District apologizes for editing meeting video

    January 15, 2009

    By: Peter Crimmins

    The Lower Merion School District has apologized for editing a video recording of a heated School Board meeting. The Board had posted a video online with 5 minutes of footage removed, when a community member disrupted discussion of a redistricting plan that has divided the community. WHYY’s Peter Crimmins reports.

    By: Peter Crimmins
    pcrimmins@whyy.org

    The Lower Merion School District has apologized for editing a video recording of a heated School Board meeting. The Board had posted a video online with 5 minutes of footage removed, when a community member disrupted discussion of a redistricting plan that has divided the community. WHYY’s Peter Crimmins reports.

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