"Our attendance department does a good job ensuring all of our students are residents of Woodbridge Township. “It is our responsibility to ensure that taxpayer resources are used to maintain our schools, and that Woodbridge Township residents benefit from those resources," Zega said. “The Woodbridge School District Residency Fraud Task Force will continue to investigate and take administrative and/or legal actions against the parents or custodians who fraudulently register children as legal residents of Woodbridge Township.” "Residency fraud that results in the registration of students who do not legally reside in Woodbridge Township not only cheats parents and taxpayers that play by the rules and pay their school taxes, but it also seriously impacts the Quality-of-Life for township residents,” McCormac said. READ: Woodbridge teenager Sparsh Shah desires to inspire Many of the illegally registered students reside in neighboring communities such as Carteret, Perth Amboy, Edison, Rahway, South Plainfield, Linden, New Brunswick, Sayreville, and a few from as far away as Irvington and Elizabeth, officials said. 1, 2018 to March 31, which resulted in the identification of the 89 students illegally attending township district schools. Administrative and/or legal complaint action(s) were initiated which resulted in the withdrawal of the students from the attendance rolls and recouped more than $100,540 in unpaid tuition, officials said. The task force, which began work at the start of the 2018-19 school year, reviewed 1,870 cases from Sept. McCormac and Superintendent of Schools Robert Zega said in a news release Wednesday. The Woodbridge School District Residency Fraud Enforcement Task Force has identified 89 students illegally enrolled in the school district’s 25 elementary, middle and high schools and has implemented legal and/or administrative actions to remove the students from the classroom and recoup the cost of tuition and penalties, Mayor John E. WOODBRIDGE - The township and school district are cracking down on out-of-town students, who are illegally enrolled in public schools here. Watch Video: Piscataway's groundbreaking of $32M community center
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