Residency cheaters welcome - the story of Excel Academy PCS
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Anonymous
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KIPP Webb campus has tons of MD plates at drop off and aftercare pick up. An administrator ask a group of us to leave because we were taking pictures of plate.
She herself said "some of our kids use their grandmothers address". She's just an idiot because if they don't live there they are breaking the law! |
Anonymous
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No, she is not an idiot. She is increasing enrollment at her school and getting more money. It's all a scam.
Makes you wonder how much of the 'increased enrollment' in DCPS are residency cheaters? |
Anonymous
| NP here - While I'd be as angry as the next person about residency cheaters, I have a fundamentally different view where it comes to children of school staff. If the staff have their kids there, it can help with quality education and treatment of students, as staff are then even more invested with a stake in the game beyond it just being a job. |
Anonymous
That is a tip to pass on to the Charter School Board for investigation. I doubt that turning in a license plate number is really that helpful of a tip, unless you are turning in a specific child's name along with it-- even then they may not investigate. |
Anonymous
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1. Residency cheaters are stealing money from kids in D.C. and their schools. This is true because if the DCPS budget pays for nonresident kids' education, then that deprives resident kids the benefit of that money, either individually in the form of a seat at a charter or DCPS school, or collectively in terms of improvements, materials, and new schools. If there were a way to estimate the overall number of cheaters, the loss would likely amount to a several million dollars per year.
2. This problem verges on criminal at charter schools and kids of charter employees, as the managers of charters are smart enough to understand the problem with accepting taxpayer money to pay for children of nonresident employees. If the charter wants to pay for those kids as an "operating expense," then fine, but it is fraudulent to receive direct payment from D.C. for purposes of funding a nonresident seat. |
Anonymous
I teach in DCPS as well. You're just a coward looking for excuses not to act, or you're at a very low performing or under - enrolled school with no waitlist. Because for most of the school's that residency cheats want in to, reporting the cheats has barely any effect on per pupil funding because plenty of actual DC residents are waiting to jump into those spots. |
Anonymous
X 100. Someone who knows what they're talking about! |
Anonymous
Who are you reporting to and have you ever asked them if they've followed up on specific cases? |
Anonymous
No one - not founders, not Principals, not teachers - have a right to send their kids to DC public schools if the kids don't live in DC. You can boost staff preference all you want... a cheater is a cheater, and the more popular the school, the more bad publicity and heat they'll get when shut out parents find out they're giving their staff whose kids don't live in DC an illegal exception to the residency rules. |
Anonymous
. You need the child's name. A plate doesn't prove anything. Now if the plates are registered to the parent on the registration paperwork, you have a case. |
Anonymous
As soon as you crack down, DOJ will come knocking to see if you are keeping out non-citizens. |
Anonymous
| If parents and tax payers care about this nonsense they need to bring it to policy makers. It is clear the current system of parents reporting on other parents to indifferent oversight is broken. Even my very very highly regarded charter school with an extremely long wait list appears to have MD residents. |
Anonymous
Administrators work lib hours so I'm guessing it was a choice of convenience. In some school districts children can get special permission to attend the same school where their parents work but not if it's out of state Anyway excel ' s scores have taken a nose dive http://www.greatschools.org/washington-dc/washington/602-Excel-Academy-PCS/ |
Anonymous
| I'm sure there are some residency cheaters, but I would bet that most of the MD plates are from car registration scofflaws who actually live in DC. A lot of DC residents who have off-street parking (DC has cracked down on non-DC plates frequently parked on the street in DC) use a relative's address in MD to register their cars to keep their insurance low. Many of my neighbors do this--it's not good, but they are actually DC residents. |
Anonymous
I doubt this. |