's probe.
At a press conference in Westminster he said: "I am very concerned whenever I hear allegations that schools, funded by the taxpayer, become vehicles for the propagation of particular ideologies which divide young children and pupils off from other people in society.
He added: "The best faith schools, partly because they are conscious of their own faith, reach out to other faiths, reach out to other schools in the local community, teach about other faiths, rather than allowing them to become silos of segregations."
He said his comments were not "directed at any one faith", but said schools which "turn inwards" needed to be investigated.
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