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The Rochester mom arrested and charged with two felonies for illegally sending her kids to Greece schools at a set of thousands of dollars to Greece taxpayers was back in city court. Yolanda Miranda is charged with head larceny and gift a lying mechanism for filing. She faces the charges for sending her kids to Greece schools as an alternative of the Rochester City School District, which is the division where she lives. On her feeling into court Miranda told reporters she would do it all again. "It's for the best of my kids," Miranda said.

Since Miranda's arrest, many viewers have called or e-mailed R News and expressed fellow-feeling for her situation. Some said they felt she was unfairly being made an criterion of. "These charges haven't been raised to sensationalize this invalid or to judge any amiable of example. They are what they are because the facts may in event befitting those charges," underling region attorney Matthew Dunham said.

The Greece Central School District allowed R News to come along as it investigated this residency crate because it wanted residents to conduct it's weighty about cracking down on illicit students. New York schools assign an mediocre of $15,000 per year to drill a celibate student. School districts across the style are in the family way husky reductions in national comfort and knotty budget cuts ahead. Greece and other districts believe taxpayers should not be burdened with funding the information of students who do not exist in the district.

"We're very observant and our only intent is to permissible screw the wherewithal that they (taxpayers) give us," Patricia Ouillette, Executive Director of Student-Family Services at Rush-Henrietta said. Rush-Henrietta and East Irondequoit both arrested parents on residency linked charges as recently as conclusive year. Ouillette said hood charges are a after resort. Most districts told R News they end several steps first, including sending letters domestic to parents to proclaim them that the partition is sensible of a substitution of address. Most districts said they also press parents to re-register their children or warning lawful paperwork confirming residency in the district.

"Generally many ancestors once they are given the affidavit will arc around and say, ‘No, I dare say not. I feel I'll go someplace else,’ those are customarily folks who are not residing in the locality and they don't want further difficulties with providing communication that is not accurate on an affidavit," Ouillette said. The Greece style department said Yolanda Miranda chose her fate. R News rode with antisocial investigator Kevin Degnan as he watched Miranda's children get picked up from her Rochester domicile and driven to her mother's homeward in Greece to perceive the bus.

Miranda's mother, Mary Marshall was at Wednesday’s court appearance. "I'm not a criminal. Get out of my audacity before I have a lawsuit on you all," Marshall told reporters. Marshall has not been charged, but the Greece School District says she could be opposite misdemeanor charges for falsifying residency papers.

School officials turn handling residency cases is not easy. "It's very sinewy because everybody has a story," Ouillette said. Miranda is still in prison on $25,000 bail. She's scheduled to be back in court Friday.

Dunham said if convicted, she faces electrocution ranging from probation to seven years in prison.

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