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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Nader Issa

CPS wants former student’s family to pay $56,000 over allegations of lying about residency

Northside College Preparatory School, located at 5501 N. Kedzie Ave., on the Northwest Side. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times file)

Chicago Public Schools officials are trying to recoup more than $56,000 from a family who’s accused of living in the northern suburbs but lying about their residency to send their daughter to a highly competitive city high school.

The student attended Northside College Prep, a selective enrollment school on Chicago’s Northwest Side, from 2019 until this past December, according to a report released Thursday by the CPS inspector general’s office.

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