Residency Fraud growing at Appletree Institute
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Anonymous
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All the news about residency fraud at Duke Ellington and other schools in DC seems to have been free advertising to PG county parents, who are now piling into Appletree Institute with PK3 and PK4 children. At dropoff and pickup, the Maryland plates outnumber local taxpaying families by roughly 11 to 1...and that's assuming that all non-motor-vehicle pickup is local.
District suckers aren't the only taxpayers left holding the bag. These children are ALL deemed 'economically disadvantaged' recipients of free food and subsidized care from federal $$$, those poor kids climbing into Cadillac SUVs from *gasp* last model year.. You might be thinking, well good, if these children are displacing poorer locals, my child will benefit as suburban parents might have taught basic manners or read a book to them before age 3. WRONG  . Welcome to the jungle that is your child's learning environment for his/her seminal years. The seats at better schools are all taken by other suburban kids and you must be content to have your child rot here or consider private options at an additional $13k+ yr.
Surely DC government officials might take some interest in an election year after which the public has seen so many stories of failures at DC's school including residency fraud at the highest levels? Nah.. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/stop-enrollment-fraud-dc-school-officials-are-often-the-ones-committing-it/2018/04/16/03b816c0-3ce7-11e8-8d53-eba0ed2371cc_story.html?utm_term=.83da957a9876 |
Anonymous
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Same as it ever was.
Put yo' name on a utility bill and present a 'lease' from gramma's studio in ward 8 for your 4 kids at 2 rivers and u Good ta GO baby! |
Anonymous
| Residency fraud is a huge issue in MCPS also. It’s tough to enforce and there is not enough staff to do so anyway. |
Anonymous
If you decide to have more than 2 people ion the organization to enforce, you show you are serious. Clearly DC is not serious. You need a real organization to do this. |
Anonymous
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This board sure has changed in the last year. I said this before the Ellington report came out and I was given 1 million excuses why Maryland tags don't mean a thing.
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Anonymous
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Please report suspected cheaters to OSSE OP -
47 DC schools had enough irregularities in their audit last year that a 100% check of all students' paperwork was triggered. Appletree was NOT on the list, but plenty of other schools, including some that DCUM rave about, were. See below: Academy of Hope Adult PCS Aiton Elementary School Anacostia High School Benjamin Banneker High School Breakthrough Montessori PCS Brent Elementary School C.W. Harris Elementary School Capitol Hill Montessori School @ Logan Cesar Chavez PCS for Public Policy - Capitol Hill Cesar Chavez PCS for Public Policy - Parkside Middle School Columbia Heights Education Campus DC Bilingual PCS Democracy Prep Congress Heights PCS Duke Ellington School of the Arts Excel Academy PCS Friendship PCS - Woodridge Middle School Garrison Elementary School Goodwill Excel Center PCS H.D. Cooke Elementary School H.D. Woodson High School Houston Elementary School IDEA PCS Ideal Academy PCS Ketcham Elementary School King Elementary School Kingsman Academy PCS Langdon Elementary School LAYC Career Academy PCS Lee Montessori PCS Malcolm X Elementary School @ Green Mann Elementary School Mary McLeod Bethune Day Academy PCS Miner Elementary School Patterson Elementary School Randle Highlands Elementary School Rocketship DC PCS - Rise Academy Roosevelt High School School Without Walls @ Francis-Stevens Seaton Elementary School SEED PCS of Washington DC Shepherd Elementary School Takoma Education Campus The Children's Guild PCS Walker-Jones Education Campus Washington Mathematics Science Technology PCHS Wheatley Education Campus Whittier Education Campus https://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/service_content/attachments/2017-18%20Schools%20with%20Full%20Reviews.pdf |
Anonymous
| I've said this before and I'll say it again, the problem is not the paper work. Parents are turning in the paper work that shows they are residents when they aren't. The problem is how easy it is to fool the system |
Anonymous
Here are the 49 schools where the deeper dive surfaced alleged non-residents - besides Ellington. Note some are special education schools outside the district where DC is paying the tuition because they can't support the child here adequately. https://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/service_content/attachments/2017-18%20Schools%20with%20Non%20Resident%20Findings.pdf |
Anonymous
+1 I'm hoping that they start to do more to cross-check information with other governments offices--the address you give for your school enrollment application should match the address on your tax returns, your driver's license, the address that the local benefits office has on file for you, etc. A discrepancy = an automatic audit. If there's a good reason why things don't match up--fine. If not, you're out. |
Anonymous
I’m a Shepherd parent and live in the neighborhood. It is an open secret at neighborhood parties that people use grandparents’ address in SP. There is a deep sense of entitlement to attend the school. I haven’t met anyone who I know is breaking the residency requirements but wouldn’t hesitate to report them. |
Anonymous
They need to cross-check and also require a home visit at the home! |
Anonymous
Shepherd had a high number of people accused of residency fraud in last year's audit report. It also had 5 seats available each for 3rd, 4th and 5th grade in the lottery's first round this year. Perhaps there is a connection. |
Anonymous
Still the Wapo article says there's a lot more staff dedicated to residency fraud there.
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Anonymous
This audit focused on actual residency fraud, right? Because I think that boundary fraud it’s actually much higher (although perhaps a lower priority). |
Anonymous
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The audit referenced in this thread was for residency fraud, which is an OSSE responsibility.
There have been no boundary fraud investigations. DCPS could run one if it chose to. |