Section 5-E2002. ADMISSION AND REGISTRATION PROCEDURES

 

2002.1Application for admission to the D.C. Public Schools shall be made by registering at the school for which the student is eligible which is located in the attendance zone within which the applicant resides.

 

2002.2Application for admission to the D.C. Public Schools by students who reside outside of the District of Columbia shall be made to the appropriate office to be designated by the Superintendent. Approval of any applications shall be within the discretion of the official vested by the Superintendent of Schools with such authority.

 

2002.3Residence attendance zone restrictions shall not apply to the following:

 

(a)Career development centers;

 

(b)Special education schools or programs;

 

(c)Adult education day and evening schools; or

 

(d)Other schools and programs that provide city-wide curricular opportunities for all qualified students regardless of their place of residence in the District of Columbia.

 

2002.4If admission to a particular school or program is not based upon residence in a particular attendance zone, initial registration may be required at the appropriate attendance zone school, as required in § 2002.1, or at another place designated by the Superintendent of Schools.

 

2002.5The principal or other person in charge of registration for each school or program shall be responsible for the receipt of all applications for admission, the conduct of registration procedures, and the certification that all admission requirements and prerequisites have been properly met by the student and that each student is provided a copy of Section 2401 (Student Bill of Rights) upon registration.

 

2002.6Prior to the admission of a student the adult student, or the student’s parent or guardian shall be required to provide documentary proof of the date of birth of each registering student. Proof of age may include, but is not necessarily limited to, any one (1) of the following:

 

(a)An original or certified true copy of the student’s official birth certificate;

 

(b)A valid, unexpired passport which gives the student’s date of birth;

 

(c)A sworn (notarized) affidavit of the student’s correct date of birth. Affidavit forms shall be available from each principal or other person responsible for admission and registration procedures;

 

(d)An official transcript from the last school attended which includes the student’s date of birth; or

 

(e)An original or certified true copy of the student’s baptismal certificate which includes the student’s date of birth.

 

2002.7A minor student must be accompanied at registration by a parent or guardian.

 

2002.8The parent or guardian shall provide the following information for each registering minor student:

 

(a)Full name of the student;

 

(b)Full name, home address, and work address of each parent, guardian, or other person having custody or control of the minor student for the purpose of admission;

 

(c)The home and work telephone numbers of each parent, guardian, or other responsible adult or, in each case, the telephone number through which each person may be contacted at home and at work;

 

(d)The name and telephone number of a person or persons who should be contacted in case of an emergency;

 

(e)The name, address, and telephone number of the student’s physician, clinic, or other person or agency where the student’s medical records are located;

 

(f)The date of registration; and

 

(g)The manner or type of admission.

 

2002.9An adult student shall not be required to provide information about the adult student’s parent or guardian, but shall provide the appropriate items of information about himself or herself.

 

2002.10The principal or other person responsible for admission or enrollment may require the following:

 

(a)The principal or other person responsible for admission and enrollment procedures shall require the submission of at least three (3) documents indicating District of Columbia residency as defined in § 2099, in order to determine whether the student is eligible to attend a D.C. public school or program without payment of non-resident tuition, pursuant to the provisions of §§ 2000.2 and 2000.3.

 

(b)The principal or other person responsible for admission and enrollment procedures has the discretion, upon demand, the parent, court appointed guarding or custodian to provide verification of District of Columbia residency for both current and initially enrolling children/adult students.

 

(c)The documents that shall be accepted for verification of residency for current D.C. Public School students shall be the same indicators of residency required to be submitted for a child/adult initially seeking admission to a D.C. public school.

 

(d)The parent, court-appointed guardian or custodian shall have ten (10) school days to provide the indicators of residency requested. If the required information is not provided in the requested time period, which can be extended at the discretion of the Superintendent or the Superintendent’s designee, arrangements must be made to enroll as a non-resident student and pay all non resident tuition, as set forth in § 2007.

 

(e)Failure to provide the requested information or pay the required tuition will result in exclusion from D.C. Public Schools, subject to tuition waiver authority provided in § 2000.2(e) above.

 

2002.11[REPEALED].

 

2002.12Any person who supplies false information to the D.C. Public Schools in connection with student residency verification shall be subject to a penalty not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500). The case of any such person may also be referred to the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia for consideration for prosecution.

 

2002.13The documents that shall be accepted for verification of residency for current D.C. Public School students shall be the same indicators of residency required to be submitted for a child/adult initially seeking admission to a D.C. public school.

 

2002.14The parent, court-appointed guardian or custodian shall have ten (10) school days to provide the indicators of residency requested. If the required information is not provided in the requested time period, which can be extended at the discretion of the Superintendent or the Superintendent’s designee, arrangements shall be made to enroll as a non-resident student and pay all non-resident tuition, as set forth in § 2007.

 

2002.15[REPEALED].

 

2002.16[REPEALED].

 

2002.17Any person who supplies false information to the D.C. Public Schools in connection with student residency verification shall be subject to a penalty not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500). The case of any such person may also be referred to the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia for consideration for prosecution.

 

2002.18The principal or other person responsible for admission and registration procedures shall keep a record of the removal of any student from the rolls of the school or program and any subsequent readmission of the student.

 

2002.19All records and information received and maintained pursuant to this section shall be subject to the requirements and restrictions set forth in Chapter 26.

 

2002.20Except as provided otherwise in this section, the entrance-level placement of each student shall be individually determined by the principal or other person in charge of the school or program.

 

2002.21Entrance-level placements for handicapped students shall be determined by referral of the student for assessment and evaluation pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 30.

 

2002.22Bilingual and non-English speaking students shall be referred for placement determination to the Office of Bilingual Education, and the appropriate placement determination shall be transmitted to the principal or other person in charge of the school or program.

 

2002.23Entrance-level placement determinations may be challenged under the rules and procedures set forth in Chapter 24, except for challenges to proposed placements for handicapped students which shall be made pursuant to the rules and procedures set forth in Chapter 30.

 

2002.24A local school administrator shall not exclude from admission or attendance any compulsory school-aged minor who resides in his or her school’s attendance zone or who has been placed in his or her school by the Division of Special Education or the Division of Bilingual Education, unless the minor has been involuntarily transferred. This includes, but is not limited to, the following:

 

(a)All minors who will be five (5) years of age on or before December 31st in the current school year and have not yet reached the age of eighteen (18) years;

 

(b)Teen-aged parents who have responsibility for the care of their children;

 

(c)Adjudicated or previously incarcerated youth who return to school voluntarily or by legal mandate;

 

(d)Minors awaiting special education evaluation for appropriate placement; and

 

(e)Compulsory school-aged minors residing temporarily in a shelter, halfway house or similar facility or having no fixed address. The minor may elect to continue enrollment in the local school serving his or her last permanent domicile.

 

2002.25Administrators shall place the eligible students in appropriate educational programs compatible with their last grade completed pending evaluative studies or alternative placement when necessary.

 

 

authority

Section 3(b)(3) of the District of Columbia State Education Office Establishment Act of 2000, effective October 21, 2000 (D.C. Law 13-176; D.C. Official Code § 38-2602(b)(3) (2012 Repl. & 2016 Supp.)); Sections 11 and 16 of the District of Columbia Nonresident Tuition Act, approved September 8, 1960 (74 Stat. 853; D.C. Official Code §§ 38-308(a) and 38-313 (2012 Repl.)); and Mayor’s Order 2017-007; Section 101(d) of the Public School Enrollment Integrity Clarification and Board of Education Honoraria Amendment Act of 2004, effective April 13, 2005 (D.C. Law 15-348; D.C. Official Code § 38-2906.02(c) (2012 Repl. & 2016 Supp.)); and the District of Columbia Public Schools and Public Charter School Student Residency Fraud Prevention Amendment Act of 2012, effective May 9, 2012 (D.C. Law 19-126; D.C. Official Code § 38-312.01(c) (2012 Repl. & 2016 Supp.)).

source

Final Rulemaking published at 24 DCR 1005, 1008 (July 29, 1977); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 36 DCR 180, 182 (January 6, 1989); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 40 DCR 1573 (February 26, 1993); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 45 DCR 2329, 2330 (April 17, 1998); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 49 DCR 7513, 7516 (August 2, 2002); as amended by the Truth in Student Residency in Public and Private Charter Schools Act of 2004, effective December 7, 2004 (51 DCR 8509 (September 3, 2004)); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 64 DCR 3146 (March 31, 2017).