The funding is in the tentative state budget expected to gain final legislative approval in the Assembly later this week.
Shortly after he took office in 2010, Mr. Christie froze hundreds of millions of dollars in state funding to help close a midyear budget gap, then made sweeping cuts of up to 5% of districts' budgets in his 2010-11 budget, as federal stimulus funding ran out.
The updated budget plans state that the council will end or reduce funding for seven of its 18 libraries in June.
They are asking for more laws than Cuomo has offered in his state budget proposal to cut labor costs, pension costs and more funding.
State budget crunches led to renewed debates about fair and appropriate levels of school funding.
At the University of Virginia, state funding has dropped to 5.6% of the total budget this year from 26.2% in 1990.
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California's 33 prisons and associated camps therefore bear no small responsibility for the state's recurring budget crises, and the resultant crunch on school and university funding.
Boyd says she conceived of Schoola when reading about the devastating tax shortfalls and concomitant budget cuts that dropped public school funding by 21% in her home state of California (not to mention Arizona, Hawaii, and South Carolina too).
State funding now accounts for less than 14% of the school's educational budget, down from as much as 62% in 1970-71.
In return, he asked the Republicans to agree to a tax increase for the wealthier citizens of the state to make up the remainder of the funding required to close most of the gap in the budget.
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The anger at the local level may be understandable, but the pressure on lawmakers in Sacramento to agree on a budget had been cranking up in recent weeks, and the state was running out of options for short-term funding.
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