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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Very.  There's an audition, exam, and family interview.  [/quote]

So why, with the latest $200 million subsidy from D.C. Taxpayers, does Ellington take kids from Maryland while it turns away kids from Washington?![/quote]

Go to an open house and ask. [/quote]

Why don't you tell us taxpayers.  We'd love to know why we're subsidizing MoCo and PG kids when DC kids are being rejected.  How is educating Maryland students part of Ellington's mission?[/quote]

If no bass players from DC apply, and a talented bass player from Silver Spring wants to pay tuition and attend, why not?[/quote]

So you're telling us that zero D.C. kids are turned away in favor of MD kids?[/quote]

No, simply that it's not as simple as you make it out to be. A DC kid who has no talent, or an empty slot, will go to an out of state kid. They decide yes/no on all the DC kids before they consider any from out of state.

In addition, the percentage of tuition paying students is capped at 10%. The out of state enrollment is below that limit now (42 out of 575).
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The "legal" out of stare enrollment is below the cap.  We all know there are students there that lie about residency.[/quote]

That's not an Ellington-specific problem, it is endemic to DCPS.

Hence, your beef is with DCPS and OSSE.  You are in the wrong forum.[/quote]

Whenever a question comes up about Ellington's accountability to DCPS, Ellington defenders talk about the school's autonomy from DCPS.  Yet residency fraud is someone else's problem.   Sad.[/quote]

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