The Brooklyn principal, who lives on Long Island, uses his parent's address for his work in Brownsville, sends his daughter to a high-performance school for ten minutes from where she works.
This suspected symbol allows Samantha McKelhoney John, who has led the PS 327 Rose B. English Doctor since September 2023, avoiding paying at least $5,000 for non-resident tuition fees to the city. You can do it.
John, 47, lives in Roosevelt, Nassau County, where a struggling public school was once taken over by the state.
However, her daughter's home address is listed in records at Brooklyn Landmark Elementary School in Bedford Stuyvesant as Thomas S. Boyland Street, an apartment several blocks away from PS 327.
There, Jessica Mott lives with two children attending PS 327.
“I can't answer questions now,” Mott told a reporter who knocked on the apartment door.
Mott refused to say whether he knew John had used his address or whether he gave primary permission.
To register a student in NYC, parents or guardians must provide at least two evidence of residency, such as rental agreements and utility bills.
Joyce Beckless Knight, the principal of a Brooklyn landmark, did not respond to an email asking how John confirmed his Brownsville address when he signed up for his daughter as his first DOE attendee in July. did.
Legal experts say claiming a false address to register with a public school could be charged with fraud or theft.
John (47), who earned $179,251 last year by using his Brooklyn address, avoids avoiding payments for a non-resident primary school in NYC tuition fee of $5,425 per year $48,392 for general students or special students.
John arrives at PS 327 in the morning with his daughter. The daughter was wearing a bright orange Brooklyn landmark shirt, a source told the Post.
The girl sits in the principal's office and leaves until John takes the child to a nearby Brooklyn landmark, returning to PS 327.
It is unclear whether John was able to register his daughter at a Brooklyn landmark to facilitate her at a school near her job, or whether there is a quality of education.
Students Brooklyn Landmark School scores far above the city-wide average for school math and reading exams; PS 327 A score well below average.
Roosevelt Public Schools own A long and big history. State boards of education took over dangerous schools in 2002 with low district performance and little improvement in 11 years. State Secretary Tom Dinapoli has found the district “Fiscal stress” 2022.
Tampering with potentially criminal addresses is particularly unethical when principals do it, experts say.
“It is certainly a conflict of interest for public school administrators to engage in such activities while enforcing rules against other parents,” he said, “Co-author Tim Dilush, when a good parent goes, said, prison, ” National Research in 2023 About “address sharing”.
Derouche, president of “Available to All,” a watchdog group that promotes equal access to public schools, opposes prosecuting parents to deal with counterfeiting.
However, he has no sympathy for education leaders who use the tricks to register their children in a more desirable or convenient school.
“I agree that it's an abuse of authority. Certainly, her work could be at risk,” Derouche said of John.
John did not reply to a message seeking comment. A DOE spokesperson did not respond to repeated inquiries.
