Conn. Officials Investigate Closures of Career-Training Schools

By Nick DeSantis. Officials with Connecticut’s Office of Higher Education are investigating the abrupt closures of three branches of the Sawyer School, a for-profit career-training institution whose main campus is in Rhode Island. The schools are owned by Academic Enterprises Inc., a Rhode Island corporation. Sawyer’s president wrote in an e-mail that it had suspended operations and called off classes that were scheduled to resume this week. The school’s campus in Providence, R.I., has also closed, according to the Providence Journal. Read more...