Edmonton Public Schools is continuing to phase out the use of seclusion rooms, spaces once used to isolate students during crisis situations, in favour of more supportive, inclusive approaches.

Advocacy groups rallied at the state capitol on Thursday to oppose an amendment in the Senate education policy bill that carves out exceptions for the practice of "seclusion," where students with ...

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 ...

MIDDLETOWN — The use of restraint and seclusion in Middletown Public School rose 13% in the 2023-24 academic year compared to the year before, according to the latest state Department of ...

Colorado lawmakers rejected a bill Wednesday that initially set out to ban seclusion in schools, which is the practice of shutting a student in a room alone. Lawmakers said seclusion is a ...

The state education board advanced regulations Tuesday to further restrict controversial "timeout" and seclusion policies in schools, the next step in a years-long effort to reduce the use of the ...

The new proposed regulations attempt to further clarify the distinction between a timeout, which is voluntary and allowed under state law, and seclusion, which is involuntary and prohibited.

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters No one knows how many Colorado students are shut inside rooms, alone, at school. But Riley ...

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

Seclusion is a protocol used in hospital settings when a patient is displaying unsafe behaviors. Many organizations, including U.S. health care accrediting body the Joint Commission, say that it ...

SALT LAKE CITY — When Stephanie Merrill read the first substitute of a bill that would ban seclusion in Utah schools, she was “completely overjoyed.” “It took me totally by surprise ...

Salem-Keizer School District staff put Anastasia Wagner in a seclusion room or restrained her 108 times in one semester. Anastasia, 12, is on the autism spectrum and has severe brain issues.