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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is the deal - all you need is a few well publicized stories on Families having to pay - and implication to students and people will start to think twice about it.
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It's well publicized that some people who commit crimes go to jail for a long time, but there's still plenty of crime - that's because criminals don't expect to get caught. Research consistently finds that "The certainty of being caught is a vastly more powerful deterrent than the punishment." (https://nij.gov/five-things/pages/deterrence.aspx)

An out-of-district parent who knows of dozens of people who don't pay anything and a few who pay a lot, they are unlikely to be deterred. So while people who are caught shouldn't be let off the hook, the focus should be on removing out-of-district families.[/quote]

Here's the other way to catch the scammers. Right now, many schools have a financial incentive not to worry about residency fraud.  DC should make clear that if schools report fraud and expel scammers, that they will get to keep their funding and even get a bonus for each fraud case they uncover.  On the other hand, if the fraud is uncovered by OSSE, then the school should lose 150% of the scammer's per pupil funding allotment.  That will focus the principals on the problem damn quick.[/quote]

You have this backwards.  OSSE should do ALL of the residency verification and the schools should do none. Take it out of individual schools' hands just like they did with the lottery.  It's either all above board or OSSE owns the failures.[/quote]

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