Saying tens of millions of children are at risk, two U.S. senators and 10 members of the House of Representatives, all but one of them from Illinois, on Wednesday urged the nation’s top education official to tell schools to stop putting students in seclusion rooms.
They also asked Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to issue federal guidance to prohibit physical restraints that restrict breathing and instead promote “evidence-based alternatives” for dealing with challenging behavior that don’t involve hands-on contact.
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Letter urging Betsy DeVos to tell schools to stop putting students in seclusion rooms (PDF)
Letter urging Betsy DeVos to tell schools to stop putting students in seclusion rooms (Text)