Dozens of the District of Columbia’s most vulnerable students have been farmed out to two schools that have been the subject of numerous allegations of abuse and neglect, an Examiner investigation found. The schools send about 2,000 special education students every year to outside facilities from Colorado to Florida, as well as several private schools in the District.

An Examiner investigation of two of those schools — Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton, Mass., and the Florida Institute for Neurologic Rehabilitation Inc. in Wauchula, Fla. — revealed a disturbing pattern of incidents in schools paid millions of dollars by taxpayers over the past decade, including: