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A former administrator of two defunct Indiana virtual charter schools has agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge of wire fraud conspiracy as part of a sweeping $44 million scheme to defraud the state’s education department.
Percy Clark, 82, of Carmel, who helped oversee Indiana Virtual School and Indiana Virtual Pathways Academy, admitted to participating in a plan to inflate student enrollment numbers to obtain tens of millions of dollars in state education funding.
According to a plea agreemen