School residency cheaters investigated

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there really evidence that it's poor people from MD stealing? Because that hasn't been my experience.

It doesn't look like any of the people featured in the Daily Caller articles are "poor." They have jobs, some in the public sector, have homes, and cars. Heck the KIPP PTA mom has a home and a rental property.

I checked the tax records and there's no property owned by someone with her name in DC. I guess it could be under her maiden name?

The only thing she didn't talk about forthrightly -- according to the article -- was her rental property. It doesn't exist.

[Anonymous]

The problem will be fixed when we have a Mayor interested in making sure the Chancellor pushes to fix the problem. Because there has been little to no action on this subject, we can infer the Mayor does not believe her constituents would be happy if she enforced the law.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The problem will be fixed when we have a Mayor interested in making sure the Chancellor pushes to fix the problem. Because there has been little to no action on this subject, we can infer the Mayor does not believe her constituents would be happy if she enforced the law.

What mayor has ever taken this issue on? You don't hear anyone on the council talking about this very much either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even if DC cracks down on residency cheaters down in a big way (very very unlikely), the overall problem will persist unless PG County introduces both free universal PreK3 AND PreK4.

If we have such crossover with PG that 40% of some schools have kids that either live there or have complicated family situations where they live there part time, maybe DC should just put it above board, allow PG county residents with some DC connection to apply, and get reimbursement from the county instead of individuals.

Yup! Get reimbursement from the MD gov. Give commuting parents the convenience. However, that still does not address the lottery crabs in a barrel aspect of getting coveted school slots.

[Anonymous]

2015 article....

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/DC-Attorney-General-Suing-Two-Police-Officers-for-Claiming-False-DC-Residency-and-Sending-Their-Children-to-School-For-Free-307056701.html

"Two D.C. police officers are being sued for more than $224,000 by the Attorney General on charges they lied about where they live in order to send their children to public schools in Northwest D.C."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To me, the institutional failure and obvious lack of interest by DCPS in dealing with this problem seems like the problem to attack.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/06/d-c-not-interested-in-stopping-maryland-fraudsters-stealing-its-schools/

Arguing about this on a message board is not productive. So, given that OSSE seems to routinely ignore the tips that parents submit, what remedies are available to parents? Is a class action lawsuit a possibility? How do such things work?

Look in the comments in this article that talks about changes happening when parents threatened a class action law suit for failure to enforce. Maybe there is some breach of fiduciary duty to the local parents?
http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/district-cracks-down-on-high-school-transfers/article_3fc9f2ee-a235-11e1-9294-0019bb2963f4.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To me, the institutional failure and obvious lack of interest by DCPS in dealing with this problem seems like the problem to attack.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/06/d-c-not-interested-in-stopping-maryland-fraudsters-stealing-its-schools/

Arguing about this on a message board is not productive. So, given that OSSE seems to routinely ignore the tips that parents submit, what remedies are available to parents? Is a class action lawsuit a possibility? How do such things work?

Look in the comments in this article that talks about changes happening when parents threatened a class action law suit for failure to enforce. Maybe there is some breach of fiduciary duty to the local parents?
http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/district-cracks-down-on-high-school-transfers/article_3fc9f2ee-a235-11e1-9294-0019bb2963f4.html

Just as long as a zeal for residency fraud does not harm homeless students: http://www.publicjustice.org/news/press/114

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem will be fixed when we have a Mayor interested in making sure the Chancellor pushes to fix the problem. Because there has been little to no action on this subject, we can infer the Mayor does not believe her constituents would be happy if she enforced the law.

What mayor has ever taken this issue on? You don't hear anyone on the council talking about this very much either.

Yes. I assume you agree with PP on this matter with respect to constituents' interests.

[Anonymous]

There are class action law suits based on state constitutional language requiring "adequate" education and the number of charter schools....but such language does not exist in D.C.

http://www.ecs.org/ec-content/uploads/2016-Constitutional-obligations-for-public-education-1.pdf

"Because Washington, D.C., is not a state, it uses the United States Constitution as its constitution. However,
there is no mention of public education in the United States Constitution. The District of Columbia Home Rule
Act most closely resembles a constitution, but there also is no mention of public education in the act. Therefore,
unlike all 50 of the states, there is no constitutional foundation for public education in Washington, D.C."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:2015 article....

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/DC-Attorney-General-Suing-Two-Police-Officers-for-Claiming-False-DC-Residency-and-Sending-Their-Children-to-School-For-Free-307056701.html

"Two D.C. police officers are being sued for more than $224,000 by the Attorney General on charges they lied about where they live in order to send their children to public schools in Northwest D.C."

In DC even the cops are not beyond cheating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem will be fixed when we have a Mayor interested in making sure the Chancellor pushes to fix the problem. Because there has been little to no action on this subject, we can infer the Mayor does not believe her constituents would be happy if she enforced the law.

What mayor has ever taken this issue on? You don't hear anyone on the council talking about this very much either.

Yes. I assume you agree with PP on this matter with respect to constituents' interests.

Which constituents? Ward 9?? Otherwise known as the "Barr.y Base"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To me, the institutional failure and obvious lack of interest by DCPS in dealing with this problem seems like the problem to attack.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/06/d-c-not-interested-in-stopping-maryland-fraudsters-stealing-its-schools/

Arguing about this on a message board is not productive. So, given that OSSE seems to routinely ignore the tips that parents submit, what remedies are available to parents? Is a class action lawsuit a possibility? How do such things work?

Look in the comments in this article that talks about changes happening when parents threatened a class action law suit for failure to enforce. Maybe there is some breach of fiduciary duty to the local parents?
http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/district-cracks-down-on-high-school-transfers/article_3fc9f2ee-a235-11e1-9294-0019bb2963f4.html

Just as long as a zeal for residency fraud does not harm homeless students: http://www.publicjustice.org/news/press/114

Don't you know they homeless students arrive for school in an Escalade?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem will be fixed when we have a Mayor interested in making sure the Chancellor pushes to fix the problem. Because there has been little to no action on this subject, we can infer the Mayor does not believe her constituents would be happy if she enforced the law.

What mayor has ever taken this issue on? You don't hear anyone on the council talking about this very much either.

Yes. I assume you agree with PP on this matter with respect to constituents' interests.

Which constituents? Ward 9?? Otherwise known as the "Barr.y Base"

Nope. The majority of actual D.C. voters. Clearly, hardly anyone but a minority of voters in DC give two shizz about cheaters from Ward 9. Many posters on this beard seem to take jeering pleasure from it, in fact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To me, the institutional failure and obvious lack of interest by DCPS in dealing with this problem seems like the problem to attack.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/06/d-c-not-interested-in-stopping-maryland-fraudsters-stealing-its-schools/

Arguing about this on a message board is not productive. So, given that OSSE seems to routinely ignore the tips that parents submit, what remedies are available to parents? Is a class action lawsuit a possibility? How do such things work?

Look in the comments in this article that talks about changes happening when parents threatened a class action law suit for failure to enforce. Maybe there is some breach of fiduciary duty to the local parents?
http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/district-cracks-down-on-high-school-transfers/article_3fc9f2ee-a235-11e1-9294-0019bb2963f4.html

that's freakin ridiculous. the govt does not owe a fiduciary duty to anyone.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem will be fixed when we have a Mayor interested in making sure the Chancellor pushes to fix the problem. Because there has been little to no action on this subject, we can infer the Mayor does not believe her constituents would be happy if she enforced the law.[/quote]


What mayor has ever taken this issue on? You don't hear anyone on the council talking about this very much either. [/quote]


Yes. I assume you agree with PP on this matter with respect to constituents' interests.[/quote]

Which constituents? Ward 9?? Otherwise known as the "Barr.y Base"[/quote]

Nope. The majority of actual D.C. voters. Clearly, hardly anyone but a minority of voters in DC give two shizz about cheaters from Ward 9. Many posters on this beard seem to take jeering pleasure from it, in fact.[/quote]

There does seem to be acceptance if not outright approval of such fraud. Perceived as liberating free stuff from The Man perhaps. Of course, those hurt the most by Ward 9 residency fraud are poorer DC kids without connections to manipulate the system like the Ward 9 government employee crowd. These are the kids who lose out on lottery spots in a better school or whose schools are lean on library books because fraudsters are scamming school spots and resources in DC.