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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Grosso has weighed in. Don't expect anything resembling a crackdown anytime soon.

https://twitter.com/maustermuhle/status/986340225440940037[/quote]

Ugh.

Translation:
We know there is fraud, but it's hard and takes work to ferret out and honestly, we don't really care very much.[/quote]

More like, if we ferret out the fraud we'd have to admit that

a) DC school population is NOT growing 
b) we'd have to close schools 
c) charter operators would be able to lease the schools and siphon more students away from DCPS[/quote]

What makes you think some of the residency fraud committed is not occurring as much if not MORE at charters?  OSSE covers both.  This isn't a DCPS issue, it's a public education issue.[/quote]

I do think it happens at charters.  But it would be harder to do.  For a neighborhood school all you need is an address that convinces the registrar.  For a charter, you would need that AND a good lottery number or someone willing to sneak you in.  That's harder to do.[/quote]

My guess is that the majority of residency fraud (not boundary cheating) is at charters that do not have much, if any, of a wait list.  This shouldn't stop investigations into Ellington and elsewhere from happening, but that's where the numbers come from.

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You are wrong - people are not cheating to get into crappy schools.[/quote]

Nah. You're mistaken. Plenty of people are for PK3/PK4 and/or a convenient commute.

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Yes, and what sucks is that the incentive is to keep those kids enrolled so that these middling charters don't lose money or even close down. So the watchdogs need to be much much stronger. Actually everyone's incentive is to keep the numbers artificially high. Yet another problem with mayoral rule over everything. Where is the check and balance?[/quote]

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