A family is fighting a $105,000 tuition bill from Chicago Public Schools after the district determined three of the children did not live in the city while attending selective enrollment schools.
The CPS inspector general’s office called the case “especially egregious” in itsDr. Edward Huang, an infectious disease specialist, and Kim Chhay, who has worked as a hospital pharmacist, filed a complaint in Cook County court last month asking a judge to reverse a Chicago Board of Education decision to seek tuition reimbursement and kick their son out of his West Rogers Park classical school.
In their court paperwork, Huang and Chhay say they resided together in Skokie until 2010, when Chhay moved in with her brother and his family at their house in Chicago’s Sauganash neighborhood because of “tension” in the Huang home. Chhay says three of her children followed her to her brother’s house and lived there for varying amounts of time between 2011 and 2019.
Huang, meanwhile, continued to reside in Skokie, and purchased a home in Chicago’s Norwood Park East neighborhood in the summer of 2019. He said the family discovered water damage at the Norwood Park home soon after they moved in, so they temporarily decamped to the Skokie home in September 2019, court records show.
Larson said an investigator handed an interview letter to Chhay outside the Skokie home in January 2020. She reportedly had three children with her at the time. Investigators did not see Chhay at her brother’s Sauganash house during surveillance, according to the hearing report. “In reviewing Ms. Chhay’s actions for the relevant time periods to try and determine her intent as to residency, what stands out is the span of time that she used the address for school enrollments, clearly a temporary address as it was her brother’s home, and her failure to establish any permanency in Chicago,” the hearing officer wrote. “Skokie remained the family’s hub and permanent residence.”
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