LinkLinksOpinion Washington Post Editorial Board: How did a D.C. agency accuse hundreds of fraud — and get it wrong more than half the time? By Editor On Nov 30, 2018 37 Share THE DISTRICT’S Office of the State Superintendent of Education announced in May that it had uncovered widespread residency fraud at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. The explosive claim that nearly 30 percent of the student body lived outside the city tarnished the acclaimed school’s reputation. Parents were sent scrambling, and fundraising dried up. It now turns out that those findings were wildly off base, and many families were falsely accused. How did the OSSE get it so wrong, and what does that say about its competency to oversee other aspects of public education? DC Public SchoolsDuke Ellington School of the ArtsOffice of the State Superintendent of Education 37 Share FacebookTwitterReddItWhatsAppEmailPrint
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