{"id":214698,"date":"2026-06-09T16:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/214698\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T16:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:27:07","slug":"lower-merion-school-board-policy-committee-holds-reading-of-newest-tech-proposal-over-use-of-laptops-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/214698\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Merion School Board Policy Committee holds reading of newest tech proposal over use of laptops for students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LOWER MERION TWP., Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; The Lower Merion School Board&#8217;s Policy Committee held a reading of its revised tech proposal on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The new proposal establishes clearer grade-level expectations regarding the use of laptops for students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">RELATED: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/lower-merion-school-leaders-propose-changing-technology-policy-debate-continues\/19084301\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amid intense discussion, Lower Merion School leaders propose changing technology policy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">For months, <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/chromebook-controversy-lower-merion-pa-parents-ask-opt-children-using-devices-247\/18930127\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">many parents have voiced concerns<\/a> about the amount of screen time in school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The suggested plan will go through a second reading before the full board votes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">If approved, the changes would take effect in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOWER MERION TWP., Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; The Lower Merion School Board&#8217;s Policy Committee held a reading of its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[94055,183,185,184,186],"class_list":["post-214698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-94055","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214698","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=214698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}