Anchorage schools ‘repeatedly and inappropriately’ secluded and restrained students with disabilities, says Justice Department

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The practices are supposed to be limited to emergency situations, but the Justice Department says Anchorage schools used them “to address noncompliant student behavior, resulting in students missing large amounts of instructional time.”

“The vision is to move in a new direction and to move away from the practices of seclusion, and to dramatically reform restraints,” Bryantt said during a news conference Thursday about the settlement. “So we need to prioritize investing in training, and whatever it takes to ensure that staff understand what their new tools in their toolbox will be to help students in distress.”

Many of the reforms are aimed at four specific schools: Kasuun Elementary, Lake Hood Elementary, William Tyson Elementary and the Whaley School. These schools all have programs forA fifth school, Baxter Elementary, also had one of these programs prone to the problematic practices during the period investigators looked at, but it has since ended.

Bryantt said the district denies that it discriminates, but agrees that its practices need to change. Other commitments in the settlement include dismantling seclusion rooms, staff training on other ways to manage students’ behavior, and creating a new staff position responsible for implementing, documenting and monitoring compliance with the settlement agreement.

 

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