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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apryl Morin, who heads the sponsorship work for the ESC, defended collection of those fees. "The ESC has collected all sponsorship fees consistent with state law and its sponsorship contract," Morin ...

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 ...

COLUMBUS (WCMH) — The Ohio Legislative Black Caucus (OLBC) does not want to see the state allow the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT) to become a dropout-recovery school without a discussion ...

The superintendent of online charter school giant ECOT announced Friday that he will resign next month, after he warned that the school could face a "death spiral" if the state forces it to pay back ...

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 ...

Embattled online charter school Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT) is being accused of using taxpayer dollars given to them by the state based on full-time student enrollment to pay off employees ...

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - Approximately 12,000 students across the state of Ohio attended ECOT, or the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow. Now that ECOT officially closed on Friday, the clock is ticking ...

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - A report issued by Ohio Auditor of State Dave Yost details how the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, or ECOT, inflated the amount of time students spent learning during online ...