21.   As president, I am going to rescue children from failure, and return excellence to American education through high standards, local control and strong accountability.

22.   As such, it may deliver a death blow to the already emaciated cause of truly restoring local control of education.

23.   At the same time we claim to be committed to local control of public schools, we subscribe to statewide curriculum standards.

24.   Before a large audience, he proclaimed his belief that education should be the province of local control rather than national control.

25.   Before it took over Jersey City and again when it took over Paterson, the state said it would return local control in five years.

26.   Boosters of the salmon plan say there will be both local control and accountability.

27.   A curious tack that was, coming from conservatives who typically balk whenever local control is threatened by sweeping regulation and state bureaucracy.

28.   A Joint Powers Board of the San Fernando Valley is set to submit a proposal for a separate bus transit zone for the Valley for greater local control.

29.   Across the country is a general push for more local control vs. national control.

30.   Albany must learn that it cannot mouth platitudes about local control while it continues to pre-empt decision-making whenever it suits its fancy.