Local education authorities as "commissioner and quality assurers" of education services, not the direct providers.
The BBC relies on schools and local education authorities to notify it of closures.
"PAT favours a national funding formula to cut out basic inequalities between local education authorities, " she said.
Not surprisingly, the Conservatives are no better disposed to the Local Education Authorities than the government is.
"It's right and proper that local education authorities have all the powers to decide these things, " he said.
Nine local education authorities (LEA) had higher rates, with the worst at 2.7%.
The education minister stressed that very few local education authorities were performing well.
Academies are non-fee paying, non-selective state schools, which operate outside the control of local education authorities and have private sponsors.
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Red Balloon's fees are paid by the local education authorities - primarily Cambridgeshire and Suffolk - which refer children to it.
The changes will allow opted-out academies to keep the percentage of funding that otherwise would have been held by local education authorities.
But what about the organisations that run schools - local education authorities?
The NUT recently surveyed members employed directly by local education authorities and found that some 60% worked in areas where redundancies were proposed.
Official guidance says the decision whether to have a uniform, and if so what sort, is down to schools and local education authorities.
The latest intervention in Anglesey gives the minister an opportunity to remind local education authorities that he still has his eye on them.
The bill included adaptations and additions that local education authorities would need to make to their schools to comply with disability access laws.
Graham Lane, Labour education chairman of the Local Government Association, said talks with Local Education Authorities would only happen if teachers were not on strike.
He will also order all local education authorities in England and Wales to provide progress reports outlining what they are doing to tackle boys' underachievement.
Children with behavioural problems were placed there by local education authorities.
The most recent figures from the assembly and the Department of Education show Welsh local education authorities withhold more money from schools than authorities in England.
As a self-declared "staunch supporter" of the teaching profession and local education authorities - but opponent of selection - Mr Willis had been moderately supportive of Labour policies.
She has been developing her own indicators, working with schools and local education authorities, using such things as entitlement to free school meals and families' take-up of grants for school uniforms.
Martin Gocke, assistant director of education and libraries at Bracknell said the delay was necessary because of faults with the computer system it used to exchange information with other local education authorities.
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Mr Coaker proposed an amendment to the bill ensuring that parents and local education authorities would be consulted before capital money was used to build free schools, which he branded an "experiment".
"I think it's evident that the fragmentation of local government in the 1990s into 22 local education authorities was destructive and has not helped build a strong education in Wales, " said Mr Andrews.
David Blunkett, the education secretary, has horrified local education authorities by saying that he is prepared to allow private firms to take over their work if they fail to come up to scratch.
Additional funding is also being made available so that three quarters of local education authorities can be involved in the Welsh Network of Health School Schemes by March 2008 and all by March 2010.
In education, while spending allocations are due to rise by nearly 5% a year, David Blunkett, the education secretary is looking at ways to allocate money directly to schools, rather than sending it through local education authorities.
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 .
But critics are worried that possible changes to "loosen up" the rules on providing for special needs pupils, which would mean local education authorities would not be required to be precise about how many hours of support pupils would receive, will mean less help for those who need it.
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