by kids1stadvocac | Jun 3, 2025 | State
Dallas News Educators have long urged lawmakers to revamp school discipline laws, detailing horror stories about suffering injuries on the job from violent students. In a poll cited by the state’s 2023 Teacher Vacancy Task Force report, nearly half of educators listed...
by kids1stadvocac | May 27, 2025 | State
Chalkbeat New York City’s public schools routinely flout federal rules designed to prevent schools from removing children from class for long periods due to behavior related to their disabilities, a Chalkbeat investigation has found. To examine the discipline process,...
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....
