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Lily Altavena
Educational Equity reporter
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Hazel Park Schools plan to reduce restraint and seclusion of students with disabilities, focusing on audits, personalized plans, and new training, following concerns over increased use at Edison School.
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Publishing shorter pieces on a regular basis helped keep sustained attention on the issue.
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Some educators in Michigan are training to avoid using restraint and seclusion in the classroom, here's how.
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Fed up with a Michigan school system that used seclusion on their autistic son, Bennett Solomond's parents moved the family to Pennsylvania in 2019.
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Michigan educators have secluded and restrained students nearly 94,000 times over the past five school years, a Free Press investigation found.
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Lawmakers sought to restrict the use of seclusion and restraints on students in Michigan schools back in 2016. It was only supposed to be used for emergencies, they said.
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A school district in Michigan isolated children with disabilities more than 4,000 times – and administrators will not reveal why.
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Free Press investigation finds some Michigan educators using restraint and seclusion improperly, with no law to stop them.
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State lawmakers had thought they solved the problem by banning the use of controversial tactics by educators against children.