ST. PAUL — Minnesota’s student testing contractor will take $1 million off its new three-year contract to settle with the Minnesota Department of Education over spring testing glitches, under an agreement announced Monday.

Pearson, the vendor, also will add up to nearly $4.7 million in services to settle with the state, Minnesota Public Radio News reported.

In addition, Pearson said it will move Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments testing next year to a new platform the company says will guard against online attacks and other server problems that disrupted the system this spring.

Those problems included several days of technical disruptions and malicious, third-party “denial of service” attacks intended to overload and slow Pearson’s system, the state Education Department said in a statement announcing the settlement.

The problems angered school district officials, who were frustrated by the technical woes during the testing season.