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DOJ faults Anchorage School District for use of seclusion, restraints

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The agreement states that the district will eliminate the use of seclusion at all schools and ensure that students are only restrained when there is imminent danger of “serious physical harm to the student to another person.”

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska’s largest school district repeatedly and inappropriately secluded and restrained students with disabilities, the U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday following an investigation into alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

It also found that some students who were put into seclusion harmed themselves and some expressed suicidal thoughts. The department said the Anchorage School District fully cooperated with the investigation, which began in November 2020, and began to reevaluate its practices before the investigation was completed. Bryantt became district superintendent last summer.

 

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