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Kingsport schools taking tuition, zoning applications

Published February 8th, 2010 | 0 Comments

KINGSPORT — Kingsport City Schools will be accepting zoning and tuition applications for students in grades K-12 now through April 30.

Parents who would like to request their child attend a different city school outside the school zone their student is expected to attend must apply for a zoning exception.

Parents of students who are not legal residents of the city must submit a tuition application to attend a Kingsport public school.

Parents or legal guardians must apply annually for their child’s tuition and zoning status, even if they attended a Kingsport school in 2009-2010.

Applications are available online at the Kingsport City Schools Web site: www.k12k.com. Paper copies will be available at the KCS administrative office at 1701 E. Center St.

The following are excerpts from the Kingsport Board of Education’s policies and procedures for zoning and tuition:

• Parents or legal guardians must apply annually for their child’s tuition and zoning status.

• Students who are not legal residents of the city of Kingsport shall pay tuition charges as approved annually by the Board of Education. Failure to pay tuition will disqualify a student’s application for the next year.

• Tuition students are accepted and zoning exceptions are granted only if current enrollment permits.

• The system does not provide bus transportation to either tuition or zoning-exemption students.

Criteria for zoning exceptions are as follows:

• Documented medical reasons.

• Child care availability.

• An expected move to a different zone.

• Specialized school programs.

• A fifth- or an eighth-grade student with a previous zoning exception.

• A student whose family has moved to a different zone after Nov. 1.

• Documented justifications related to the child’s specific educational experience.

The school system utilizes the following order when placing students:

• Zoning exception reapplications.

• Tuition reapplications for school employees working at the requested school.

• New zoning exception applications.

• Tuition reapplications.

• New tuition applications for school employees working at the requested school,

• New tuition applications for system and city employees.

• New tuition applications for out-of-district residents.

For more information call Tyler Fleming, director of student services, at 378-2155.

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