New Jersey schools would be required to immediately notify parents if a student is locked inside a padded isolation closet under a proposed law designed to force educators to be more transparent about the controversial technique often used on disabled students. The proposed legislation follows an NJ Advance Media investigation, “Inside the quiet rooms,” published in June that found at least 1,150 New Jersey students have been forced into seclusion spaces in recent years for alleged misbehavior in class. Isolation rooms are banned in several others states, but they are legal in New Jersey in ex…
