New research showed public schools across the country intentionally evade federal reporting requirements by calling seclusion rooms something else. Students with disabilities, he found, were four ...

MIDDLETOWN — The use of restraint and seclusion in Middletown Public School rose 13% in the 2023-24 academic year compared to the year before, according to the latest state Department of Education ...

This story was originally published on K-12 Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily K-12 Dive newsletter. Seclusion of students in schools would be prohibited and certain ...

The Missouri House of Representatives gave first approval Tuesday to a long-developing bill spurred in part by a 2019 Columbia Public Schools controversy. House Bill 387 would prohibit Missouri public ...

Louisiana Act 479 requires all public schools in the state to install, operate, and maintain cameras in all self-contained classrooms that record both audio and video, and if a camera is out of ...

CADDO PARISH, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A new policy that will be implemented in school districts across Louisiana could drastically change how students with exceptionalities are treated in times of crisis.

Incidents of seclusion -- when a student is alone and prevented from leaving an enclosed space -- more than doubled last year in Wake County schools, new data shows. Wake County Public School System ...

ST. LOUIS — The Department of Justice said the Special School District of St. Louis County violated the Americans with Disabilities Act through its restraint and seclusion programs. According to a ...

Montcalm Area Intermediate School District agreed to stop using seclusion against students with disabilities in a settlement with the U.S Department of Justice. Montcalm denies discriminating against ...

A new report from Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid includes photos of seclusion rooms in Minnesota schools. In this image, the man demonstrating the room is 5 feet, 11 inches tall, Legal Aid said. When it ...

Louisiana schools would have to install cameras in special-education classrooms and stop putting students who have outbursts in separate “seclusion” rooms under a proposed law that advocates say ...