Disability advocates hope that a new Education Dept. report detailing the practice of “seclusion and restraint” will spur federal action to end it

By Kimberly Hefling from The Washington Post - National

Tens of thousands of students, most of them disabled, are strapped down or physically restrained in school, and disability advocates hope that a new Education Department report detailing the practice of “seclusion and restraint” will spur federal action to end it.

The report, compiled and made public for the first time by the department’s civil-rights arm, shows that 70 percent of students subjected to the techniques have disabilities. There are no federal standards on the use of the techniques in schools.

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