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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 Clark's Florida home, the Naples Daily News reported. The Collier County medical examiner's office confirmed it had Clark's b...

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, Ohio's 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 the end of it. The end, in fact, is nowhere in sight. The school has not repaid the $80 million, and ...

It's 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 decade (2011-20), as calculated by a Columbus Dispatch analysis of more than 4.3 million  electronic ...

ECOT's building on South High Street closed in 2018. 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 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 state's lawyer disagreed, arguing the only permitted appeal route was one ECOT already tried, unsuccessfully. Ohio officials had concluded ECOT should repay a...

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