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Disability advocates want federal action to curtail seclusion, restraint of kids in schools

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KIMBERLY HEFLINGAP Education Writer

9:27 a.m. CST, March 10, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tens of thousands of students, most of them disabled, are strapped down or physically restrained in school, and disability advocates hope that a new Education Department report detailing the practice of "seclusion and restraint" will spur federal action to end it.

The report, compiled and made public for the first time by the department's civil rights arm, shows that 70 percent of students subjected to the techniques have disabilities. There are no