Members of the Fayette County Board of Education have differing opinions of whether to spend thousands of dollars and staff time verifying the residency of all students this fall. At the board’s May 24 meeting, student services director Audrey Toney reviewed the system’s efforts to make sure all enrolled students actually reside in the county. The last such process was done in 2017 with emails, phone calls and sometimes personal visits to parents to document residency; unverified students were withdrawn. Toney said 101 students out of the currently enrolled 20,008 have unverified addresses, and 1,833 address changes occurred this school year.
A measure that would have begun the verification process for all enrolled students again in July was tabled after Brian Anderson, Leonard Presberg and Scott Hollowell questioned whether the time, expense and parental time were worth it for relatively low noncompliance. Superintendent Jonathan Patterson asked that the plan be tabled for a closer examination of the policy.
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