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CLEVELAND, Ohio – Seeking to address the multiple legal and ethics scandals that have plagued the Statehouse recently – as well as gain some political points in her run for governor – Democratic Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley released her policy proposal Tuesday to combat corruption in Ohio. In the past decade, political corruption to the tune of millions of dollars has been allowed to flourish in .
With all that has gone on in the world since, the scandal surrounding the not-so-recently deceased Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow feels like $80 million ago.
ECOT, Ohio s first and, at one point, largest online charter school, shut down three years ago after the Ohio Department of Education demanded the school repay that much of its state aid for the 2015-16 and 2016-17 school years.
The state said the overpayment was based on inflated enrollment numbers provided by ECOT.
That was far from the end of it. The end, in fact, is nowhere in sight.
The school has not repaid the $80 million, and for the past three years has been engaged in court battles about it on various fronts, with ECOT lawyers arguing everything but, We shouldn t have to pay back Ohio because the state would just blow it on something else anyway.
A shuttered virtual school in Ohio is making a new attempt to overturn an order to repay $60 million in funding, arguing that final state agency decisions can be appealed in trial courts.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (CN) The Ohio Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday over whether a shuttered online charter school can appeal an order to repay millions in funding to the state.
The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, known as ECOT, operated as Ohio’s first online community school, also known as a charter school, until it abruptly closed in early 2018 after audits by state officials showed its enrollment numbers were inflated and students were not receiving full-time instruction as required.