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During the 2017-18 school year, half of all Garrison students were arrested. No school district in the country that year had a higher student arrest rate, according to federal data.
A short video taken inside an Illinois school captured troubling behavior: A teacher gripping a 6-year-old boy with autism by the ankle and dragging him down the hallway on his back.
Does the Garrison School need armed police protection? That’s the question to be considered by a task force created by the school board at its Jan. 8 meeting. “We’re concerned about safety ...
Education School District With Highest Student Arrest Rate in the Nation Agrees to Reform How It Disciplines Disabled Students Following a ProPublica-Chicago Tribune investigation, the Garrison ...
Garrison School is part of a special education district that’s supposed to be under federal monitoring for violating the civil rights of its disabled students. (Bryan Birks/for ProPublica) ...