"The hearing, the first time Congress has explored the issue, came after recent U.S. Education Department data shows schools physically restrained students 39,000 times during the 2009-2010 school year -- and black, Hispanic and students with disabilities bore the brunt of that. According to the Education Department's Civil Right Data Collection, a survey of 85 percent of the country's 100,000 schools released in March, 70 percent of students who were restrained had disabilities. Schools mechanically restrained African American and Hispanic students at twice the rate expected given their population."... George said he changed his school by training teachers to solve problems with nonviolent behavior modification. The training helped..."I was not used to Elijah being treated as a person," Jackson, his mother, said.... Now, Elijah attends a traditional public school and wins awards for writing and art. He begins fourth grade in the fall."
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