This investigation is a collaboration between ProPublica Illinois and the Chicago Tribune. In fall 2015, Glacier Ridge Elementary School in Crystal Lake first used its Blue Room, a padded space that ...

BEAVERTON, Ore. - The Oregon Senate has unanimously passed a second bill addressing the use of so-called 'seclusion cells' in public schools. Last month, lawmakers passed a bill banning free standing ...

New federal data shows that educators are continuing to rely on restraint and seclusion to address behavior issues among students with disabilities in the nation’s schools. Nearly 102,000 students ...

Virginia’s public schools allow restraint and seclusion In 2013-14 over 6,000 students were restrained or placed in seclusion Local schools have restraint policies but take a different path to ...

School seclusion rooms are usually used as intended in Eastern Iowa school districts -- as a last resort to keep students from harming themselves or others. But not always. The Gazette found reports ...

The Government Accountability Office, the congressional watchdog agency, is urging the U.S. Department of Education to take “immediate action” to address the underreporting of restraint and seclusion ...

The U.S. Department of Education’s offices for civil rights and for special education and rehabilitative services are teaming up to “address the inappropriate use of restraint and seclusion” on ...

A Vermont judge has ordered a Rutland-area school district to release documents related to its use of restraint and seclusion of students. If upheld, the ruling could have broad implications for the ...

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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.