Advocates say the numbers alone fail to give a meaningful or accurate account of schools' use of restraint and seclusion. The latest state data on seclusion and restraints in New Hampshire schools ...

Congressional Democrats will introduce a bill to make it illegal for any school receiving federal funding to use seclusion or dangerous restraints on students. The Keeping All Students Safe Act would ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Illinois lawmakers had the support to ban schools from ...

ALBANY — Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages has introduced legislation to restrict the use of physical restraints and ban seclusion in schools following a Times Union investigation that uncovered overuse ...

Virginia’s public schools allow restraint and seclusion In 2013-14 over 6,000 students were restrained or placed in seclusion Local schools have restraint policies but take a different path to ...

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A teacher asks her students to take out a pencil for a pop quiz, but one child won’t pick up his pencil. The teacher repeats her request. The child refuses. What happens next—what sort of discipline ...

An attempt to ban the use of methods to physically restrain schoolchildren or confine them in seclusion rooms has failed in this year's legislature. But legislators said they will work to bring a new ...

Strapped to a chair at the arms and legs, a hood pulled over your head. For Virginia parents, a state investigation's findings earlier this year on the treatment of immigrant teens in a detention ...

Fairfax County Public Schools has settled a lawsuit with parents and disability rights activists over the district's use of seclusion and restraint against students with special needs, according to a ...