A day like today is the perfect day to gather info on residency cheats

[Anonymous]

Residency cheating reporting is a worthy hobby. Carry on, OP,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there concrete rules to ensure DC residents get preference before opening up to MD residents?

What are these "rules" you speak of? This is Ellington. They answer to nobody.

Apparently that's true. They paid a former principal a salary of almost $300K a year, more than twice what the highest paid DC principals get and even twice what assistant school superintendents get in the largest school system in the country (LA). This was established by the fact that when the principal left Ellington to accept a system wide job in LA (over 700,000 students), he accepted a salary that was half what Ellington was paying him. At the same time that the Ellington board was spending like drunken sailors on the former principal, the school was cutting full time faculty to part time status, citing "budget pressures." Ellington's board is basically self-perpetuating. The cozy board nominates and elects its own. Despite the fact that DCPS -- the DC taxpayers -- pay over 70% of the school's operating budget and fund almost all of the cost of the school's $110 M + renovation, neither the mayor nor the chancellor has any right to appoint any board members. There is little transparency and no accountability to DC. So, for example, the school can apparently decide on its own to use DC taxpayer money to subsidize an arts education for a substantial number of Maryland students (while other DC students can't get into Ellington).

As the PP said, Ellington seems to answer to nobody.