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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You do actually have to live in the apartment you rent though. if you own a place elsewhere, you should stop the homestead exemption on it. and you should change your voter registration. [/quote]

To clarify, you have to make it look like you actually live in the apt you rent.  You can sublet it easily enough, preferably to relatives or friends. Yes, stop the homestead exemption elsewhere and change voter registration to the apartment's address. Also change your drivers license and file income tax from the apt address as soon as you can. As long as you can pick up mail at the apt. regularly, things work out. Getting audited is really rare and not a threat if you have the residency docs and tax returns. We know families in Ward 6 who've done this for HS at J-R rather than move from the DC.  These are people who didn't get into an acceptable DC public high school, couldn't afford private and hit the wall with BASIS for kids who hated their MS.[/quote]

That is all unnecessary. You need to do the following things under DCPS policy: (1) verify you live IB when you enroll; (2) actually attend the school for some point in time; (3) notify the school when you move OOB.

[quote]Where a PK-12 student [b]has been attending[/b] an in-boundary school and then moves out of boundary while remaining in the District of Columbia, the student has the right to attend their new in-boundary school. The student may also continue to attend the current school through the end of the school’s terminal grade. All families are[b] required to notify the school of any change of residence within three (3) school days[/b] of such change.[/quote]

The easiest way to verify residency is to change the address on your paystubs, but you don't need to change your driver's license or file taxes because you don't need to maintain continuous residency. You just report that you moved away and are still a DC resident, then you can use your OOB address until the terminal grade at the school. [/quote]

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