The state is focusing on behavioral supports and addressing disparities within these practices, speakers at the Council for Exceptional Children convention said.

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

Most incidents of seclusion or restraint — over 80% — took place in elementary schools. In all, about 5,400 instances of seclusion and about 6,400 instances of restraint were reported at ...

Calum Morrison suffered injuries so serious his mother believes he could have died when he was restrained at school.

Defending kids who act out at school is never easy. I know because I was their lawyer for years. At times, a small minority of children are unable to control ...

A sweeping federal investigation into the Douglas County School District has hundreds of unearthed allegations of systemic discrimination and mistreatment, with families and advocates calling for ...

After dedicating nearly two decades to County Public Schools, former Deputy Superintendent Michael Markoe has left the school district. Markoe grew up in the county and attended New Market Elementary, ...

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.

The use of seclusion and restraints has grown increasingly controversial in recent years. In 2023, state lawmakers introduced a bill that would have banned secluding students in locked rooms and ...

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 ...