The district requested $4 million in already-approriated funds from its school board last week to install the devices in 327 ...

This article was originally published in Maine Morning Star. Krystal Emerson never imagined her son would spend his days at school being forcibly moved against his will by school staff and shut in an ...

A Connecticut school district is planning to expand its blue, or seclusion rooms, in the next fiscal year, drawing concerns about how education money is spent as well as transparency in how often they ...

The seclusion room practice was banned in 2023 for grades K-3, but Minnesota lawmakers are now looking to allow it up to sixth grade with parental permission. Erin Sandsmark, executive director of ...

Arizona restricts school use of seclusion rooms to discipline disabled children. April 8, 2013 — -- Arizona Gov. Janice Brewer has signed a law providing strong new restrictions on the use of ...

PORTLAND, Ore. - A Portland school for students with special needs still has a so-called seclusion area despite the fact a new Oregon law requires they be removed. Seclusion cells or rooms are where ...

No one knows how many Colorado students are shut inside rooms, alone, at school. But Riley Ellis-Beach knows that it happened to her son. He was a small kindergartener, barely 30 pounds, with big ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The second largest school district in Iowa improperly and repeatedly shut students with disabilities in seclusion rooms and restrained them in violation of the federal ...

New Brunswick's ombud says Restigouche Hospital Centre staff have been restraining and secluding psychiatric patients ...

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's ombudswoman released a damning report Tuesday on the province's use of seclusion rooms and physical restraints in adult psychiatric facilities, practices she said ...

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's ombudswoman released a damning report Tuesday on the province's use of seclusion rooms and physical restraints in adult psychiatric facilities, practices she said ...