WASHINGTON DC
US Senator Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, Chairman of the health education labor and Pensions Committee, introduced the “Keeping all students safe Act” on December 16, 2011. The BILL would create a minimum standard for protecting the public and private school students nationwide from “harmful restraint and seclusion.”
Three elementary school children Scarborough pointed out that school staff refrain the boys almost 100 times in three years. All three students now attend different schools.
A different version of “Keeping all students safe Act” passed in the u.s. House of Representatives last year, but was unable to clear the Senate.
Also in December, the U.s. Department of Education announces that the Office of civil rights will require all public schools and operated State and juvenile detention facilities to report various data next year, including a number of restrictions and seclusions conducted on students.