April 22, 2008 11:38AM 

# No District for Fishermen 

By [David Boaz](https://www.cato.org/people/david-boaz) 

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The Washington *Examiner* [reports](http://www.examiner.com/a-1353132~D_C__to_pay__1_75M_to_prevent_lawsuit_over_alleged_schools_fraud.html) on how carefully your taxpayer dollars are spent by both federal and local governments:

> The District of Columbia has agreed to pay $1.75 million to head off a lawsuit alleging that the city bilked the federal government out of money to educate children who didn’t exist, The Examiner has learned.
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> For decades, District schools took in millions of dollars in grants to educate the children of migrant farmworkers and fishermen. But, as first reported by The Examiner in August, a 2005 audit discovered there were no such children in the system.

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