Teachers at a special-education school in Contra Costa County will undergo extensive training and make other improvements on how they handle students with severe behavioral and emotional challenges, ...

Jul. 26—In her work as New Mexico's special education ombud, Michelle Tregembo often hears from families whose children were restrained or placed in seclusion at school. Sometimes, the incident of ...

District leaders and community members spent much of the fall debating the use of seclusion rooms in schools across New Hanover County. As that debate raged in public, it appears the use of these ...

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced last week that the Davis Joint Unified School District in California has entered into a resolution agreement to ensure that ...

Student aggression in the classroom can spin out of control quickly and test educators’ ability to de-escalate in the moment. But a student's actions or demeanor that usually precipitate such behavior ...

The Idaho State Department of Education is surveying school districts across the state about their use of restraint and seclusion, following a Statesman investigation into the practice. The survey — ...

DENVER — The Denver Police Department opened an investigation into a monitored seclusion room at McAuliffe International School on Friday after Denver school board Vice President Auon'tai Anderson ...

The Madison Metropolitan School District is working to reduce seclusion and restraint incidents after data showed that nearly ...

CEDAR FALLS — Rules governing the use of physical restraint and seclusion in schools were discussed Wednesday at a Central Rivers Area Education Agency conference room by a group largely made up of ...

Although it’s unfortunate it took an investigation by the Department of Justice to steer the Cedar Rapids Community School District in the right direction, we applaud the a settlement agreement ...

Idaho schools have a mixture of policies on restraint and seclusion, a practice that includes closing children in small rooms to address misbehavior. Gov. Brad Little signed a bill that bars teachers ...

Alabama schools reported students being physically restrained by school employees thousands of times -- just in one year. The most recent data is old, from the 2017-18 school year, but it is the most ...