One way of monitoring the effects of ethical and legal issues concerning severely handicapped students is establishing an additional level of review in the public schools. The Human Rights Committee (HRC) in one district, composed of multidisciplinary professional and community staff, has reviewed 56 individual behavior management programs…

Seclusion timeout and physical restraint are aversive procedures designed to reduce or eliminate students' serious problem behavior. Using these procedures with students in special education has become commonplace in the last decade. Nevertheless, both seclusion timeout and physical restraint procedures have been, and continue to be, quite…

This discussion of college and university policy concerning misconduct of employees looks at legal standards of due process for discipline or dismissal; the parameters of "just cause"; employee rights to representation; and judicial rulings on a variety of misconduct issues such as criminal misconduct, sexual misconduct, alcohol, and drugs. (MSE)