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, ...

FAIRFAX, Va. — There are a few weeks left before Fairfax County Public Schools must complete certain requirements as the result of a new settlement over the use of seclusion and physical restraint on ...

Lawmakers around the country pledged to seek reforms in response to a sweeping Hearst Newspapers investigation into the use of restraint and seclusion in schools, including crafting new state ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Each seclusion room in New Hanover County Schools is a small, well-lit and ventilated room lined with blue padding. The rooms are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 — ...

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 ...

(THE CONVERSATION) “Jessica,” the adoptive mother of a third grade student, was shocked when she discovered that her daughter had spent over 100 hours locked in a room alone at her North Carolina ...

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