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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

OSHKOSH – The Vel Phillips Middle School administrator who was at the center of a Jan. 10 incident in which a 13-year-old student was handcuffed and pinned under a school resource officer for more ...

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 ...

FORT SMITH -- Two staff members are now administrators in charge at a Fort Smith elementary school in the wake of a mid-January incidents over photos showing what some parents say is improper ...

Department of Education Secretary (DOE) Arne Duncan is encouraging all states to review how their schools use restraints and seclusion techniques on students. If appropriate, states should develop or ...

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 ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. — A school district in Vermont is not required to release documents pertaining to the use of student restraint and seclusion in its schools, the Vermont Supreme Court ruled, ...