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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

The scope of the problem from OSSE audit can be found here. http://osse.dc.gov/release/osse-moves-forward-non-resident-enforcement

Non-resident students who did NOT pay tuition (and % makeup of total enrollment)
DCPS 126 (0.3%)
PCS 32   (0.1%)
Non-Public 118 (6.9%)
Total 276 (0.35%)
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Honestly? This is tiny. You're talking about 276 kids in a school system with 45,000 students (http://dc.gov/DCPS/About+DCPS/Who+We+Are).  
- About 23 students in each of grades K-12 (276 scofflaws/45,000 kids in the DC school system)
- About 2 kids per school (276 kids/125 schools)
- The cost to the DC school system may be $2-3M. But I'm not sure that setting up a whole reporting system, with a staff of "enforcers" and a dedicated, computerized reporting system, is a net budget gain. 
- DC is probably coming out ahead when you consider DC residents sneaking into VA and MoCo. I'm going to take a wild guess here and say that at LEAST 276 DC kids are sneaking across the border to MoCo schools. I'm not sure you'd even have to include the kids of divorced parents, where one lives in MoCo (which I think is totally legit, BTW, because as a PP said, the MoCo parent is paying taxes).

I agree with the PP who says you need to get a life. I too recognize these recurring posts. I think it may just be one obsessed poster, who needs to find something else to be morally outraged about. I know - how about getting outraged about bad Anacostia schools? Lack of textbooks? Low teacher salaries?[/quote] Note OSSE audit just checked that the documentation was in order. A worthwhile additional step would be to take a random sample of students and check if the documentation submitted corresponds to their actual residential address. Without doing this there is no way to estimate the size of the problem.[/quote]

So you want to spend major taxpayer $$$ to conduct a random survey (are you random survey lady who doesn't seem to have taken statistics?) to try to substantiate your personal suspicions?[/quote]

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