D.C. special ed. can't account for millions

The District of Columbia’s special education department paid $160 million in 16 months to send some 2,000 children to outside schools. But don’t expect school officials to be able to give a full account of where the money went.

More than a year after the Department of Education threatened to cut off federal funds to the schools because of shoddy accounting practices, the schools and the city finance office continue to mismanage their dollars.