School districts and county governments face cascading financial impacts as the ongoing state budget impasse starves them of funding, leaders said Monday. That’s the position school districts find themselves in because of this year’s late state budget.”The partisan deadlock between the Democratic-led House and the Republican-controlled Senate will soon force school districts and counties to borrow money to keep programs running or reduce services. CCAP Executive Director Kyle Kopko said that while it’s important for both parties to advocate for their priorities, every budget impasse pushes county governments closer to financial crisis. “We can’t normalize the practice of essentially missing a state budget deadline every other year,” he said, noting that 12 budgets in the last 25 have been late. Shereen Hess, an Indiana County commissioner and CCAP president, said county governments have not fully recovered from the 2015 budget impasse, when the Republican-controlled legislature and Democratic Gov.