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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread seems like damage control to spin over the real story.  Non-paying, non-resident students were (are?) rampant at the school, and its front office records were so bad it took an OSSE investigation to figure out how bad it was.  And the initial local news report focuses on how the parents were offended by OSSE...just crazy, literally, imo.[/quote]

Ten. Repeat --10, confessed to being non-residents. Hardly rampant. The other 22 or so "uncontested" includes people who did not get or respond to outreach. Doesn't make them non-residents.

But again let's stop playing games with the band aids. Let's get to the real issues. None of this would be an issue if DCPS provided strong enough arts education in middle schools so that Ellington never even think about letting someone in from MD or Va, tuition or otherwise. Some departments, such as Dance, need let in MD or Va people because there are enough dance training programs in DC that offer solid training. But strings? No way. Serious visual art? No way. Better arts training throughout the system and Ellington could function like all others schools, which is to only let in DC people unless they cannot fill a slot. Barring that MD and VA need to subsidize Ellington until such time as they create their own arts high schools.[/quote]

You're still minimizing the scope of quite a large problem.  From WTOP:

"The November report, released by the Office of the State Superintendent of Education, has revealed 65 percent of the 219 Duke Ellington School of the Arts students investigated have been found to be residents of the District, clearing them of all accusations of fraud.  Another 10 percent of the accused students didn’t fight the accusations, five percent admitted to fraud and 20 percent of the cases remain open."

https://wtop.com/dc/2018/11/report-families-wrongly-accused-of-duke-ellington-school-of-the-arts-residency-fraud/

My math says that 35% of the 219 originally singled out results in a total of 77 fraudsters.  Well, 44 of them have to go to a hearing, but if they haven't been cleared by now, it's not good for them.  33 clear fraudsters, and 44 very likely fraudsters.  A lot.

Just deal with it.

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