Jennifer Brown’s kids were kicked out of school. Not for anything they did wrong. Not for anything she did wrong. But simply because someone reported that she was sitting in a running car in her driveway when the bus came to pick the kids up for school.

She was suspected of lying about her address to get her kids into the highly-rated Penn-Trafford schools outside of Pittsburgh. The district launched an investigation, and — eventually — the kids were allowed to return to school. It turns out that Jennifer Brown lives exactly where she said she lives: with her dad in Penn Township in a house built by her grandfather many decades ago.

Everything turned out okay for Jennifer Brown’s kids, but what about the rest of the region’s kids? A case like this exposes a difficult truth about our publ

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