Ohio’s auditor is seeking more than $60,000 from two now-closed Columbus charter schools accused of submitting inaccurate student data to the state.
Auditor Dave Yost says the Talented Tenth Leadership Academy for Girls and the Talented Tenth Leadership Academy for Boys opened in July 2013, and closed just three months later.
During that time each school got $40,000 in start-up money from the state Department of Education, but the state says most of that should have been returned when the schools failed to enroll a minimum number of students.
The auditor also says $7,500 in state money went in a personal bank account for the schools' director Andre Tucker. He was found guilty of two counts of theft and ordered to repay the money.
