Anonymous wrote:In my admittedly anecdotal experience, fake address families have been pretty evenly split between MD, Alexandria, Ffx, and PW county.

I can see Alexandria residents committing fraud to use APS. No one in their right mind would do the reverse…

Doing this for the entire system each fall would not be worth hiring additional admin staff. This year they targeted three grades - K, 5, and 8. I wonder what the workload was and if you could add in two more, maybe 3rd and 11th. Or two per school-level, so K and 4th, 6th and 8th, then 9th and 11th.

Every grade every year would really be onerous but if you hit 5 or 6 grade levels across K-12 it might uncover enough residency fraud to make it worthwhile.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why not validate every grade? If this is just 2 out 12 years (or 3 out of 13 when registering the first time).

Seems like APS could open up a few hundred more seats across the system. Especially useful for the most over crowded schools.

They also check for kindergarten. And this would also catch siblings, so more than just two grades.

I suspect it's a manpower issue to do all of the grades at once.

yeah you know how people complain about too many staff at Syphax but then they also ask why doesn't APS do x, y, z?

Well... you can't have it both ways.

It wasn’t Syphax doing it last year, it was admin assistants, in the office of each School.

This was a Syphax initiative. Probably with the cooperation and assistance of individual school personnel; but still ensured it actually got done by Syphax. I believe the Planning and Evaluation department that everyone likes to complain about.

Obviously, the mandate come down from Syphax. The actual manpower was done at each school level.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why not validate every grade? If this is just 2 out 12 years (or 3 out of 13 when registering the first time).

Seems like APS could open up a few hundred more seats across the system. Especially useful for the most over crowded schools.

They also check for kindergarten. And this would also catch siblings, so more than just two grades.

I suspect it's a manpower issue to do all of the grades at once.

yeah you know how people complain about too many staff at Syphax but then they also ask why doesn't APS do x, y, z?

Well... you can't have it both ways.

It wasn’t Syphax doing it last year, it was admin assistants, in the office of each School.

This was a Syphax initiative. Probably with the cooperation and assistance of individual school personnel; but still ensured it actually got done by Syphax. I believe the Planning and Evaluation department that everyone likes to complain about.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why not validate every grade? If this is just 2 out 12 years (or 3 out of 13 when registering the first time).

Seems like APS could open up a few hundred more seats across the system. Especially useful for the most over crowded schools.

They also check for kindergarten. And this would also catch siblings, so more than just two grades.

I suspect it's a manpower issue to do all of the grades at once.

yeah you know how people complain about too many staff at Syphax but then they also ask why doesn't APS do x, y, z?

Well... you can't have it both ways.

It wasn’t Syphax doing it last year, it was admin assistants, in the office of each School.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why not validate every grade? If this is just 2 out 12 years (or 3 out of 13 when registering the first time).

Seems like APS could open up a few hundred more seats across the system. Especially useful for the most over crowded schools.

They also check for kindergarten. And this would also catch siblings, so more than just two grades.

I suspect it's a manpower issue to do all of the grades at once.

yeah you know how people complain about too many staff at Syphax but then they also ask why doesn't APS do x, y, z?

Well... you can't have it both ways.

Hav you every tried to work with Syphax?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why not validate every grade? If this is just 2 out 12 years (or 3 out of 13 when registering the first time).

Seems like APS could open up a few hundred more seats across the system. Especially useful for the most over crowded schools.

They also check for kindergarten. And this would also catch siblings, so more than just two grades.

I suspect it's a manpower issue to do all of the grades at once.

yeah you know how people complain about too many staff at Syphax but then they also ask why doesn't APS do x, y, z?

Well... you can't have it both ways.

Right? People expect schools to do so much but don’t actually want to pay for it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow interesting. It says this in the article

"APS may still, one day, move the immersion program from Gunston to Kenmore, in an effort to get more secondary students to stick with the program, says Director of Strategic Planning Iliana Gonzales."

Which makes it seem like it might not move at all!

I wonder where the kids that were out of bounds were supposed to go to school. It be interesting to see the data.

Best guess: mostly Alexandria, which is right across the road. Apparently, as cotton ball mom suggests, some come from Maryland. But my guess is most were from Alexandria.

Have heard anecdotally of a lot of kids coming over from Bailey's Crossroads area to APS schools.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why not validate every grade? If this is just 2 out 12 years (or 3 out of 13 when registering the first time).

Seems like APS could open up a few hundred more seats across the system. Especially useful for the most over crowded schools.

They also check for kindergarten. And this would also catch siblings, so more than just two grades.

I suspect it's a manpower issue to do all of the grades at once.

yeah you know how people complain about too many staff at Syphax but then they also ask why doesn't APS do x, y, z?

Well... you can't have it both ways.

Anonymous wrote:Why not validate every grade? If this is just 2 out 12 years (or 3 out of 13 when registering the first time).

Seems like APS could open up a few hundred more seats across the system. Especially useful for the most over crowded schools.

They also check for kindergarten. And this would also catch siblings, so more than just two grades.

I suspect it's a manpower issue to do all of the grades at once.

Why not validate every grade? If this is just 2 out 12 years (or 3 out of 13 when registering the first time).

Seems like APS could open up a few hundred more seats across the system. Especially useful for the most over crowded schools.

Anonymous wrote:would love to see all the different school's numbers. Are they public?

They publish an enrollment report every month. The Sept 30 (first this year) should be published in the next week or two.

would love to see all the different school's numbers. Are they public?

Report officially is on September 30th so my guess is we will see it next week or at the next board meeting.

Have they release the stats of how many students did voluntary transfers?