In Norwin School District in Westmorland County, students were watching Channel One as part of their morning announcements, but in 2019, the district mandated watching CNN10, a broadcast designed for classroom education.

By a 5-4 vote on Monday, however, the school board decided to bar the 10-minute program from being shown to students in the classrooms, a move that quickly sparked accusations of the school board being against a liberal agenda.

However, in a statement to Newsweek, the school board clarified that “the action to remove watching TV during homeroom at the Middle School unless it is either student, teacher or administrator driven [is] to allow students to socialize and interact with each other.”

“While the motion to remove watching TV during this time included CNN10 Student News, it did not include completely eliminating the program,” the statement continued.

The Norwin School District clarified that they only meant for television watching during homeroom to become more “teacher-driven.”

During the meeting on Monday, board member Christine Baverso asked that the statement “teacher-driven” be defined, and it was stated that teachers will still be able to use television, “including CNN10 Student News videos, for specific instructional purposes.”

The statement added that TV was to be used for more than just news, and it would now include announcements regarding school-driven assemblies, current events and patriotic holidays. “This continues to permit the inclusion of content to be shown from all news sources as talking points or debate,” the board wrote.

It was confirmed once more before the final vote that CNN10 could still be used by teachers at their discretion, with the option to show other videos on events such as Veterans Day or the attack on Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.

Some parents still raised their concerns about CNN10 being used in classrooms, however, as North Huntingdon mom Ashley Egan told a local news outlet that CNN10 was “feeding” her son a message that “CNN is a label you can trust.”

Egan said there were links on the CNN10 website telling students to “visit our friends on CNN.com.”

“That is not unbiased,” Egan said.

CNN10’s website states that it is “compact on-demand news broadcasts ideal for explanation seekers on the go or in the classroom.”

Newsweek reached out to the American Federation of Teachers for additional comment but did not hear back in time for publication.