A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit filed by the mother of a 7-year-old autistic child who was repeatedly locked in a dark isolation room at his school for misbehavior. An en banc panel of ...

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — Parents are outraged that a metro school district uses isolation rooms, but that district says they’re nothing new. The Independence School District tells FOX 4 that the isolation ...

When Kari Knudtson’s 10-year-old fourth grader at Mill Creek Elementary School in Independence became wildly disruptive in school last month, he was taken from his classroom and put in the school’s ...

Black parents and campaigners tell The Voice that isolation rooms are being used as punishment instead of support, fuelling a dangerous school-to-prison pipeline “Isolation breaks children,” says ...

A school’s placement of an autistic child in a locked isolation room for misbehavior was “a recognized educational tool” and was part of the child’s special education plan, thus a parent who ...