District of Columbia Court of Appeals December 13, 2001, 96-AA-326 (Kirkpatrick v. District of Columbia Public Schools)

REID, Associate Judge:

This case, which comes to us after three remands to the agency at the request of the parties, involves a challenge to a decision of the District of Columbia Public Schools (“the DCPS”) requiring a non-resident mother to pay tuition for her daughter, even though, through a mutual oral agreement made at the time of their divorce, the mother shared joint custody of her