(Photo by Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post)The District would raise taxes on sales, commercial property and ride-hailing services such as Lyft and Uber to increase funding for Metro under the 2019 budget Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) proposed Wednesday. [Bowser pledges better schools oversight in State of the District]The city has been flush with tax revenue as the economy booms. The sales tax would rise from 5.75 percent to 6 percent, smaller than the regional 1 percentage point sales tax increase that District leaders proposed as a permanent Metro funding source. “It’s too tight to provide the resources we need to provide a quality education.”Bowser is also proposing $300,000 to expedite case processing for residency fraud in D.C. public schools. But Bowser says the increased funding is because fraud is now investigated by the Office of the State Superintendent of Education instead of D.C. Public Schools.

Source: Washington Post March 21, 2018 20:57 UTC