Half of the standardized tests at a D.C. public high school went missing last spring, and with them any official explanation.

Now, parents at Northeast’s long-struggling Spingarn Senior High are left wondering not only how their children performed, but if the school made any academic progress at all after six years of near-straight failure. They also would like to know who is to blame.

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