Hudson Reporter
Hoboken school board to pay $25,000
Settlement reached after autistic child was allegedly improperly restrained ×
A socially distant Hoboken Board of Education meeting held Dec. 8. 2020
$25,000. That’s how much the Hoboken Board of Education will pay in a settlement to an autistic child who was allegedly improperly physically restrained at Wallace Elementary School starting last year.
According to the Dec. 23 complaint to approve the infant settlement agreement, the Hoboken Board of Education “failed to provide a free appropriate education and discriminated against the minor plaintiff based on her disability.”
These alleged failures include unlawful and improper use of physical restraints; failure to implement less restrictive alternatives; failure to provide a proper Behavioral Intervention Plan and/or Functional Behavior Analysis; failure to provide for properly trained staff and aides; and failure to take proper data and provide appropr