After winning a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, Democrats are looking to pass legislation to limit the use of restraint and seclusion in schools. (Ting Shen/The Dallas Morning News/TNS)

Democratic lawmakers re-introduced legislation to forbid the use of seclusion as a disciplinary technique in public schools and sharply limit the use of restraint. A similar bill failed in 2010. The U.S. Department of Education’s most recent data indicate that, of 122,000 students subject to restraint or conclusion in a school year, children with disabilities account for about 70 percent.