by kids1stadvocac | May 5, 2026 | Federal
Mother Jones In March 2024, the Food and Drug Administration under President Joe Biden introduced a new rule that would have banned, after decades, the use of electric shocks on disabled children as a form of punishment. A ban on forcibly shocking kids—which the...
by kids1stadvocac | Apr 21, 2026 | Federal, Restraint & Seclusion
The Conversation “Jessica,” the adoptive mother of a third-grade student, was shocked when she discovered that her daughter had spent over 100 hours locked in a room alone at her North Carolina public school. School staff locked the child in a room by herself after...
by kids1stadvocac | Apr 7, 2026 | Restraint & Seclusion, State
Inside Investigator On May 20, 2024, teachers and administrators at Hazardville Memorial School in Enfield called the police on a five-year-old in kindergarten. The call to 911 was placed at 9:57 am. By that time, teachers and special education instructors had been...
by kids1stadvocac | Feb 17, 2026 | Restraint & Seclusion, State
Yahoo News Members of the House Education Committee on Monday advanced a bill that would refine definitions of allowable physical discipline practices in public schools, limit those practices, and require expanded training for K-12 school personnel. House Bill 120,...
by kids1stadvocac | Feb 17, 2026 | State
The Tennessean Savannah Coffman spent the chaotic hours after her son’s arrest trying desperately to get to him. That morning, her then-15-year-old son, who has autism, posted on his private Snapchat account about a rumored widespread threat against schools....
