• Assembly Bill (AB) 2657 (Statutes of 2018, Chapter 998) became effective on January 1, 2019. This bill added sections 49005-49006.4 to California's Education Code (EC) regarding the use of restraint and seclusion with students receiving both general education and special education. AB 2657 requires the California Department of Education (CDE) to collect and report the data outlined in statute. This new CDE data collection is based, in part, on a similar data collection conducted by U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights (OCR) in which schools are required to report aggregate data to the OCR about the use of restraint and seclusion through the biannual Civil Rights DATA Collection (CRDC). The data collection authorized by AB 2657 differs from the federal CRDC in that it is an annual collection of information about the use of restraint and seclusion in both traditional and non-public schools (NPS) settings. While the law did not specify the exact collection methodology, the CDE decided to collect these data at the student-level through the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS). For more information, click here

     

    Files include state, county, LEA-level data (i.e., county office of education, district, and charter school), and data at the NPS-level. Please refer to the file structure for details on what data are contained in the file. For more information, click here