COLUMBUS (WCMH) – Families with students enrolled in ECOT are worried whether the online charter school will be shut down with just a few weeks before school begins. The e-school and the Ohio ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Charter school critics cheered the vote Thursday night to shut down the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT) online charter school, while State Rep. Andrew Brenner and ECOT ...

Though it’s been closed for more than four months, critics are now accusing what was the state’s largest online charter school of deliberately manipulating student data to defraud the state out of ...

Diplomas await ECOT graduates at the June 2017 commencement ceremony. Thousands of students are either starting in a new school or still looking for a place to take classes after the closure of the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Students from the just-closed ECOT online charter school have started to land in school districts and other charters, but the numbers remain low and it's too early to tell how well ...

COLUMBUS (WCMH) – The state’s largest online charter school could close as soon as next week. The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT), with an enrollment of about 12,000 students, is losing its ...

Ohio Democrats have unleashed relentless attacks on Republican officeholders for the handling of ECOT, where a big GOP donor got rich, a large, poorly performing online school closed mid-year and ...

In 2006, the Columbus-based online charter school Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow was under fire. The state disputed its attendance numbers, and the Newark schools superintendent accused it of ...

Online charter school Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, or ECOT, claims the audit methods used by the Ohio Department of Education is illegal. ECOT helps educate more than 15,000 students statewide ...

COLUMBUS - For years, Republican leaders heaped praise on the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow – billed as an online alternative to poorly performing public schools. Now, the GOP can't put enough ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio— As one of the nation’s largest online charter schools faces the possibility that it could abruptly close after this week, students like Isabella Aquino who have found a haven in the ...

The state and its largest online charter school are locked in a dispute over how to prove it’s providing an education to its more than 15,000 students. That fight is not just playing out in court but ...