LEAs and the private companies will try to make further progress on simplifying service contracts.
LEAs respond that they will have a surer feel for local priorities than bureaucrats in Whitehall.
LEAs, traditional bastions of bureaucratic left-wing power, giving schools more freedom to manage their own affairs.
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LEAs altogether, and they would be able to expand or contract according to demand.
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LEAs have been grouped into four regional consortia that have been charged with a responsibility to improve schools.
LEAs as part of multi-purpose local councils which provide social services, housing and other facilities, as well as education.
The national average among LEAs - excluding independent schools - was 71.4 points.
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Instead Charles Clarke acted in the best interest of the government, by swiftly passing the buck to the LEAs.
LEAs, and Mr Woodhead's people have gone to their task with a will.
LEAs and pay an increasing amount of central government money directly to schools.
In meetings with the Welsh government, LEAs complained about "protracted and ineffectual prosecutions" and asked ministers to consider fixed-penalty notices.
At school level it is even more complicated because LEAs accord different values to different schools and to different sets of pupils.
LEAs still spend too much of the increasing sum of money that central government has allocated for schools on their own administration.
In Wales, the budget statements from LEAs - showing how much they are spending on schools - will not be available until July.
LEAs and the service providers, which include severe penalties for failure.
LEAs, meanwhile, blamed the cumulative effect of increased teachers' wages, the Workload Agreement - which took some administrative tasks out of teachers' hands - and larger pension costs.
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LEAs were also perceived to be inefficient, profligate and bureaucratic.
LEAs have changed with the new political and economic climate.
"Our analysis of budget statements received from 85% of LEAs so far shows no evidence whatsoever to suggest that schools are not receiving the minimum guarantee, " a spokesperson said.
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The document will say that a pound spent on schools should mean a pound spent in schools, and argue that the role of LEAs should be scaled back, with money going direct to headteachers instead.
LEAs will have to show that they have increased spending per pupil from their existing budgets by at least 5% in the past year, or else Mr Blunkett's civil servants will do it for them.
She said that her party's plans to give schools more freedom from local education authorities would mean schools would receive their total budgets, instead of finding some of their money was being held back by LEAs .
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