The state education board advanced regulations Tuesday to further restrict controversial “timeout” and seclusion policies in ...

State lawmakers have tried in recent years to better monitor and oversee seclusion, which means shutting a student inside a room, and restraint, which means physically restraining a student. But a ...

The new regulations would address longstanding concerns among special education parents and advocates about the use of ...

A week after voting to uphold the firing of McAuliffe International School Principal Kurt Dennis, the school board vice president shared some of the district's findings. Vicente Arenas hears from ...

Physical restraints and seclusion rooms have been used on students hundreds of times in New Brunswick since the start of the school year, district data show. But most of those instances involve repeat ...

But the couple’s initial excitement that lawmakers may move to end seclusion — a behavioral intervention used to isolate students from their peers, sometimes in a small, padded room — was ...

The use of seclusion and restraints has grown increasingly controversial in recent years. In 2023, state lawmakers introduced ...

who said continually changing best practices now discourage seclusion — in which a student is involuntarily confined alone in a room or area. “The use of seclusion can cause or worsen mental ...

“There's a variety of different definitions for what seclusion is, but generally it's recognized as involuntarily confining a patient alone in a locked room or restricted area until their conflict ...

State lawmakers have tried in recent years to better monitor and oversee seclusion, which means shutting a student inside a room, and restraint, which means physically restraining a student.

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters No one knows how many Colorado students are shut inside rooms, alone, at school. But Riley ...