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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you cheater-haters want the OSSE rules on residency to read "the student gets thrown out of his or her public school immediately if it's determined that s/he hasn't slept at the address provided at least 50% of the nights in the last calendar year," why not campaign for that, make it happen?

I don't see a rule anything like that in any of the OSSE docs on residency, at least the ones on their web pages. Slamming parents who aren't breaking the current rules on thread after thread seems like a waste of time.
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Here are the full regulations as updated in March 2017 - they are lengthier than what OSSE puts on its website.

They set forth how residency is established in all sorts of scenarios including divorced, separated parents or never married parents, wards of the state, undocumented students and homeless students.

They are silent on the DC boundary rules -- only about proving DC residency.

http://dcregs.dc.gov/Gateway/RuleHome.aspx?RuleNumber=5-A5004[/quote]

Thanks for sharing. Since OSSE is in fact silent on the DC boundary rules, what leg do you residency vigilantes have to stand on legally?

You can bitch and moan about cheaters paying DC taxes and using rental units and relatives' addresses to enroll as violations of the spirit of the law without that getting you anywhere in particular.  I'd give it a rest.  [/quote]

So then there are no real boundaries? What is the point of the in boundary preference in the PK lottery?[/quote]

OSSE in DC is in charge of state level rules. So they set rules for how to prove someone lives in DC (see the forms used by charters and DCPS each year).

But DCPS is an LEA (local education agency). It makes policies, decides how many schools there will be and draws boundary lines.

DCPS enforces its boundary rules -- or can grant exceptions to them (e.g. allowing a student who begins in one school's feeder pattern to stay put). But those policies don't carry the same weight as a state regulation from OSSE.

If you are investigated for boundary cheating -- DCPS can send you back to your IB school. They can also send you back to your IB school for excessive tardiness or absences.

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