{"id":305214,"date":"2026-10-12T18:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305214\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T18:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:30:16","slug":"lower-merion-school-district-superintendent-to-step-down-in-april-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305214\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Merion School District superintendent to step down in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:WPVI;\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"WPVI\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"268\" height=\"100\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/aol_wpvi_878.png\"\/><\/a>Wed, October 7, 2026 at 10:14 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>The superintendent of the Lower Merion School District announced Wednesday he will be stepping down from the post next spring.<\/p>\n<p>The superintendent of the Lower Merion School District announced Wednesday he will be stepping down from the post next spring.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Frank Ranelli said in a letter to the district that he will be resigning his position as of April 30, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am sure people will question why; and simply, this position is just not a good match for me,&#8221; Ranelli wrote in a statement posted to the <a data-ylk=\"elmt:article-inline-link;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lmsd.org\/about-lmsd\/newsroom\/article\/board\/district-information\/post\/dr-ranelli-announces-intent-to-resign-as-of-april-30-2027\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">district&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2fd367a6-14d5-4a7c-a287-d40af0e0c7e7.png\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2fd367a6-14d5-4a7c-a287-d40af0e0c7e7.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Frank Ranelli LMSD.org<\/p>\n<p>Ranelli became superintendent in April 2025.<\/p>\n<p>His announcement comes amid an ongoing dispute between the district and some parents over its technology policy. Some parents have complained their children were spending too much time on screens.<\/p>\n<p>A group of parents sued the district in August, alleging it had <a data-ylk=\"elmt:article-inline-link;\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/lower-merion-schools-begin-new-chromebook-policy-district-leaders-face-federal-lawsuit\/19805455\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">violated their parental rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wed, October 7, 2026 at 10:14 PM UTC The superintendent of the Lower Merion School District announced Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[183,185,184,186],"class_list":["post-305214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","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\/305214","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=305214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}