On November 19, COPAA and the Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE) -along with 860 organizations and individual signers- issued a set of Shared Principles to affirm commitment to ensuring that children and youth with disabilities receive the education and support fundamental to their growth and development, and to advance policies and practices that protect the rights of children and youth with disabilities, strengthen families, and support school personnel. The Shared Principles were shared with the media and every member of Congress. COPAA members are invited to sign on to the principles until the end of the year.
Schools are supposed to limit using restraint and seclusion to discipline kids – but parents I spoke with say the practice is wildly misused
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...
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