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Committee hears testimony and lays over bill to ban seclusion in schools amid sharply divided testimony
Summary
Representative English introduced House Bill 11‑78 to prohibit seclusion (involuntary isolation) in Colorado public schools. Supporters described traumatic experiences and called for a ban; district special‑education directors and administrators warned that removing seclusion without resourcing and training could endanger students and staff. The
The House Education Committee heard hours of testimony Wednesday on House Bill 11‑78, which would prohibit the involuntary seclusion of students in Colorado public schools. After more than three hours of witness statements and committee discussion the sponsor asked that the bill be laid over for action only while amendment work continued.
Representative Leslie English, the bill’s sponsor, opened the hearing with an appeal to legislators’ moral obligations and described parent and educator accounts she said show routine misuse of seclusion. “Incarceration in schools,” she said, “is the child is put into this space with no way out. Doors locked from the…
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