No one knows how many Colorado students are shut inside rooms, alone, at school. But Riley Ellis-Beach knows that it happened to her son. He was a small kindergartener, barely 30 pounds, with big ...

Calling the practice inhumane, unethical, and akin to solitary confinement, opponents of secluding children alone in separate rooms in response to their behavior testified for hours Wednesday in ...

Seclusion is a protocol used in hospital settings when a patient is displaying unsafe behaviors. Many organizations, including U.S. health care accrediting body the Joint Commission, say that it ...

SAINT PAUL, Minn. — Advocacy groups rallied at the state capitol on Thursday to oppose an amendment in the Senate education policy bill that carves out exceptions for the practice of "seclusion," ...

SOUTH JORDAN, Utah (KUTV) — A South Jordan mother, concerned about her son with autism, is raising alarm over the use of "seclusion rooms" in public education. "Seclusion rooms" can be found in every ...

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 ...

PITTSBURGH — In Pennsylvania, Bennett Solomond wants to go to school. School is where art class is. In art, he has painted a vibrant tiger in oranges and blues, his high school’s mascot. School is ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Wake County schools reported 1,802 restraint or seclusion cases in 2024–25. Disabled, Black and elementary students face ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. STILLWATER, Okla. (KFOR) — News 4 requested ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (KLFY) — Louisiana disability advocates and state education leaders say long-awaited updates to the state’s seclusion and restraint law will bring stronger safeguards, clearer ...

The special education classroom in Forest Hills Elementary is decorated from floor to ceiling with reminders for students: "what zone are you in?" one sign reads, with characters from the Disney Pixar ...

The U.S. Department of Education should increase its attention on preventing the underreporting of restraint and seclusion problems involving students, ensuring parents understand special education ...