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Homeless Mother Faces Jail Time for Sending Her Kid to an “Out of District” School - TIME NewsFeed

Homeless Mother Faces Jail Time for Sending Her Kid to an “Out of District” School

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Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images

Tanya McDowell is facing a possible 20-year jail sentence for sending her kid to the “wrong” school. Even, though, technically, she has no fixed address.

In addition to sending her kid to school in Norwalk, Conn., McDowell will also have to pay $15,000 to the city for “stealing her son's education.” She initially used the address of a babysitter to enroll him in the school.

(More on TIME.com: See how America's homeless are living in cars and campers.)

The Stamford Advocate says that McDowell herself “divides her time



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