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"Faced with declining tax revenues, state and local governments are cutting" education budgets nationwide, Ms. Weingarten said in a speech to education policy makers in Washington.
The 2007-2009 recession and the slow recovery, along with housing foreclosures, caused a big drop in state and local revenues; state revenues remain an estimated 11 percent below what they were before the recession.
Without new revenues, state and local officials and Wall Street analysts said, these areas may have to make deep cuts in spending on schools, police and fire departments and other services.
New Jersey could be facing a budget shortfall as high as $2.4 billion for the current fiscal year because of a steep falloff in revenues, state officials said yesterday.
As he put it: "Notwithstanding some recent improvement in tax revenues, state and local governments still face tight budget situations and continue to cut real spending and employment".
The Norwegian municipalities get their income from tax revenues, state transfers and fee income from users.
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As Albany has shared less revenue, state mandates have driven local spending increases.
The school districts are simultaneously losing money from both their main sources of revenue: state financing and revenue from local property taxes.
The districts have no choice, they say, because their usual sources of revenue — state money and local property taxes — have been hit hard by the recession.
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