A recent U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) investigation found concerns about St. Johns County School District’s “very high” rate of restraint for students with disabilities. As a result, the school district has agreed to assess its use of restraint on a monthly basis, along with making other improvements. The investigation, opened in 2019, showed one student was restrained 126 times over 2017-18 and 2018-19, the two school years OCR reviewed. In just the 2018-19 school year, the Florida school district restrained 153 students a total 1,711 times, according to OCR. In one incident, a student was restrained for nearly six hours.
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