ProPublica & Chicago Tribune investigation - Locking Children Up - Quiet Rooms

ProPublica & Chicago Tribune investigation - Locking Children Up - Quiet Rooms

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The Quiet Room

Children are being locked away, alone and terrified, in schools across Illinois. Often, it’s against the law.

https://features.propublica.org/illinois-seclusion-rooms/school-students-put-in-isolated-timeouts/

The map and visual database help people to understand exactly where incidents are happening.

The good: It shows a lack of reporting


U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION DATA, 2015-16
0 seclusion incidents reported
0 students reported secluded

DISTRICT RECORDS, FALL 2017 THROUGH DEC. 6, 2018
282 isolated timeouts documented
26 minutes per timeout (median)
42% of timeouts did not follow a documented safety concern

Seclusion at School: Look Up Illinois Districts

All public school districts are required to report their use of seclusion to the U.S. Department of Education. Enter a district's name below to see how many incidents it reported for the 2015-16 school year, as well as to see more recent numbers based on an analysis of public records. Requests were sent to all districts that had reported secluding students previously.

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This report doesn't include Chicago. I do feel like readers want more or should be given a deeper explanation about that.