All Beverly Hills students soon may be required to prove their residency

01-20-2010

By Carla Rivera/Los Angeles Times

One student enrolled in Beverly Hills High School this year using a virtual address obtained on the Web. Other Beverly Hills students have falsely claimed to live with grandparents or cousins who reside in the city. Unethical owners of Beverly Hills properties have even sold mailing addresses to out-of-area students. The use of fraudulent addresses to enroll in the city's acclaimed schools is an age-old problem, according to officials with the Beverly Hills Unified School District who recounted these examples. But such deceptions soon may be harder to carry out under a proposed plan to recertify every family in the 4,900-student district and expel those who have been lying about where they live. The district already has a full-time employee who investigates cases of questionable residency, and about 150 students annually are asked to leave. (more...)

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