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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The truth is, nobody is paying attention.  There are lots of people who live in Maryland enrolled in DC schools.  At least you're a DC taxpayer. [/quote]

This really makes me angry.  MD and VA parents that game the system to have kids attend DCPS makes me furious.  It has been going on for decades.

I know of some of the games played in DC regarding IB etc.  I'm not thrilled about it but I have much more sympathy if you are paying DC taxes vs those who reside in MD and VA and using a relatives address to send your kid to school in DC.

Superintendent of Education:

For the 2014, 2015 and 2016 school years, the city admitted 85 non-resident students to public and charter schools, but in 82 of those cases did not collect the full tuition they were required to pay prior to the start of the school year. Instead, payment plans were extended to a majority of the students, even though they were not asked to prove that they had a comparable school option where they lived or were facing financial problems that prevented them from paying the tuition in full.

Of the 79 non-resident students that were on payment plans, 51 were allowed to remain in their D.C. school despite having defaulted on what they owed. The amount of uncollected tuition over the three-year period amounted to $169,127.
OSSE failed to report 46 of 67 of the residency fraud cases it uncovered to the city’s attorney general, which prosecutes the cases, or to the city’s Board of Ethics and Government Accountability when they involved the children of city employees. It also did not notify D.C. Public Schools and the charter school system, “which limited the school systems’ ability to proactively identify similar cases.”

In 32 of the 46 fraud cases, OSSE had no settlement agreements with the families found to have violated the law. In the 14 cases for which it did, it only collected $73,090 of the $454,727 in unpaid tuition it was owed. And when that tuition wasn’t paid, OSSE didn’t take steps to let schools know so they could discontinue the students’ enrollment.

Due to a number of shortcomings within OSSE, the city is owed at least $550,764 in unpaid tuition by non-residents.  The inspector general’s audit also found that compared to school systems in surrounding counties in Maryland and Virginia, “District residency documentation requirements were less stringent than those in neighboring school districts.”[/quote]

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