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State audits confirm a WFYI investigation that uncovered some schools do not accurately report how often they forcibly isolate and restrain students.
The Indiana Department of Education began conducting required audits of the number of times students are secluded and restrained after a WFYI investigation.
Indiana lawmakers approved legislation a decade ago that was intended to regulate and curb the use of restraint and seclusion in schools. But a lack of oversight from the Indiana Department of Education means its unclear whether the law has had its intended effect.
Students across Indiana are secluded and restrained thousands of times each year. But their data about those practices is incomplete and state oversight is lacking.
An 11-year-old boy was isolated inside a room inside his school for roughly 12 hours over the course of two days early last fall. The boy is on the autism spectrum. And it wasn’t the first time he was removed from his class and forced into seclusion.The boy was secluded for roughly 15 hours over the