Principal Tom Drake holds the door open for a student at Crossett Brook Middle School in Duxbury last year. Schools in the Harwood Union Unified School District, including Crossett Brook, have come ...

Hamden Public Schools reported 444 restraint and seclusion incidents involving 51 students during the 2023–24 school year– a nearly 60% spike from the year before, according to state Department of ...

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For weeks, the second grader spent class breaks at his southern Vermont elementary school in a room called the “crash pad” — an 8-by-10-foot space with bare, padded walls and a beanbag chair in the ...

The U.S. Department of Education issued a publication Tuesday outlining principles for educators, parents and other stakeholders to consider when developing or refining policies to support positive ...

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 ...

BELOIT - School District of Beloit Executive Director of Pupil Services Emily Pelz gave the board an update on the use of physical restraint and seclusion in schools at the Tuesday evening board ...

Chicago Public Schools has repeatedly violated state law over the use of physical restraints of students, “overwhelmingly failed” to train its staff properly and continued the practice despite ...

CADDO PARISH, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A new policy that will be implemented in school districts across Louisiana could drastically change how students with exceptionalities are treated in times of crisis.

CHEYENNE – The Laramie County School District 1 Board of Trustees voted unanimously to pass an amended “Seclusion, Restraint, Forcible Physical Contact and Corporal Punishment” policy during their ...