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NY: NYC schools suspend students with disabilities longer than legally allowed

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,...

Some states reexamine school discipline as Trump order paves go-ahead

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...

LA:  New bill overhauls how La. schools treat special ed students

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...

MN:  Minnesota disabilities advocates push back on plan to restore school seclusion rooms

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....

OK:  Oklahoma bans corporal punishment for disabled students

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...
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