Ten students attending D.C. Public Schools list the same address as their home. A PTA president in Ward 2 drops her kids off in a BMW with Maryland plates.
In Ward 8, schools turn the other cheek when they discover that students from the suburbs are using fraudulent addresses to attend D.C. Public Schools for free — the schools are underenrolled, and funding is based on head count.
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