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Board debates nonresident tuition policy as enrollment and homeschool numbers shift
Summary
Board members discussed policy 6.204 on nonresident student tuition, the district's declining enrollment, homeschooling growth and the potential for a district virtual school; staff and principals described trade-offs between vetting nonresident students and funding risks from attendance drops.
Cannon County Board of Education members on Sept. 11 took up a lengthy discussion of board policy 6.204, which governs tuition and enrollment for nonresident students. The conversation ranged from the policy's original purpose'to deter transfers of students with severe disciplinary histories'to broader district concerns about falling enrollment, homeschool growth and the feasibility of a virtual program.
The current policy, enacted in 2022, includes a tuition charge that one speaker said was reintroduced "because we were getting kids that were getting kicked out of Rutherford County or Warren County, and they were coming here." That speaker characterized the fee as a tool to reduce enrollment of students coming from other districts with significant behavior histories.
A school administrator told the board the high school…
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