{"id":270705,"date":"2026-08-23T13:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T13:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270705\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T13:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T13:22:15","slug":"lower-merion-school-board-approves-new-technology-policy-for-students-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270705\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Merion School Board approves new technology policy for students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Lower Merion School Board approved a new classroom technology policy for students on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Starting this school year, students in kindergarten through second grade will not receive individual devices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tech use will be limited in grades three and four, with one-to-one devices starting in fifth grade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The district is also adding a monitoring tool for teachers, as well as expanded website controls for parents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Parents will also get expanded controls to restrict website categories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">However, they cannot opt out of tech tools entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lower Merion School Board approved a new classroom technology policy for students on Monday night. Starting this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[9381,183,185,184,186,87342,3315,114081],"class_list":["post-270705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-kindergarten","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-lower-merion-school-board","tag-students","tag-website-categories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270705","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=270705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}