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Podcast: WBEZ News
Episode: Can you prove your teen lives here? Some schools make house calls.
Description: There is a lot of hand wringing in Chicago about declining enrollment at neighborhood high schools.
But in a few communities, demand is off the charts for spots in high performing schools.
To make sure students are entitled to a seat, one South Side school says it visits the home of every incoming neighborhood student to check that they live in the attendance boundary.
WBEZ reporter Courtney Kueppers told Lisa Labuz that some parents say the process is intrusive and isn’t evenly applied to all families. Host: Mary Dixon