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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ellington parent here. OSSE has already cleared 75 families of wrongdoing. Surprise, surprise. DC got it wrong.

I'm sure there will be some valid cases but the fact is, the a ton of people's lives were disrupted.

Proud to say our school is weathering it and serving the lids better than any school I've yet encountered. It's a Haven for my creative, hard-working kid and hundreds of others.[/quote]

And is this audit doing an extra level of checking or is the usual low bar to prove residency?  If the latter I would not presume there are still not residency cheaters among the cleared.

Also didn't the number of families caught up in last springs audit only represent a portion of the school?

Glad that Ellington is a haven but it needs to be a haven for students who legally reside in DC or those paying the grossly low tuition rate for non DC residents.[/quote]

Last year during the 'count day' audit, OSSE's auditors found enough irregularities that they took all 570 enrollment paperwork files (every student's).

They supposedly went through everything more deeply, including questioning documentation, searching other docs, and determined that 160 were non-residents. They received the letters from OSSE and names went to the AG.

Many of these families disputed the findings, the AG has put their work on hold while a judge told OSSE to give families time to appeal.

This parent group is saying that 75 families have been told by OSSE that its finding that they were non-residents was false.

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