31.   Allow local control of where hog farms can be built.Iowa county officials had that power until legislators removed it last year, Mr. Braun said.

32.   Bush countered that he believed in local control of the public schools.

33.   Bush emphasized that he favors local control of schools but also would hold states accountable for improving student achievement.

34.   Bush talked more about local control of schools, Gore about how he would use federal funds to help reduce class size.

35.   Bush, who also advocates local control of schools, says he wants to expand the successful federal Head Start preschool program.

36.   Bush promotes local control of decision-making.

37.   But Harold Washington, who was mayor then, bitterly opposed the plan and kept the agency under local control.

38.   But her union, she said, also generally favors more local control of schools.

39.   But his proposal became bogged down in Congress, which, among other concerns, has feared an erosion of local control over schools.

40.   But interviews on file at the LBJ Library indicate Johnson had to fend off concerns about loss of local control in several education measures.