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Superintendent rebuts censorship claims, details corrections on student newspaper opinion about safety monitors
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Champ told the board April 2 that a Pell Mill opinion piece republished on social media was an opinion column that quoted anonymous safety monitors and that the district provided factual corrections. She denied any district censorship of the student newspaper and clarified pay and vendor arrangements for safety monitors.
Superintendent Dr. Champ told the Pelham Union Free School District Board of Education on April 2 that an opinion piece originally published in the high school student newspaper, the Pell Mill, had been reposted on local Facebook pages and prompted public questions about district oversight of student journalism and the pay and contracting of safety monitors.
Dr. Champ said the piece was an opinion column that quoted anonymous safety monitors and that the district had provided factual clarifications to the…
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