The new regulations would address longstanding concerns among special education parents and advocates about the use of ...

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

There's been growing national attention on so-called timeout rooms in recent years, as families of students with disabilities ...

One time, she said she showed up to school to find her son in the room with the door shut. His special education teacher was peeking at him through a window, she said. "He looked like a wild animal ...

In 2022, she also asked other education officials appearing before the committee for data on restraint and seclusion room use, and was told the information wasn’t available. She got the same answer ...

A week after voting to uphold the firing of McAuliffe International School Principal Kurt Dennis, the school board vice president shared some of the district's findings. Vicente Arenas hears from ...

The new regulations clarify that timeouts are voluntary, where students can opt to go to a private room outside of their classroom as a behavioral regulation tool. Seclusion, meanwhile ...

One of the points he made during Tuesday's meeting — which is reflected in the new regulations — is that the department needs to make a stronger distinction between "timeout" and "seclusion." The new ...