Lawmakers revived bills that failed in past years to centralize special education and limit schools' use of restraint and seclusion.

Lawmakers reviewed another slate of education-related bills at the Legislature this week. Some of the legislation could raise ...

OUT WHEN IT COMES TO SECURING OUR SCHOOLS. SOMETHING THAT STAFF SHOULD HAVE MORE POWER TO PHYSICALLY RESTRAIN STUDENTS. THAT’S THE GOAL OF A NEW BILL IN THE UNICAMERAL. BUT OPPONENTS SAY IT GOES TOO ...

Local Connecticut school districts spent $75 million in three years sending students with disabilities to out-of-state ...

The image of a child with disabilities being shackled to prevent them from harming themselves or others sounds like an image one might see in a 19th-century illustration. But that reality soon will be ...

Informal data from the 2022-23 school year show that while the overall incidence of the use of restraint on students in Howard County public schools has decreased, more than two-thirds of the time the ...

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 use of restraint and seclusion in K-12 schools has been scrutinized and criticized for decades, including by the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Government Accountability Office, and ...

Shedding new light on Chicago Public Schools’ recent disclosure that the district violated state laws in its use of physical restraint and isolation of students, a letter from the state education ...