The U.S. Department of Education should increase its attention on preventing the underreporting of restraint and seclusion problems involving students, ensuring parents understand special education ...

(The Center Square) − An audit of the Louisiana Department of Education’s seclusion and restraint practices for students with disabilities reveals underreporting and compliance with state laws. Data ...

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 ...

The audit also called into question the state's data on these practices, which schools self-report. Last school year, more than 70% of school districts and charter schools reported zero incidents of ...

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This story was originally published on K-12 Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily K-12 Dive newsletter. Seclusion of students in schools would be prohibited and certain ...

While physically restraining or separating students from their classmates should only be used as a "last resort" by schools, it still happened thousands of times at schools across the state in 2022-23 ...

The Frederick County Board of Education is scheduled to vote on Wednesday on awarding a $145,000 contract to a Boston-based consulting firm that would conduct an audit of the district's special ...

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 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — An audit of the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) reveals instances where students with disabilities were subjected to physical restraint and seclusion. The ...