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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you have no intention of moving, but just want to avail yourself of a charter school. You have to pay. Here's what we did. We participated in the lottery and the school we wanted to pay "out of state" tuition. We were immediately given the last place on the wait list. We waited for the wait list to whittle down. As soon as our number was called we sprinted down to the school and fully enrolled. You have to do this quickly, because if a DC resident shows up you go behind them UNLESS you are fully enrolled. The school then sets up a mechanism for you to make payments which get send to OSSE, part of which is sent back to the charter to pay for your kid's services. In our case it worked because we were at a newer school. Once you're enrolled, they can't kick you out for a DC resident, and you're in for life as long as you keep paying. It's about 12K.[/quote]

Problem solved, just tell the truth, what not of us like are dishonest cheats - if you pay tuition no problem :)[/quote]

So...on the flip side, you are saying that once your kid is in, you can then move out of DC, start paying tuition and not have to live in DC anymore to keep your kid in the charter?[/quote]

Yes, and you get sibling preference. Realistically, it's not a big deal. Families get in when charters are young, but not enough of them to "overrun the school" because until they fully enroll, they get displaced by DC residents who get in. YY has a handful of families who are in this category. Bridges also has out-of-state residents. Once the school grows and demand is higher, non-DC  residents won't get off the wait list. [/quote]

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