Davis schools reached an agreement the federal government this week to update policies on restraining students, resolving an investigation triggered by the 2018 death of a 13-year-old student.
Davis Joint Unified committed to providing additional training and monitoring how schools practice restraint and seclusion for students with disabilities by January 2023.
The agreement with the U.S. Department of Education comes almost exactly four years after Max Benson died after an three employees at an El Dorado County nonpublic school placed him in a face-down prone restraint for nearly two hours. Max, who had autism, suffered fatal brain damage and died in November 2018.
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