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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look, this is a big deal. DC offers free PK and surrounding counties do not-- that is HUGE incentive to cheat. One of the people profiled in that daily caller is a friend of mine. She (a PG county resident) said honestly that's what everyone she knows in her circle does and they don't (or didn't) consider it to be a big deal. Generations of her family lived or still live in DC and using their addresses is just very common, she told me. 
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I had to delete a FB post after that MPD case because the back-and-forth became too much for me. People that I grew up with---who now live in Md didn't seem to care or think they were doing anything wrong. The law is simply an inconvenience circumvented by manipulating a few documents. The fraud might be greater over here in Ward 8 ( at least at the preschool level) simply due to proximity. I see too many charter school uniforms from people that I know for a fact live in Maryland and don't fit into that category of hypothetical "what-ifs". Craziest thing is one of my interns told me about how rampant it is at his college. [b]Apparently he knows quite a few students who graduated from Md high schools and are in there using DC TAG. [/quote][/b]

I don't believe this.  It sounds like something made up and contrived to bolster a point. The dollars do not add up to forego in-state tuition for a measly $10,000 stipend that is not automatic every year. DC TAG is first come-first serve until the money runs out. So a student is not guaranteed the money every year. Below are tuition figures for some of the universities in the MD system.  The first number is in-state tuition and the second is non-resident tuition. In-state tuition wins even when compared to a potential $10,000 stipend.

UMCP           $9,996           $31,144
St Mary's      $13,895         $28,745
UMBC           $11,006         $23,790
Towson         $8,590           $20,268
Bowie           $7,299           $17,875
Morgan         $7,508           $17,182
UMES            $7,625           $16,687
Salisbury       $6,712           $15,058

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Wouldn't make sense to do it for a Maryland university. But a MD resident could potentially fraudulently use DC TAG money for school in any of the other 49 sites, one of the a private DC universities or an HBCU.

I find it hard to imagine, but if the child were enrolled in a DC high school that works with the CAP program to help kids get into college, the DC TAG application would be done almost pro forma.[/quote]

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