Audit: ECOT inflated time students spent learning

COLUMBUS, Ohio —Ohio's auditor says the state's then-largest online charter school inflated the amount of time students spent learning by failing to deduct the time students were inactive online.An audit released by Republican Auditor Dave Yost Thursday also said the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow didn't document whether students were learning during times the company claimed for payment.Yost says the company may have broken the law by misleading state regulators by withholding informati