District 207 Superintendent Ken Wallace says the district is working to improve its residency verification processes after some members of the Maine South Football team were found to not be legal residents of the district.
Maine Township High School District 207's offices, 1177 S. Dee Road in Park Ridge.
The news sparked uproar in Park Ridge and around the north and northwest suburbs, with residents taking to social media to express their concerns and disappointment about the situation and speculating about where to place blame.At a special District 207 board of education meeting Monday night, Wallace said the investigation had taught “important lessons that we are already using to improve our process.
“Someone appears and they come into school and they’ve got a lease for an apartment, for example, they’ve got the utility bills they show, perhaps even if they’ve gotten either an ID or a license [linked] to that address, or they maybe have registered a car to that address,” he said. The policy advanced to second reading with minimal discussion March 6. Wallace said the district approved the change to make the standards around residency clearer.
“Between the investigation itself, which is weeks, if not months, and then the multiple levels of due process, you’re looking at a two-to-three month turnaround, which is why the penalties were just recently announced,” he said.
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