Paying for Non-Residents
Tying into yesterday's post about pissing away money, here's another way CPS is footing the bill for kids who don't even live in the city:
A north suburban Lincolnwood family improperly sent their two kids to a Chicago Public Schools selective-enrollment elementary school for six years.
Then, once it was time for high school, the family moved into the city but lied about living in a lower-income neighborhood to boost the children’s chances of getting into a selective-enrollment high school.
That’s according to an investigation done by the CPS Office of the Inspector General, which detailed the findings in its annual report released Tuesday.
From May 2014 until August 2020, the family violated the student residency requirements of CPS by enrolling their kids at Decatur Classical Elementary in West Rogers Park, investigators found. The school sits a few blocks from neighboring suburb Lincolnwood, where the family lived.
How bad are Lincolnwood schools that this family would lie about residency to send their kids to CPS?
The head of the teachers' union won't even send her kids to CPS.
Then again, wasn't it billionaire Governor Rauner who rented an apartment in Chicago so his teenager had a city address to go to a selective enrollment high school?
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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No names or a home address for these thieves. Plenty of others out there doing the same thing.
You would be surprised by the number of non-Chicago families that lie to get their kids into CPS schools. CPS OIG loves nailing them as it brings in money to CPS, unlike Employee Residency violators. Employee violators cost money and CPS loses an employee, normally a teacher, Admin, or counselor.
Case #1: Prosser Career Academy HS counselor Diana Martel-Ortiz and her Clerk boyfriend from Prosser Jeffrey Bates (formerly Davis and a former Insane Unkown street gang member) were caught lying where they lived to get her daughter into Northside Prep HS. Both Martel-Ortiz and Bates were living in Lincolnwood. Bates was grandfathered-in and could live wherever he wanted, but he lied to help keep up appearances as other Prosser employees knew they were living together. Bates was caught doctoring CPS records to say they both lived in Chicsgo.
Bates lost his $65K job and his sweetie pie lost her $95K job. They jointly filed for bankruptcy the following year. The tuition was never paid back to CPS
Case #2: Lane Tech English teacher/Assistant Baseball Coach Brisn Telles lied to CPS from the time of his hiring until 8 1/2 years later about him and his family living in Chicago when they actually lived in Schaumburg.
The kicker here is Telles' daughter attended Lane for 1 1/2 years while living with him, her mother, and siblings in Schaumburg.
CPS never did anything to Telles after he moved back to Chicago after 8 1/2 years in Schaumburg and never made him repay his daughter's 1 1/2 years of non-Chicago Residency student tuition.
Telles later got divorced after his wife caught him banging the Lane Tech English dept chair and Head Girls Soccer coach Michelle Vale. Vale is now a Lake View HS Assistant Principal and Telles was promoted to English Dept Chair.
Screw up, move up.
They can track down students and parents cheating on eligibility, but cannot find a single CTU President living outside the city?
They may be non residents, but at least they belong in this country. They also paid state and federal taxes, unlike the Eight Million Persons Diversity Invasion Joey Shitz Pantz has allowed to overrun our southern border.
Hell, with their rental properties in West Rogers Park of Chicago, their corporation was even paying CPS Taxes too.
Yeah, they cheated. They probably thought they could get away with it by voting Democrat too.
Backwards thinking.
Selective schools in Chicago can be highly regarded by parents who care about their kids' education.
There is the woke bullshit but that also occurs in suburban schools.
Didn't Jordan's kid go to WHitney Young?
Maybe they wanted more of the DEI bullshit they’re obviously very liberal and extremely stupid. The people here that are forced to send their children to indoctrination centers would rather send their children to another school. How about we send the illegals that are here to new Trier in Glencoe that is a great school. Great neighborhood also plenty of empty buildings in the business district that could be used. They would be warm. Be able to get good food, the great education and like in the other thread with underutilized public schools oh sorry, public indoctrination center they could close those down saving the taxpayers billions of dollars for the Democrats are not about saving money there about using the money to buy the votes
Jeez, who did this clouted-up family piss off? Reading the article it must be real estate related.
Not much has changed. When north Roseland got put into Harlan’s district in the mid 60s, every non-Catholic parent searched madly for a relative in Fenger’s district.
Those kids must have been little devils. Because that's a very long punishment. These parents don't play no games.
Bring back the school district system like we had years back.
You went to your neighborhood school. There wasn't any busing. Kids all walked too. No getting driven those few blocks to school by car.
There is a need for a catch phrase for the privileged.
Something that makes the gibsmedat crowd jealous.
It used to be a big problem in oak park.
Kids using grandma's op address for school registration.
But, CPS.... really ?
How bad are Lincolnwood schools that this family would lie about residency to send their kids to CPS?
Well at least at CPS this kid could brag that he his at the top of their class. Whereas in Lincolnwood he would probably be in the bottom half.
Former Lincolnwood resident. First of all, there's far more "address fraud" going on in Lincolnwood, with mostly Asian families living in north-side Chicago using "auntie's" address to attend Lincolnwood schools K-8, then Niles West HS. Far better choice than CPS for their kids who fail to perform on CPS selective-enrollment test, which is first hurdle towards admissions. Point is, many 1st generation Asian families are willing to scam system to achieve best educations for their children.
And speaking of "scamming", Lincolnwood is long notorious for its residents reporting median middle-income earnings to IRS, but often driving 2 or 3 late model luxury, which contradict supposed family household income. Many Lincolnwood residents enjoy splashy lifestyles of nice cars, We'd joke that Lincolnwood was a "2 Mercedes in every driveway" community.
Lincolnwood is also the boyhood home of such scammers as "Hollywood Varsity Blues" college admissions scandal, Bill Singer, and Lawfare warrior head of Justice Dept Merritt Garland. Allan Dorfman and the mob hung-out at Purple Hotel Hyatt. Both Mike Cherry, the infamous Dem Party fixer-bundler, and a professional shoplifter Gypsy clan live there too.
Maybe its the drinking-water. Lincolnwood began as a speakeasy spot. Many Lincolnwood residents seem to indulge in passive white-collar crimes and petty thievery, far more than North Shore suburbanites. Town of petty criminals safely residing in bucolic 50s suburb.
CPS told the inspector general’s office that it reached a settlement with the parents for the tuition they owed.
A real reporter would seek out what they paid. Probably Pennie’s on the dollar.
Flip the script.
A homeless person can attend any school that they want.
That’s one of many loopholes.
The divore\seperation game is another.
Solution.
No tiers, no iep’s, and no time outs during standard tests in order to get a new question on the test.
I just can't blame the parents in this case as they are, in their mind, giving their kids the best chance at success. But, the unions want the end of selective enrollment schools . It seems that the mayor and the union think that forcing all of the non-black kids into the mainstream public schools will make things better. I think it will either force the parents to send their kids to private schools or move out of the city. There is no way they will send their kids to an hell hole of a Chicago Public school
Common tactic in our suburban district. Sign a lease for an apartment in the district. Use the lease to register. Never actually move in or pay rent. Now they are "evicted" and "homeless". District pays for taxis to transport them to and from their homes in the city or Joliet.
we are REALLY gonna be paying for non residents now.
Anonymous said...
Bring back the school district system like we had years back.
You went to your neighborhood school. There wasn't any busing. Kids all walked too. No getting driven those few blocks to school by car.
1/11/2024 07:25:00 AM
You are so correct this would save probably billions of dollars you went to your neighborhood school you didn’t get bussed you didn’t get driven, you would walk to your school with some of your classmates saved a lot of money I see some schools I live by the Byrne and watching all the cars it’s a huge parade of vehicles dropping children off you wonder why are they being driven and do they live in a neighborhood because some of the vehicles if you look at them have suburban city stickers on them so I have no stickers at all, so where do they live?
Oak Park has an extremely lax "residency requirement" for its public schools. Open secret, long-established liberal policy ala "reparations for under-privileged people" notions. OPRF HS had at least 200+ Chicago-resident POC students back a decade ago, with a profound negative impact on hallway decorum and disciplinary issues. Many "white privilege" students indulged in modelling themselves after the Chicago kids.
Didn't Jordan's kid go to WHitney Young?
1/11/2024 03:41:00 AM
They went to Loyola H.S.
I know some CPS teachers and ALL of them sent their kids to private schools. As far as "selective enrollment"....it is just a private school for Dems who want to say they send their kids to public school while keeping the undesirables, who they claim they support, out.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Didn't Jordan's kid go to WHitney Young?
1/11/2024 03:41:00 AM
They went to Loyola H.S.
1/11/2024 10:11:00 PM
Marcus Jordan transferred to WY from LA, now he's hitting up Scottie Pippen's ex-wife Larsa 5 times a day
Basketball career
High school
Jordan originally played high school basketball with his older brother Jeffrey Jordan at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois. In Marcus's sophomore year, the pair led the school to the conference championships and the best season in school history.
Jordan transferred to Whitney Young Magnet High School in Chicago for his junior and senior seasons. He led the Whitney Young Dolphins to the Illinois 4A Championship in 2009, scoring a game-high 19 points in a 69–66 victory over Waukegan.[12] He also was named the state tournament's most valuable player. Upon his 2009 graduation, Jordan was rated by ESPNU as the 60th-best high school senior shooting guard in the country, averaging 10.0 points, 4.5 rebounds, and 3.2 assists per game.[1]
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