The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow is being liquidated in an online auction that starts Monday and runs through mid-June.

The online charter school closed in January after the Ohio Department of Education determined the school owed $80 million for failing to document how much time students spent learning.

Ohio Auditor Dave Yost has finished his audit of ECOT and is opening up about what went wrong.

“The installed a software system that tracks exactly where the kids go, how they spend their time and they never shared that information with ODE,” Yost said. “They kept submitting information they knew was false.”

ECOT sent more than 200 million records to ODE and Yost’s office, but they had removed all data about where the students went, what they were working on and more. Yost said it’s possible ECOT officials thought they could buffalo the regulators.

“In fact, they stripped out all of the meeting [minutes] and spreadsheets they sent over to justify their claim,” Yost said.

Most of the missing information showed that a lot of students were doing nothing. However, for the families that relied on ECOT to give their children an education, Yost said some of the students thrived.

“There are kids who got educated at ECOT and they graduated, passed the state graduation test, but an awful lot of children got left behind,” he said.

Yost also said ECOT’s collapse shows the difference between students who do well in online learning environments and those who don’t.

“If your child has trouble getting up and going to school and doesn’t like to do his homework, is not a self-starter…probably giving him a computer and leaving him at home all day is not going to get better grades,” Yost said.

For years, critics of ECOT have said the school was not properly monitored and that it didn’t have to report what they were doing, leaving many asking what took so long to investigate problems at the school.

“What happened was the law, for many years prior to me ever being in office, was so loose and the standards were so lax that as we audited the work that was being done by ODE, who is the regulator, we couldn’t say anything was wrong because they were auditing the standards that existed at that time,” he said.

Yost said the laws changed drastically in late 2015 and early 206 and now all the information is coming out. He also said all of the information is coming out because of how hard he and his office pushed to reform Ohio’s charter school system.

Yost declined to say whether he thought any of ECOT’s actions amounted to criminal activity.

“It is up to the prosecutors to assess the information that was given to them to determine whether an investigation is needed and ultimately whether it is criminal,” he said.