"The government needs to commit to fund the creation of school places and hand councils the powers to open new schools, for both primary and secondary-age pupils, before time runs out.
On the one hand councils like Nottingham City Council are trying to calmly weather the storm.
David Simmonds, chairman of the LGA's children and young people board, said: "We are calling on the government to commit to funding the creation of school places and hand councils the powers to open new schools, for both primary and secondary-age pupils, before time runs out".
But at a City Council budget hearing today, as the chancellor continued to make the argument that the state was tying the city's hands, council members reacted with the same skepticism as those in Albany have.
Council attendance was determined by locality, sex, age, and the specific question at hand; each council had its own protocol and devices for gaining consensus, which was the primary mode of decision making.
On the other hand, some council members say they want to expand the ruling group.
As Britain's youth jobs crisis deepens, it's time for ministers to hand local council leaders the tools they need to make a difference.
Yet the other day I heard a backbench MP attribute "widespread" school underperformance to the dead hand of council control, a charge fast becoming as credible as blaming the Luftwaffe for our housing shortage.
Our reforms strengthen the hand of councils".
