In March 2023, Caroline Lerum testified to Connecticut legislators in favor of a bill that would have limited when school staff could physically restrain students and banned them from secluding ...

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 ...

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 practice of secluding or restraining children when they get agitated has long been a controversial practice in public schools. Now, new data show that it's more common than previously understood, ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – A Senate committee report released Wednesday raises concerns over whether parents are informed when their children are strapped down, physically restrained or placed in seclusion in ...

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.

Michigan educators reported using seclusion and restraint — potentially traumatic maneuvers meant only for emergencies — on students with disabilities more last academic year than almost any other ...

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.

Hazel Park Schools administrators unveiled a plan at a board meeting Monday evening to better address what leaders acknowledged are increasing instances of restraint and seclusion at a school for ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction released a new report Tuesday, showing a decrease in the number of incidents in Wisconsin public schools using seclusion or ...

Louisiana's Act 479, which sets crisis intervention training requirements for district employees, has been adopted by the ...