D.C. school officials are turning to an Indianapolis nonprofit group to help rescue them from a decades-long special education nightmare.

Choices Inc. has been paid nearly $3.4 million by the state superintendent’s office since the beginning of the year for a pilot project to provide services in D.C. for troubled city kids, records obtained by The Examiner show. The contract is an effort to keep children in the District — and out of the pricey out-of-state clinics that have faced hundreds of complaints of abuse and neglect.