Fayette

County students who have not presented

documentation of their residency will be denied

admission to school Jan. 5, according to Stuart

Bennett, assistant superintendent of curriculum

and instruction.

High

school students will not be given second semester

schedules until they comply.

The

warning comes after four months of checking the

residency status of the district's 19,000

students. Utility bills were checked and copies

were made for the students' files. Bennett

estimated that there are just under 200

non-compliant students.

"We

have some citizens who are refusing to comply,

stating that it is an invasion of their

privacy," Bennett told the Board of

Education Monday night. But the overall response

has been overwhelmingly positive, he said.

"Most students replied immediately, Bennett

said. "Right when this started, we had a

burst of withdrawals from the schools."

But

the actual reasons for withdrawing from school

were not always clear, he said.

The

bottom line is the $5,800 it costs to educate a

child in the Fayette County School System. Every

non-resident student costs the taxpayer, Bennett

said.

In

other business, the board was briefed by Bobby

Stephens, a consultant from Educational

Performance Evaluation and Management Systems of

America Inc. on creating a unified salary scale

and compensation study for its classified

employees. He has conducted more than 150

interviews with individuals and small groups of

employees in order to understand their concerns

and get a feel for the duties they perform.

Final

recommendations will be made to the board in

March on how the jobs are ranked and the rate of

pay assigned to each position based on the

"fair market dollar," Stephens said.

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