Damning audit finds two virtual schools misspent $85M in state funds
The two virtual charter schools—Indiana Virtual School and Indiana Virtual Pathways Academy—shut down last summer after allegations of enrollment fraud first emerged.
Stephanie Wang, Chalkbeat Indiana
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State education officials vote to recover $40M from virtual schools
The state education board voted unanimously to try to recover about $40 million from Indiana Virtual School and Indiana Virtual Pathways Academy after the state examiner found the schools inflated enrollments with inactive and out-of-state students—and, in one case, a student who had died.
State could seek $40M after probe finds virtual schools inflated enrollment
Two school years after a student died, Indiana Virtual School kept him on its rolls and received state funding to educate him. And that was just one example of how the school inflated enrollment by hundreds of students, according to the findings of a state examiner’s investigation.
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