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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In big picture terms, I wonder how much residency fraud impacts enrollment.  To gain access as a non-resident requires some degree of fraud but there's a range of methods. Some use family, friends or non-residential addresses while some falsely claim housing instability.  For the latter, does this possibly overstate the issue of student homelessness in the schools, thus impacting DC residents' decision making on if and where to enroll (DCPS or DCPCS)?

Not to minimize the difficulties for actual DC resident families struggling with housing instability, but such fraud would also impact the at-risk students who depend on every dollar allocated to the schools for support.[/quote]

Most people don't want to make life difficult for kids from struggling families (even if they are bending the rules).

The situation that is emerging with the details in these successive stories is that there is significant fraud from middle class families -- often with DC or fed gov jobs -- and the myth that it's primarily at-risk kids is just played to misdirect the attention.
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