by kids1stadvocac | Mar 11, 2025 | State
The Press Democrat The student was only 4 years old when he was suspended for the first time. He was in a transitional kindergarten class, a preparatory year that helps students develop fundamental social and emotional skills. By the time he was 5, the boy had been...
by kids1stadvocac | Mar 11, 2025 | Restraint & Seclusion, State
The 74 Two years ago, Minnesota outlawed most suspensions and all disciplinary seclusion of very young pupils in schools. An outgrowth of an effort to curb police abuses in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, it was a change that advocates for children with...
by kids1stadvocac | Mar 11, 2025 | State
clevelandbanner.com What would you do if you learned your disabled child was “informally removed” from their classes at school? How would you deal with the issue, and what steps would you take to fix the situation? On Wednesday, the Tennessee’s Comptroller’s Office of...
by kids1stadvocac | Mar 4, 2025 | State Archive
Newsweek A Republican lawmaker in Oklahoma cited a Bible verse as he argued against a bill seeking to ban corporal punishment being used on disabled students in schools. State Senator Shane Jett quoted several verses from the Book of Proverbs on Tuesday as he argued...
by kids1stadvocac | Feb 25, 2025 | Restraint & Seclusion, State Archive
FOX news 13 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,” added her husband, Craig Merrill, in a recent interview with FOX 13 News. “I thought,...
