Columbia Public Schools reaches settlement with family over the use of seclusion rooms
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A settlement has been reached between Columbia Public Schools and the family of a student over the use of seclusion rooms.
The district agreed to pay a family $20,000 over claims administrators at Beulah Ralph Elementary School put a child in a room for several hours as punishment.
CPS denied it did anything wrong in the case.