Only 313 of Wake’s 160,000 students accounted for all of the acts of seclusion and restraint. Elementary students, Black students and students with disabilities accounted for the majority of 959 ...

Seclusion and restraint are not supposed to be punishments for misbehavior; instead, they are practices intended to deescalate a situation and stop a student from harming themselves or others.

A small school district in central Michigan has agreed to end its practice of seclusion in a settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice.

Hazel Park had the most instances of seclusion, 272, recorded in the second quarter of the 2023-24 school year, out of any district in the state, following by Lincoln Park Schools and Genesee ...

Wake has paid $900,000 in settlements. McKenna said the district has known for years that there are concerns about how the seclusion and restraint data has been reported in North Carolina’s ...

The U.S. Department of Justice investigated Montcalm Area ISD over its use of seclusion, restraints of children with ...

DOJ investigates reported "seclusion and restraint" in Douglas County schools 03:05. A sweeping federal investigation into the Douglas County School District has hundreds of unearthed allegations ...

Hundreds of Louisiana students with disabilities are physically restrained or confined to “seclusion” rooms each year — yet the state does not monitor those practices, an audit found.