Talk:Local education authorities in England and Wales

message: Should there be a note in here to reflect the government's policy of referring to LEAs as Local Authorities now (see Education & Inspections Bill 2006) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.43.216.156 (talk • contribs) 03:36, 13 April 2006. 
LEA is the term used in the United States, as well.  There should probably be a separate article for the American version.
96.26.223.26 (talk) 05:33, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Note

message: What do people think about the list of LEAs I've added to the article? (only for England I'm afriad) I think they are a good addition as since LEAs are made up of counties, metropolitan boroughs and unitary authorities, it is hard to find a complete list of all the actualy areas which have LEAs. I think the list here will be informative to people as to which of the different types of sub-divisions in their area and different parts of the coutnry are LEAs and which are not. Please feel free to comment on this if you feel the lsit shouldn't be included so we can discuss why/why not. Evil Eye 18:55, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: List of LEAs

message: Why are individual departments given and wikilinked here? Some councils publicise the names of their departments and others deliberately obscure this information so all services appear to come under the one council "brand". Furthermore, the departments are often merging and changing names. I don't think it is a good idea to link/have articles for each council department, especially as we have very few articles on the councils themselves. MRSC 23:37, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: We have articles on United States school districts - e.g. New York City Department of Education WhisperToMe 02:01, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems New York City Department of Education is roughly analogous to the Inner London Education Authority. The individual education departments of local authorities lack this significance. MRSC 06:25, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  But the ILEA doesn't exist anymore (though the article should be kept) WhisperToMe 22:17, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah yes, that is exactly the point. ILEA was the only instance of a distinct public body that was an LEA and is the only case that is broadly comparable with the US. The situation now is that individual departments within district councils are responsible. For the purposes of an encyclopedia, we do not need to create articles like Education Department of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The departments we are talking about do not operate in isolation from the rest of the council and will share floor space with other council departments. This is akin to creating Kensington and Chelsea parks service, Kensington and Chelsea press office, Kensington and Chelsea environmental services etc. We don't even have a Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council (i.e the council, not the district) yet (or articles for most councils in the UK) so articles about individual (often quasi) departments should really not be happening now. MRSC • Talk 22:41, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

text: And don't American school boards tend to be directly elected?  Whereas UK LEAs are subcomponents of an otherwise elected body.  Morwen - Talk 08:16, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Some U.S. school boards are operated by cities. Others are parts of counties. Others are only directly administered by the state. WhisperToMe 22:17, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Islington and Southwark

message: Is there anywhere that shows the overall political control of these authorities.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.253.135.119 (talk) 16:12, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Political control