House Special Committee hearing on CPS and Catapult Learning
Channel: Race Matters Friends
Date: 2020-03-07

House Special Committee on Regulatory Oversight and Reform on the relationship between Columbia Public Schools and Catapult Learning. Members from both organizations were asked to attend with 48 hours notice and both declined to attend. Testimony by two educators were heard on disciplinary practices for isolation and restraint practices. Testimony conflicted with numerous CPS statements denying that they had utilized seclusion rooms in an unfinished state and to what extent. CPS seems to be disassociating themselves from Catapult Learning's practices with these statements, even though Catapult Learning is directly contracted to take referrals from CPS for special needs children with behavioral challenges.