All full price pricing policies for school meals are matters of local discretion.

Now we have added curriculum and testing to the functions where local discretion can't be trusted.

Days in categories 5 and 6 may be kept according to diocesan or local discretion.

But school districts vary on what teachers are required to teach, he said, adding, "There's a lot of local discretion in this."

The government has moved beyond exhortation to compulsion and thus removed yet another strand of local discretion.

Where the implementation of such strategic highs is in question the centre will limit the action space around interpretability and local discretion.

Case studies also reveal evidence of local discretion in other respects.

Children had to attend between the ages of 5 and 10 though with some local discretion such as early leaving in agricultural areas.

We have increased the amount of local discretion on spending by removing ring-fences on some grants.

"But you really have to balance what is local discretion and what services the state requires localities to buy."