The embattled online charter school, ECOT, had hoped that today’s statehouse rally would be well attended. It wasn’t.
ECOT also hoped the rally would prompt a return to the olden days, when the lavish campaign contributions of the school’s top dogs appeared to mean more than its chronically failing academic performance.…
Amid growing opposition to William Lager’s consistently failing online charter schools, Mr. Lager found a new cash cow: IQ Innovations, his online learning management company.…
In early 2015 State Auditor David Yost unannounced attendance checks at 30 charter schools showed 25 percent of them have significant cases of under-attendance. Yost referred seven schools, and another nine with less severe attendance variations, to state education officials for review.…
E-schools, a subset of charter schools that operate “virtually” or online, have had a long history of spotty attendance reporting.
In 2001, the state fined Ohio’s first E-school, the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT), $1.7 million for claiming students it wasn’t educating.…
In October 2014, the Columbus Dispatch reported that five Imagine Schools in Franklin County received a combined $20.2 million in the 2012-13 school year. And that a quarter of that money – $5.1 million – was spent on rent, all under long-term leases with SchoolHouse Finance, a subsidiary of Imagine.…
Concept Schools manages 19 publicly funded charters schools in Ohio that operate under the names of Horizon Science Academy and Noble Academy.
Founded in Cleveland but now based in Chicago, Concept Schools is affiliated with Turkish Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen.…