Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Krystal Emerson testified before the Maine Legislature's Education Committee about her son's experience being repeatedly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — An audit of the ...

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 ...