by kids1stadvocac | May 20, 2025 | Federal
North Platte Post In the wake of President Donald Trump’s executive order aiming to reinstate “common sense” school discipline, more states may follow and expand the authority of teachers and school officials to deal with disruptive students. The order, signed in...
by kids1stadvocac | May 13, 2025 | Restraint & Seclusion, State
nola.com Louisiana schools would have to install cameras in special-education classrooms and stop putting students who have outbursts in separate “seclusion” rooms under a proposed law that advocates say provides some of the strongest protections for students with...
by kids1stadvocac | May 13, 2025 | Restraint & Seclusion, State
MPR News Disability rights activists applauded Minnesota’s move two years ago to ban the use of school seclusion rooms to discipline children in kindergarten through third grade. On Thursday, they returned to the Capitol to fight a legislative effort to lift that ban....
by kids1stadvocac | May 13, 2025 | State
The Journal Record A new Oklahoma law will prohibit schools from inflicting physical pain as punishment for students with disabilities. Although the practice is already banned in the state’s regulations for schools, attempts by the Oklahoma Legislature to add the rule...
by kids1stadvocac | May 6, 2025 | State
Oklahoma Watch A yearslong legislative effort to ban Oklahoma teachers and support staff from using physical force to discipline students with severe disabilities has prevailed. Senate Bill 364 by Dave Rader, R-Tulsa, and Rep. Anthony Moore, R-Clinton, cleared the...
