ECOT attendance inflated by 9,000 students, audit finds; $60 million in state funding in jeopardy

ECOT attendance inflated by 9,000 students, audit finds; $60 million in state funding in jeopardy

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio's largest online charter school, the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT), was paid for 9,000 more students than it should have last school year, an Ohio Department of Education enrollment audit has found. In a letter to the school today, the department tells the school that it has proper documentation for only 6,300 of its 15,300 students - a 59% gap.

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