tailieunhanh - SECLUSIONSAND RESTRAINTS: Selected Cases of Death and Abuse at Public and Private Schools and Treatment Centers

This high level of spending extends well into the pay period: in weeks beginning 8 to 14 days after payday, spending is still 5 percent higher than in the omitted category. The final distance category captures the significant increase in spending due to overlap with the next To further verify that our baseline results are not driven by our parameterization of the distance measure, we regress log expenditure on separate dummy variables for each starting distance from payday. This less parametric specification corroborates our baseline results: the individual dummies for different starting distances are highly significant and positive, beginning on payday and continuing until a distance of. | United States Government Accountability Office GAO Testimony Before the Committee on Education and Labor House of Representatives For Release on Delivery Expected at 10 00 . EDT Tuesday May 19 2009 SECLUSIONS AND RESTRAINTS Selected Cases of Death and Abuse at Public and Private Schools and Treatment Centers Statement of Gregory D. Kutz Managing Director Forensic Audits and Special Investigations GAO Accountability Integrity Reliability GAO-09-719T May 19 2009 À GAO Accountability Integrity Reliability Highlights Highlights of GAO-09-719T a testimony before the Committee on Education and Labor House of Representatives SECLUSIONS AND RESTRAINTS Selected Cases of Death and Abuse at Public and Private Schools and Treatment Centers Why GAO Did This Study GAO recently testified before the Committee regarding allegations of death and abuse at residential programs for troubled teens. Recent reports indicate that vulnerable children are being abused in other settings. For example one report on the use of restraints and seclusions in schools documented cases where students were pinned to the floor for hours at a time handcuffed locked in closets and subjected to other acts of violence. In some of these cases this type of abuse resulted in death. Given these reports the Committee asked GAO to 1 provide an overview of seclusions and restraint laws applicable to children in public and private schools 2 verify whether allegations of student death and abuse from the use of these methods are widespread and 3 examine the facts and circumstances surrounding cases where a student died or suffered abuse as a result of being secluded or restrained. GAO reviewed federal and state laws and abuse allegations from advocacy groups parents and the media from the past two decades. GAO did not evaluate whether using restraints and seclusions can be beneficial. GAO examined documents related to closed cases including police and autopsy reports and school policies. GAO also interviewed .