{"id":1436,"date":"2025-10-15T11:05:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/1436\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T11:05:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:05:21","slug":"lower-merion-school-district-to-develop-new-strategic-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/1436\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Merion School District to develop new strategic plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOWER MERION \u2014 Lower Merion School District officials are planning to begin developing a new strategic plan for the district. <\/p>\n<p>District Superintendent Frank Ranelli announced the district\u2019s plans at the school board\u2019s August meeting. <\/p>\n<p>According to Ranelli, the district has contracted with a team from the Chester County Intermediate Unit to develop the new strategic plan for the district. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe already met with representatives from the CCIU to discuss the basics, timeline, expectations, planning, and things like that,\u201d Ranelli said. <\/p>\n<p>According to Ranelli, the process is expected to run from October to April of 2026 and will be well-advertised. <\/p>\n<p>A board report will be issued in May 2026. They expect to hold four public meetings, a community survey, and staff student participation. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an exciting process that\u2019ll look to shape the goals we have for the next five years,\u201d Ranelli said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOWER MERION \u2014 Lower Merion School District officials are planning to begin developing a new strategic plan for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[182,183,185,184,186,139,28],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-local-news","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}