Federal officials have long warned that restraint and seclusion in schools can be dangerous and traumatizing for children, but school districts often fail to report incidents as required by law.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.