Two Metropolitan Police Department employees and a public charter school teacher who live outside D.C. illegally sent their children to D.C. public schools, according to lawsuits filed by the D.C. attorney general.
D.C. police Detective Stephen Davis and Akila Johnson, who also works for the department, have seven children and live in Maryland, according to the attorney general. The lawsuit alleges one or more of their children went to public school in D.C. over the past four school years.
The suit against them seeks $545,163 in back tuition and penalties under the District’s False Claims Act.
The children of teacher Duriel Cobb and his ex-wife Talaya Cobb went Miner Elementary School and KIPP public charter schools when Duriel Cobb taught at those schools but lived outside the District, according to a lawsuit against the Cobbs. That suit seeks $293,949 in back tuition and penalties.
D.C. requires tuition be paid for students who attend public school in the District but don’t have a parent or guardian who lives here.
In 2016, the attorney general’s office won a $539,000 judgement against D.C. police officers Alan and Candace Hill. While Alan Hill owned a property in D.C., he rented it out and lived in Virginia and Maryland while the couple’s three children attended school in D.C.
