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The privately operated, publicly funded school has used cash advances and “predatory loans” for funding, city school officials say. Urban Prep leaders say its financial issues are resolved.
Bill Banning Locked Seclusion and Face-Down Restraints in Illinois Schools Stalls as Lawmakers Run Out of Time ProPublica 1/14/2021 by Jennifer Smith Richards, Chicago Tribune, and Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Illinois lawmakers had the support to ban schools from locking students alone in a room or physically restraining them face down. But they didn’t have the time. A yearlong legislative effort to end decades of controversial practic...
Legislation to prohibit Illinois schools from putting students alone in locked rooms or physically restraining them face down will have to be introduced again after the General Assembly's session expired without a House vote.
Illinois lawmakers had the support to ban schools from locking students alone in a room or physically restraining them face down. But they didn't have the time.
A year of effort by Illinois lawmakers to end decades of controversial practices that often left confined children crying for their parents and tearing at the walls ended without a