The District of Columbia continued to send children to a controversial private school months after the city canceled its contract — and then defaulted on its payments, The Examiner has learned.

School Superintendent Clifford B. Janey canceled the contract with the D.C. Alternative Learning Academy in February, after years of complaints about its shoddy staff and crumbling buildings. Officials were still sending public school children there through June without paying for the services, sources told The Examiner.