ECOT closing: Sponsor votes to shut online school after state rejects settlement offer - cleveland.com

The sponsor of the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT) has voted to close the controversial online school amid budghet troubles

Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow

"Ohio auditor subpoenaing data from closed online school ECOT". The News-Herald. Retrieved 2018-07-08. ^ "Findings for Recovery of $117 million-plus issued against defunct El

State school board votes to recover $60 million from ECOT online school - cleveland.com

Ohio's state school board has ordered the Electonic Classroom of Tomorrow online charter school to repay $60 million in state funding for students it could not document to the state's satisfaction

The ECOT Debacle: When Charter Schools Dodge Accountability | NEA

The towering failures of Ohio’s largest online charter school became too embarrassing even for school choice advocates, but it’s not just ‘one bad apple.’

PolitiFact | Ohio auditor candidate misleads about his role in online school ECOT shutting down

Investigations into the now-shuttered Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, called ECOT, have roiled statewide elections in Ohio. The Columbus public online school launched in 2000, founded by software executive William Lager. By the end, nearly two decades later, the school received $1 billion from the state, and Lager, who once had financial problems, became a millionaire. Now politicians on both sides are spinning answers to key questions: Who is to blame for the online school bilking state taxpayers? Who gets credit for the school’s demise? ...

ECOT makes "final offer" to reduce penalties to stay open - cleveland.com

The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT) online charter school says it will cut founder William Lager out of some school operations if the state will let it stay open the rest of this school year

ECOT funding questioned by Ohio Supreme Court justices: "How is it not absurd?"

The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT) and the Ohio Department of Education took their fight over funding of the online charter school to the Ohio Supreme Court today

Online schools are losing support, creating divisions in the national charter school movement - cleveland....

ECOT sign.JPG The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT), an online school that is Ohio's largest charter school, is critical of recent attacks on e-schools and a Stanford report saying...

Kasich budget underfunds education Some schools lose substantially

“State Can Try to Make ECOT Online School Return Money, Judge Rules,” Cleveland.com, accessed March 29, 2017, http://www. cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/09/state_can_try_to_make...

Election 2018 and ECOT: Why the charter school scandal matters - Cincinnati Enquirer

Expect to hear plenty about ECOT in the coming months. Don't know much about the charter school scandal? The Enquirer explains.