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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ellington’s school day is very longThe students have no little to no time for other extra curricular activities. You need to want to pursue art for a career or for a college major. It isn’t for anyone.

And as for the OOS kids - the percentage is capped at 10%. And they take DC kids first. [/quote]

That’s the official cap.  With residency fraud it could easily be another 20 to 25 percent who live quietly in Maryland but fraudulently go to Ellington.[/quote]

This.

A large portion of Ellington families = con artists.[/quote]

You know they just had the most invasive review of any DCPS school. These are high school students. The ones most likely to have divorced parents. You don’t h e to live in DC to go to a DC school. You only need one parent or legal caregiver who lives in a DC. You have nothing to base your assertions on. [/quote]

There may be some of that, but there are outright fraudster families at Ellington, as well.  DC and the school need to stop making excuses and offering possible rationalizations, and instead ferret out the residency fraud, promptly expel the students, sue the parents for back tuition, fees and interest and refer the parents for criminal prosecution.  If the parents are employed with the DC government, they should lose their jobs for not being suitable to hold positions of public trust.[/quote]

WTF do you think the AG's office has been doing for the last year and a half? The registrar was fired and OSSE is now overseeing the enrollment process. That said, you have to remember that all you need to enroll in a DC public school is one parent who lives in the city. That parent does not even need to be the custodial parent. There are loopholes in the residency regulations big enough to drive a truck through but these families are not cheating.

Honestly from a bang for the buck perspective, I think OSSE/the AG needs to dig into the 22 alleged non-residents parents whose children attend special education schools outside the city. Those cost at least $50,000 per student.

Just so we have some context -- for 2018-19 the audit found 152 unverified students (suspected OOS). 103 were enrolled in DCPS; 49 in charters

24 students attending non-public schools (22 DCPS; 2 charters)

51 OOS tuition-paying students (all DCPS) - 47 at Ellington; 1 at Oyster-Adams; 2 at Powell; 1 at Burroughs

https://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/page_content/attachments/2018-19%20School%20Year%20Annual%20Enrollment%20Audit%20Report%20Supplemental%20Tables.xlsx

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