Sec. 4. Prohibition against corporal punishment
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Subpart 4 of part C of the General Education Provisions Act ( 20 U.S.C. 1232f et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: No funds shall be made available under any applicable program to any educational agency or institution, including a local educational agency or State educational agency, that has a policy or practice which allows school personnel to inflict corporal punishment upon a student— as a form of punishment; or for the purpose of modifying undesirable behavior. In the case of an applicable program under which a local educational agency may only receive funds through a State educational agency that is prohibited under subsection
(a)from receiving funds under any applicable program, a local educational agency that is not prohibited under subsection
(a)from receiving such funds may apply directly to the Secretary to receive funds under the program. Each local educational agency applying directly to the Secretary under paragraph
(1)shall certify in such application that the agency is not prohibited under subsection
(a)from receiving funds under any applicable program. Nothing in this section shall be construed to preclude school personnel from using, within the scope of employment, reasonable restraint to the lightest possible degree upon a student, if— the student’s behavior poses an imminent danger of physical injury to the student, school personnel, or others; less restrictive interventions would be ineffective in stopping such imminent danger of physical injury; and the reasonable restraint ends immediately upon the cessation of the conditions described in paragraphs
(1)and (2). For purposes of this section— the term corporal punishment has the meaning given such term in section 12 of the Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act of 2019; the term educational agency or institution means any public or private agency or institution which is the recipient, or serves students who are recipients of, funds under any applicable program; the terms local educational agency and State educational agency have the meanings given such terms in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; the term school personnel has the meaning given such term in section 12 of the Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act of 2019; and the term student includes any person who is in attendance at an educational agency or institution. .
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Prohibition against corporal punishment
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