CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- In a case investigators have deemed “especially egregious,” Chicago Public School officials are fighting to get over $100,000 in tuition back from a family accused of not living in the city while attending selective enrollment schools, but the family is fighting back.
The case centers around Dr. Edward Huang, an infectious disease specialist, and Kim Chhay, who has worked as a hospital pharmacist, and three of their four children. The family's attorney said those three children lived in Chicago's Sauganash neighborhood between 2011-2019, when their mother move herself and three children into her brother's home citing family tension.
While the Tribune reported CPS accuses the family of providing misleading information about their residency, at the same time, the children attending schools like Edison Regional Gifted Center and Decatur Classical School.
Investigators said the family is based in Skokie, and surveillances seem to prove they were living there while enrolling in CPS. A move the Inspector General's Office said took valuable seats away from students truly eligible for them.
The Tribune reported children must live within city limits to attend CPS schools and establish residency by July 1, before the start of the school year. Violators can be charged tuition as determined by the district.
The district is seeking a $105,000 tuition bill, as well as disenrolling and banning the young children from future selective enrollment.
The family attorney is vowing to continue fighting to prove no rules were broken.
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