CHILDREN with special needs have been physically restrained in schools more than 460 times since the beginning of the academic year, with a number of incidents resulting in injury. New guidelines ...

The sign for St. Johns County School District's administrative building. ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. – The St. Johns County School District secured a resolution agreement with the U.S. Department of ...

The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) received a total of 461 such reports in the first five months following the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Mexico lawmakers are taking another pass at two measures that have stalled in previous years but that, supporters say, are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. OSHKOSH – The Vel Phillips Middle School administrator who was at the center of a Jan. 10 incident in which a 13-year-old student ...

Wake County schools reported 1,802 restraint or seclusion cases in 2024–25. Disabled, Black and elementary students face disproportionate intervention rates. Wake pledges de-escalation training and ...

FORT SMITH -- No felony charges will be filed in two 2024 incidents at Euper Lane Elementary School that involved an employee restraining a 7-year-old child due to insufficient evidence. The incident ...

Across the country, the use of seclusion and restraint in schools is longstanding — and controversial. Educators say it is occasionally necessary to hold students down or confine them to separate ...

Washington state lawmakers are once again debating a bill that would further restrict the use of restraint and isolation in schools—an issue that has sparked passionate responses from educators, ...

The Wichita school district will no longer use seclusion as punishment for students and will use restraints only as a last resort, according to changes in its emergency intervention policies after a ...

Every year, hundreds of Louisiana students with disabilities are physically restrained or confined to “seclusion” rooms in public schools, according to self-reported school data. The practices are ...