Her immediate predecessor, Abdurrahman Wahid, tried to ease separatist pressures by introducing greater local autonomy and more local control over tax revenues from natural resources.
They wish to see a move away from centralized curriculum control to regional, provincial and even local control.
But local Labour councillors who control their local authorities also find themselves in the role of the employer.
Parks that mostly serve local visitors "should be realigned" to allow local control, while some with broader appeal could be managed differently, said the commission, whose reports are often considered by lawmakers.
After a summer of heavy casualties for British forces and amid some calls for troops to pull out of Afghanistan, Mr Brown said on Monday that he hoped control of some districts could be handed to local control from 2010.
"The federal criminal justice system is simply not equipped to handle local crimes, and this is the primary reason that tribes seek local control over these crimes that are plaguing our communities, " the letter said.
"This is not another ITV - all of our stations will be locally run with local news editors and producers and local editorial control, " he said.
Labour councillors pointed to the "foundation" status of three local secondary schools, which are free from local authority control and which cannot be required to take the extra pupils.
Jersey City, Paterson and Newark came under state control in a series of takeovers from 1989 to 1995, and local residents often complain that the state should have either improved the districts by now or return control to local authorities.
The Department for Communities and Local Government says it is "putting local communities themselves in control" of house building.
"This is an unprecedented loss of local control and we were not going to stand for it, " Ms. Crossin said.
At sundry times across disparate cultures, rare pockets of wealth and spurts of progress proliferated overwhelmingly under limited, local control.
But the dormant Commerce Clause runs smack into the principles of states' rights and local control that conservatives normally support.
Suddenly, the old issues of race and local control seemed less pressing, and co-operation between city and suburbs more appealing.
However, the plan is not popular in Washington, where detractors say national standards will diminish state and local control over schools.
National or local control to be established over our own waters through "zonal management, coastal management or in some other way".
To clear up the mess, it said, the regional government offices, Whitehall's provincial outposts, should be beefed up to exert more local control.
Under Cuomo, the department has taken much of the local control away from regional spokesmen and given it to the central office in Albany.
Other rulings, a 1995 case in Missouri and a 2001 case from North Carolina, clarify and ease the return of schools to local control.
This landmark Act increases accountability for federal agencies responsible for public safety in Indian Country and gives greater local control to Tribal law enforcement agencies.
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Meanwhile a separate proposal, this time from the government, to give greater local control over health care, was debated in the House of Commons this week.
They include the possibility of a "hypothecated" NHS tax, greater local control of public services and encouraging public service workers to set up co-operatives to provide services.
The lack of local control implied by that arrangement may prove controversial, as could another ULI recommendation, a new board to oversee the management of the city government's finances.
The federal government controls millions of acres in the West, and some folks believe the feds have reneged on a promise to turn over large swaths to local control once statehood was achieved.
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David McLetchie (Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party) said the only way to restore local control over fisheries was to vote Conservative at the next election as the General Election would precede any referendum.
We want to include 52 skills in one grade level curriculum, in a shorter school day, with local control over standards, with randomly qualified instructors, with varying materials and instructional approaches AND still use a standardized measure of competence.
Local rules don't allow foreign airlines to take management control of local carriers.
It was hoped that they would maintain closer links with local businesses and industries, and to this end they were kept under the control of elected local authorities instead of being given the chartered independence of the universities.
David Simmonds, representing the Local Government Association, cautioned that local authorities had diminishing amounts of direct control over schools - because of central government directives and targets and the shift towards academies.
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Academies, free schools and others outside of local authority control will not be affected.
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