Parents cheating on magnet school applications have happened for years. Now it appears there is a new focus to stop scofflaw parents from attending the best schools while living outside district boundaries.
Anonymous complaints about residency can now be sent to authorities for cash rewards. The focus has been on students attending Dallas ISD’s Booker T Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
The group is currently offering $5000 rewards for information about parents using Dallas addresses to get their students into Dallas magnet programs.
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From the article: A notice appeared recently on the Texas-based Government Crime Stoppers website, encouraging people with “information regarding admission irregularities at Booker T. High School or other magnet schools” to send a secure tip online. Potential violations leading to legal action, the site says, may include “taking out short-term apartment leases … paying the utility bills of in-district residents to get their names on the bills to claim residency” or even “manufacturing fake documents to fraudulently show residency inside the district.”
Cheating Issues
These issues have been going on for the better part of a decade.
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