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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
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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 practices that often left confined children crying for their parents and tearing at the walls ended without a vote in the Illinois House on Wednesday as the legislative session expired.
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.