by Shaun Heasley | January 21, 2025
“New data from thousands of school districts across the nation is highlighting stark differences in the experiences of students with disabilities compared to their typically developing peers.
Children with disabilities are far more likely to be subject to restraint or seclusion, suspended, expelled, referred to law enforcement or arrested at school, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s most recent civil rights data collection.
The findings, released this month, are based on responses from 17,704 school districts accounting for more than 98,000 schools during the 2021–2022 academic year.”