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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Okay that works. But that means that the kid is a DC resident who attended a MD high school and paid out-of-state tuition. I used to know people who sent their kids to BCC and paid the tuition. It was cheaper than private. Otherwise, would not the TAG providers question a MD High School graduate when looking at their application? The application ask for proof of GD or HS graduation. DC TAG does not cover private universities, unless it's an HBCU like Spelman. And, private HBCU only receives $2,500 reduction with TAG not $10,000.  [/quote]

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