Terrence Rideau was a middle school student when his mother, Breggett
Rideau, noticed his unexplained injuries at the end of the school day—a
severe bruise on his head, a dislocated knee, a fractured thumb.
Now 21, Terrence has severe cognitive and physical disabilities and
uses a wheelchair. He could not tell his parents what was happening in
his classroom. But what the Keller, Texas, family learned over years of
legal battles led to a $1 million jury verdict against the school
district, and eventually to a law that makes Texas the first state in
the country to require cameras to be installed in self-contained special
education classrooms at parent or teacher request.
That law, which went into effect this school year, has raised complex
questions about the cost to districts, student and teacher privacy, and
even whether cameras will meet the goal of protecting children...
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2016/09/21/cameras-in-special-ed-classrooms-a-complex.html