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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a question that I haven't seen answered anywhere: When they did the audit of 100 students and found 50 were not DC residents, how were they selected? Did they pick 100 kids at random to audit, or did they pick the 100 most dubious records to start with?

It's a big problem either way, but if it was the former, holy moly. I don't see how the school can survive losing half its students. [/quote]

The audit guidelines published on OSSEs website say that the 2017 audit was to pull 20% of all students files at random (previous years they checked 10% at random).   [/quote]

So there's likely to be 250 out-of-District kids when the dust clears? I think that's the end of Ellington as we know it. [/quote]

Or a big tuition windfall to the city. [/quote]

If the city really wanted to get tough, they could sue for treble damages. That's $36,000 for each year attended. Kids currently at the school have been there an average of 2.5 years so that's an average of $90,000 per kid, or $23 million. Plus they could go after recent graduates for at least a couple of years.

I can't imagine the city getting that tough. But it's going to be a fiasco either way. Are kids going to have to leave mid-year if their parents don't pony up? Will seniors be able to graduate? I bet a lot of families aren't going to want to pay, so is the school going to be hollowed out? It's going to be messy. [/quote]

No one knows yet.

The Post published the results of the audit -- but it hasn't been PROVEN yet that these families aren't residents, just that their paperwork was bad (I assume many, ifnot most, are not).

But proving it is the AG's job.

When the AG went after the police officers, it took over a year to investigate and bring the case. [/quote]

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