by Common Ground | Jan 22, 2018 | Letters
Dear Editor, Lost in the hundreds of bills passed during the lame duck period of the final week of the legislature, was a Restraint and Seclusion bill that not only strips students with disabilities of their civil rights, but now legislates their continued physical...
by Common Ground | Apr 16, 2012 | Capitols
U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Chair of the Senate Education Committee, has introduced a bill (S.2020) that would establish national standards on the use of restraints and seclusion in school. The “Keeping All Students Safe Act” would prohibit seclusion, as well as...