The trust fund would help channel Federal money into public schools, but leave the spending decisions with states and local districts.

Every spending decision should ensure more power is handed to local people, they wrote.

Is the difference between the challengeability of central and local government spending decisions justified?

The final spending decisions would still be the Governor's.

The second goal was 'to achieve greater stability in public spending decisions'.

But this time, many end-of-the-quarter spending decisions were put off.

Congress and the president will face difficult spending decisions.

Republicans aim to show that local spending decisions are made independently of state policies.

Republican leaders in Congress moved today to put off difficult spending decisions until next year, when they will have control of both houses.

The hard work of making specific spending decisions still awaits Congress.