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Agreed.  And the scope of the issue is also completely blown up.  This is "Cadillac Welfare Mom" redux (except with an Escalade!)  While cheating isn't good, there's no evidence that it is some kind of systematic fraud making any sort of meaningful impact on DCPS.  This just seems to be a perfect storm of white parents obsessed with being "shut out" from their PK3, and a "news" organization pushing an ideological agenda that is very happy to bash DC and black people in general.  [/quote]

Scope blown up?  Really?  You may not like the Daily Caller, but you are being disingenuous if you pretend this isn't a substantial problem. [/quote]

There's no evidence that this is a "substantial problem"!!  That's the whole point ... [/quote]

From a 2012 article:
http://dcist.com/2012/05/dc_looks_into_non-residents_who_att.php

That, of course, got us to thinking—how many non-residents actually send their kids to D.C. public schools?
Not many, it seems. According to an audit performed by the D.C. Office of the State Superintendent for Education, of the 45,191 students in D.C. public schools, only 198 are non-residents. Of the 31,562 students enrolled in public charter schools, 38 were from outside D.C.
Still, the interesting issue seems to be that many of those non-resident students just don't pay what they owe. The audit found that 126 of the 198 non-resident students in DCPS avoided paying their way; in charter schools, it was 32 of the 38.[/quote]

I thought there were more recent articles on this? Or maybe the issue just keeps coming up. Another 2012 article:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/d.c.-investigating-more-than-100-special-ed-students-for-residency-fraud/article/618326
"D.C. school officials are investigating whether they spent about $7.7 million to send 118 special-education students to private schools who they were never responsible for to begin with.

Under federal law, the District must pay to send special-education students whose needs aren't served by their neighborhood schools elsewhere, often to private school. Between tuition and transportation — school buses regularly transport students to Baltimore and further — the average cost per student is $65,000 each year."[/quote]

This is where the real costs are (direct cash out of pocket by DCPS) and where the incentive for cross-border fraud arguably is greatest.[/quote]

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