Bipartisan Lawmakers to Introduce Legislation to Protect All Children in Schools from Abuse

Representative George Miller (D-CA) and Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) will hold a press conference on Wednesday, December 9 to introduce new legislation protecting all children in schools from misuse of restraint and seclusion.

This legislation is the first national effort to prevent and reduce harmful restraint and seclusion in schools. A recent U.S. Government Accountability Office investigation found hundreds of allegations that schoolchildren have been abused, and some even died, as a result of the inappropriate use of restraint and seclusion in classrooms; a disproportionate number of them were children with disabilities.