"The state and localities need to improve their management and oversight of special-education providers".
But there are still so many things that states and localities need to worry about".
States and localities need time to set up effective jobs programs before school lets out.
In the short term, states and localities need to give as much guidance as they can to help voters.
States and localities need to draw up better guidelines for how ballots are designed and clearer instructions to voters.
States and localities need to act to require that whenever property changes hands (even after foreclosure), its thermal standards should be improved.
States and localities need to be able to ensure that the software they get from voting machine manufacturers is identical to the software that has been tested and certified.
To control recidivism, and thus have a shot at controlling prison crowding and costs, the states and localities need to develop comprehensive programs that help former inmates find jobs, housing, training, drug treatment and mental health care.
The Labour review says: "We also need a new generation of Joseph Chamberlains – strong, far-sighted city and civic leaders, with bold, credible plans, for the amenities and infrastructure their localities need, working in close partnership with business and social leaders, to make their towns and cities magnets of new and better jobs.
As with the building of economically unjustified sports stadiums, so with the propping up of state education systems without reforming the basic systems of teaching or school management: Only budget crises and other emergencies create the incentives that states and localities need to concentrate their minds on innovation, Mr. DeHaven said.
However, project sustainability, specific to localities, needs to be temporally verified for indirect impacts and socio-economic and environmental equality, with particular focus on gender issues and under-privileged groups.
