D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 5, r. 5-E2002
Application 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.
Application 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.
Residence attendance zone restrictions shall not apply to the following:
If 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.
The 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.
Prior 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 minor student must be accompanied at registration by a parent or guardian.
The parent or guardian shall provide the following information for each registering minor student:
An 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.
The principal or other person responsible for admission or enrollment may require the following
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Any 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.
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.
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 shall be made to enroll as a non-resident student and pay all non-resident tuition, as set forth in § 2007.
Repealed
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Any 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.
The 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.
All records and information received and maintained pursuant to this section shall be subject to the requirements and restrictions set forth in Chapter 26.
Except 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.
Entrance-level placements for handicapped students shall be determined by referral of the student for assessment and evaluation pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 30.
Bilingual 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.
Entrance-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.
A 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:
Administrators shall place the eligible students in appropriate educational programs compatible with their last grade completed pending evaluative studies or alternative placement when necessary.
D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 5, r. 5-E2002