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CONNECTICUT SUES FOR-PROFIT NURSING SCHOOL THAT CLOSED ABRUPTLY AND LEFT
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut’s attorney general sued a for-profit nursing
school and its owner Thursday, alleging they left hundreds of students in the
lurch when the school abruptly closed its three campuses in the state in
February while reaping millions of dollars in profits.
Attorney General William Tong filed a civil lawsuit against Stone Academy’s
parent company, owner Joseph Bierbaum and another for-profit Connecticut school
owned by Bierbaum — Paier College. Several students also are suing Stone Academy
and Bierbaum in a separate lawsuit.
Tong said the students were deprived of nursing careers at a time when more
nurses are needed nationwide to deal with multiple health crises including
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Stone Academy, in a statement, called the lawsuit baseless and blamed other
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Tong said Stone Academy aggressively used marketing to recruit students, many of
them Black and Hispanic women who took out loans and used their life savings to
pay the more than $30,000 in tuition and other costs to become licensed
practical nurses. But the school provided an inadequate education and left them
ineligible to take licensing exams and obtain state nursing licenses, he said.
Tong also accused Bierbaum of funneling nearly $1 million a year from Stone
Academy to subsidize Paier College, between 2019 and at least 2021, while
students at Stone Academy lacked books, lab supplies and at times heat and
running water.
The lawsuit seeks millions of dollars in restitution for the students and
penalties for alleged violations of the state’s unfair trade practices laws.
“What we’ve seen is not just unjust and wrong but we’ve seen ... Connecticut
families, working women devastated by this crisis,” Tong said at a news
conference in Hartford. “Stone promised hands-on training from industry leaders
and education that would position students to become licensed practical nurses
in less than two years. These were lies. Lies. This a textbook case of consumer
deception.”
Tong’s office began investigating Stone Academy after it closed its three
campuses in East Hartford, Waterbury and West Haven in February as the state
Office of Higher Education was raising concerns about the school and seeking an
audit.
Tong said officials found, among other things, that the school knowingly hired
instructors who were not qualified to teach under state regulations and provided
only a fraction of the 860 hours of hands-on clinical experience it promised —
creating a backlog of more than 1,000 students seeking that clinical experience
as of late 2020.
State officials also said the average passing rate on a national nursing exam
for Stone Academy students was well below the 80% rate required by the state.
In a statement emailed to The Associated Press, Stone Academy said it was trying
to “wind down” operations in a responsible way when the Office of Higher
Education ordered it to close within two weeks without any teaching plan in
place.
“Stone’s efforts have been focused on helping students, but this lawsuit will
require Stone to aggressively seek to hold OHE’s leadership and other state
officials accountable for their severe mismanagement of this matter and the harm
they continue to inflict on hundreds of students and graduates,” the statement
said.
Tong said the school was wrongly blaming state officials for its own failures.
Earlier this year, state lawmakers and Gov. Ned Lamont approved a new state
budget that requires the Office of Higher Education to refund the tuition paid
by certain Stone Academy students, using an already existing fund for helping
students when private schools close.
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