Listen as Larry spoke with Ashley Carter, an At-Large Member for the DC State Board of Education, regarding Inspector General regarding D.C. Public School officials failing to collect tuition from families residing outside the city.

Inspector general finds lax enforcement of D.C. schools’ residency regulations (The Washington Post)

School officials in the nation’s capital failed to collect most of the tuition they were owed from families outside the city whose children attend public schools and allowed those students to remain in the system even when their parents defaulted on payment agreements, according to a D.C. inspector general’s audit.

The audit, released Tuesday by Inspector General Daniel W. Lucas, portrays inadequate record-keeping and lax enforcement of laws against fraudulent enrollment by nonresident families at the Office of the State Superintendent of Education — the oversight agency that monitors both the city’s traditional schools and public charter schools. [Read More]

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