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Florida authorities investigating death of Ohio lobbyist Neil Clark, indicted in bribery scandal Jessie Balmert, Jackie Borchardt and Anna Staver, Cincinnati Enquirer © Dispatch photo by Jonathan Quilter Neil Clark in 2015 Florida authorities are investigating the death of Neil Clark, a longtime Ohio lobbyist indicted on racketeering charges last year. A bicyclist reported encountering a body around 11:30 a.m. Monday in a wooded area near a pond near Clarks Florida home, the ...

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, Ohios 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 th...

Its an exclusive group. Some members have seen entire sections of state law rewritten to their benefit. Others have managed to head off proposed legislative or executive-branch changes that would have cost them money or brought more regulation. And each of them invested at least $440,000 during the past decade. What is this special bloc? It has no formal name, but it includes the 16 biggest individual contributors to campaigns for statewide and legislative office in Ohio during the past dec...

ECOTs building on South High Street closed in 2018. A now-defunct online charter school that was among the countrys largest is continuing its yearslong fight against repaying Ohio tens of millions of dollars. The Ohio Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday over the process for appealing that refund order. The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow argued state law allows it to appeal the State Board of Education decision in county court. The states lawyer disagreed, arguing the only permitted appeal r...

A now-defunct online charter school that was among the country’s largest is continuing its yearslong fight against repaying Ohio tens of millions of

Now-defunct ECOT continues appeal of $80 million repayment at Ohio Supreme Court Marc Kovac, The Columbus Dispatch © Kyle Robertson/The Columbus Dispatch ECOT founder Bill Lager speaks during an ECOT rally at the Ohio Statehouse this afternoon in Columbus, Ohio on May 9, 2017. The long-shuttered Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow continued Tuesday to challenge state orders to repay about $80 million in funding it received using inflated enrollment numbers. The Ohio Supreme Cour...

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 ch...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A giant, now-defunct online charter school continued its yearslong fight against repaying Ohio tens of millions of dollars as t

COLUMBUS — Three years after going dark, what was once Ohio’s largest online charter school on Tuesday will urge the Ohio Supreme Court to save

She sent a letter to President Trump saying his rhetoric around the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was her "inflection point."