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Data: Property Tax Report Cards for School Districts

School budgets are going up and student enrollment is going down.  Those are the general trends visible after looking at the information schools have made available about their proposed budgets for 2010-11.  Click to compare your district’s information with the rest of the county’s school districts. […]

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Pension Rate To Rise In 2011, Giving Local Budgets Much More Trouble

The share that local governments, and thus, taxpayers, pay into the retirement funds of their public employees is going up sharply. The retirement fund used my most state-system retirees will require local governments to pay 11.9% of the tab in 2011, up from 7.4% for 2010. And the fund for police and fire retirees will require an even bigger contribution, 18.2%, from 15.1% in 2010. […]