The practice of secluding or restraining children when they get agitated has long been a controversial practice in public schools. Now, new data show that it's more common than previously understood, ...

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 ...

Use of restraint and seclusion is lower in New Hampshire schools than it was before the pandemic, according to state data results from the 2021-2022 school year. On Thursday, Department of Education ...

Updated January 16, 2024 at 10:32 AM ET Photos show blood splattered across a small bare-walled room in a North Carolina school where a second grader repeatedly punched himself in the face in the fall ...

BOISE — Idaho schools will no longer be permitted to use restraint and seclusion as forms of discipline. Gov. Brad Little has signed a bill that bars teachers and school staff from using the aversive ...

Photos show blood splattered across a small bare-walled room in a North Carolina school where a second grader repeatedly punched himself in the face in the fall of 2019, according to the child’s mom.

Louisiana's updated seclusion and restraint law, Act 479, will provide stronger safeguards, clearer communication, and ...

The law also outlines how and when "seclusion" is to be implemented - as a last resort and only after all other positive ...

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Photos show blood splattered across a small bare-walled room in a North Carolina school where a second grader repeatedly punched himself in the face in the fall of 2019, according to the child’s mom.

Idaho schools have a mixture of policies on restraint and seclusion, a practice that includes closing children in small rooms to address misbehavior. Gov. Brad Little signed a bill that bars teachers ...