The Keeping All Students Safe Act aims to establish a consistent national framework to address harmful practices.

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Principal Tom Drake holds the door open for a student at Crossett Brook Middle School in Duxbury last year. Schools in the Harwood Union Unified School District, including Crossett Brook, have come ...

BOISE — Idaho schools will no longer be permitted to use restraint and seclusion as forms of discipline. Gov. Brad Little has signed a bill that bars teachers and school staff from using the aversive ...

Updated January 16, 2024 at 10:32 AM ET 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 ...

The 10-year-old was dragged down a school hallway by two school staffers. A camera captured him being forced into a small, ...

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.

Louisiana's updated seclusion and restraint law, Act 479, will provide stronger safeguards, clearer communication, and stricter oversight for schools responding to behavioral crises, including ...

Members of both houses of Congress last week introduced legislation to regulate the use of restraint and seclusion on students in schools, and to require that any use of such practices be reported to ...

The Mental Health Commission looked at the use of practices such as seclusion, physical restraint and mechanical restraint ...

Idaho schools have a mixture of policies on restraint and seclusion, a practice that includes closing children in small rooms to address misbehavior. Gov. Brad Little signed a bill that bars teachers ...

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.