Updated: 2:49 p.m. Wednesday, April 06, 2016 | Posted: 11:27 a.m. Wednesday, April 06, 2016. State officials are threatening to reconsider a $280 million contract with its testing vendor after answers to 14,220 state standardized tests were erased because of a computer glitch last week.
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