Columbia Public Schools reaches settlement with family over the use of seclusion rooms

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.