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this month’s success story:

house passes the

�keeping all students safe act�

In a great victory for disability and civil rights advocates, the House of Representatives passed the Keeping All Students Safe Act (formerly, the Preventing Harmful Restraint and Seclusion in Schools Act), by a vote of 262-153. The bill, which would set the first federal safety standards on restraint and seclusion in schools, will put significant restrictions on schools restraining children, confining them in seclusion rooms and using aversive interventions that could harm them. The legislation stems from a congressional report last year citing hundreds of cases of alleged abuse and death from restraint and seclusion in public and private schools in the past two decades. The Government Accountability Office report said the majority of students in the study were students with disabilities. The legislation awaits Senate action.

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