[julius_geezer]

School districts in New Jersey aggressively police residency, using detective at times, though I don't know that it has ever come to the point of a criminal case there. My impression, from an article or two in the NY Times years ago, is that this is not usually a racial matter there.

A more accurate headline might be "Mother Jailed for Providing False Affidavits in Effort to Put Children in Better School."

[david2777]

That seems kind of odd to me, here in Hawaii they split the school districts up on each island (the island I'm on has 9). The school I would normally have to attend is terrible, but over here you can simply apply for an exemption, which they almost always grant, and go to almost any school on the island. Are you not allowed to do that in states such as New Jersey?