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Car2Go car-sharing service drops electric cars for gasoline models

Edit Venture Beat 19 Mar 2016
When Car2Go launched its car-sharing service in San Diego about five years ago, its entire fleet was composed of electric cars ... In particular, Car2Go expected Ecotality to follow through with a promise to install 1,000 public charging stations in San Diego. Instead, Ecotality went bankrupt in 2013, after installing only 400 of the stations ... ALSO SEE. Utilities To Lead Surge Of Electric-Car Charging In Southern California ... MORE ... [hat tip ... ....

Local Government Insider: Democratic state legislator slams Paula Brooks’ ties to ECOT founder

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 10 Mar 2016
Franklin County Commissioner Paula Brooks found herself in the crosshairs of yet another Democrat this week. State Rep ... Fedor, ranking member of the House education committee, sent a letter to House minority leader Fred Strahorn and Senate minority leader Joe Schiavoni after Brooks filed a campaign-finance report that included a $25,000 donation from William Lager, founder and operator of the online charter school ECOT ... @LoriKurtzman....

Ohio to review charter school attendance after over-payments to at least two schools

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 08 Mar 2016
Enrollment is used to calculate state funding; ECOT has about 18,000 students. ECOT canceled its initial review with the state in February ... Buckeye, like ECOT, is sponsored by the Educational Service Center of Lake Erie West ... ECOT was required to repay the state $1.6 million in 2002 for enrollment problems during its first year, 2000-01....

Ohio Politics Now: 'We're definitely rising in Michigan,' Kasich says

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 08 Mar 2016
Want to know what’s happening in Ohio government and politics from Columbus to Washington, D.C.? The Columbus Dispatch has you covered. Ohio Gov. John Kasich made a three-stop push in Michigan Monday ahead of today’s primary there ... In the polls. “According to a new Monmouth University poll, 36 percent of likely Republican primary voters support Mr ... “While Mr ... Enrollment is used to calculate state funding; ECOT has about 18,000 students.” ... ....

Ohio economy creates stress across all generations and parties

Edit Ohio 06 Mar 2016
By Doug Livingston. and Jim Mackinnon. Beacon Journal staff writers. The Ohio economy, once one of the most robust in the country, has tanked in the last 15 years ... Wages in the construction industry have tumbled ... ... Debt fears ... ... He and his wife, a teacher for the ECOT online charter school, share some of the same struggles as many in the church’s congregation of about 500 — the need for both of them to work to make ends meet....

Challengers outspending Franklin County incumbents in Democratic primaries

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 04 Mar 2016
Those reports cover the period through Feb. 24 ... Their opponents, state Rep. Kevin Boyce, retired Columbus police Lt ... She raised nearly $67,000, including a $25,000 donation from William Lager, founder and operator of online charter school ECOT. "It is clear that Paula Brooks is willing to mortgage the future of our children by accepting a $25,000 contribution from ECOT founder William Lager, said Jayme Staley, Boyce's campaign manager....

E-school to repay Ohio for missing students

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 01 Mar 2016
The two sides are finalizing a settlement ... It’s not that hard,” Gunlock said ... Schiavoni and others see it as no coincidence that as the department prepares a closer look at e-school enrollment, an attendance amendment was floated recently in the Ohio House, reportedly crafted by the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT) ... Two-thirds of that money goes to ECOT and the Ohio Virtual Academy ... ECOT is among those up for review this year....

OAPCS Media Statement on State School Report Cards (Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Feb 2016
(Source. Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools). FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--The Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools (OAPCS) President and CEO Dr. Darlene Chambers made the following statement today regarding the just released Ohio State Report Cards. ... Darlene Chambers ... Chambers said ... Chambers said ... Ohio Connections Academy, the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT), Ohio Virtual Academy and Alternative Education Academy ... Chambers said....

Ohio’s troubled online-education project investigated

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 25 Feb 2016
The Ohio inspector general is investigating a troubled joint project by Ohio State University and the state Board of Higher Education to create a clearinghouse of online-learning materials. State lawmakers mandated the project during the administration of former Gov. Ted Strickland ... Neil Clark, spokesman for ECOT, said, “We are unaware of any investigation,” and he dismissed ProgressOhio’s claims as recycled and without merit....

Charter Reform Rewind (Akron Public Schools)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Feb 2016
In the past, William Lager, the ECOT founder, has been a big campaign contributor to the Republican majorities in the legislature, roughly $600,000 during the most recent election cycle and last year ... What should be clear is the brazenness of ECOT wanting changes just weeks after the improvements took effect ... Now ECOT wants to postpone new attendance tracking requirements for one year....

Don't weaken charter standards

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 23 Feb 2016
1, the wheedling is underway to water them down. Representatives of the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT) are said to be leading efforts to insert favorable exceptions into another bill that could get a full House vote on Wednesday. William Lager, the founder and operator of ECOT, was the second largest individual donor to Republican lawmakers in the last election cycle, giving $393,500, plus another $202,000 in 2015 ... ....

Seven Colorful Mini Bags Under $30

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016
Big bags are so last year. With the average purse weighing in around three pounds, it’s time to thank designers everywhere for coming up with a lighter but just as stylish alternative -- mini bags. Celebs like Selena Gomez and Miley Cyrus love their tiny envelope chain bags, while Vanessa Ann Hudgens and Rachel Bilson opt for crossbodies and bucket bags ... Unleash your inner rocker chick with Urban Outfitter’s Ecote Studded Wallet ($29) ... ....

Charters pushing for amendments that some worry could weaken new reforms

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 19 Feb 2016
Representatives of the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT), the state’s largest charter school whose operator is a top GOP contributor, are reportedly leading a push to attach amendments to an education-themed bill that the House hopes to pass next week ... ECOT and other charter schools also are looking for a safe harbor provision for their sponsors that would temporarily shield them from consequences of new evaluations....
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