The use of restraint and seclusion in K-12 schools has been scrutinized and criticized for decades, including by the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Government Accountability Office, and ...

(The Center Square) − An audit of the Louisiana Department of Education’s seclusion and restraint practices for students with disabilities reveals underreporting and compliance with state laws. Data ...

Every year, hundreds of Louisiana students with disabilities are physically restrained or confined to “seclusion” rooms in public schools, according to self-reported school data. The practices are ...

A Missouri school district focused on special education restrains and secludes its students excessively and improperly, in “gross violation” of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a U.S. Department ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — An audit of the ...

Use of restraint and seclusion is lower in New Hampshire schools than it was before the pandemic, according to state data results from the 2021-2022 school year. On Thursday, Department of Education ...

“Numerous examples exist in which the use of restraint and seclusion has been reduced without major expenditures when facility administrators publicly commit to doing so,” according to From Restraint ...

Photos show blood splattered across a small bare-walled room in a North Carolina school where a second grader repeatedly punched himself in the face in the fall of 2019, according to the child’s mom.

While physically restraining or separating students from their classmates should only be used as a "last resort" by schools, it still happened thousands of times at schools across the state in 2022-23 ...

The Frederick County Board of Education is scheduled to vote on Wednesday on awarding a $145,000 contract to a Boston-based consulting firm that would conduct an audit of the district's special ...