Here's the letter to Spectrum Academy from the Office for Civil Rights, explaining its investigation and findings, and the agreement showing “significant changes' the school will make.
A Spectrum Academy campus at 575 N. Cutler Drive in North Salt Lake, as seen in 2018. The charter school for students with autism and other neurodiversity restrained and secluded students, violating their civil rights, the U.S. Department of Education found.One Spectrum Academy student was restrained 99 times in one school year. Another was restrained or secluded at least 40 times over two years.
They missed so many hours of learning that the school violated their right to a free and appropriate public education, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil RightsThe two children were among more than 100 students who were immobilized or taken to timeout rooms over 1,000 times in the 2017-18 and 2018-19 school years at the Utah charter for autistic and neurotypically diverse children.
But the federal investigators who tallied those numbers also found significant discrepancies in the Academy’s records, and cautioned that “the total number of restraint and seclusion incidents is likely higher.” Here is the letter from the Office for Civil Rights to Jaime Christensen, Spectrum Academy’s executive director of academics, outlining its investigation and findings. Among them: Another 26 students may have been denied a free appropriate public education.
Below is the agreement she signed, listing what the school will change to ensure it is complying with federal law. Federal officials noted that it includes “significant changes to [the Academy’s] policies, procedures, and training requirements with respect to the use of restraint and seclusion.”
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