Two Connecticut Schools Cut Ties to Chinese-Student Recruiters
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Two Connecticut high schools are cutting ties with a company that recruits and houses Chinese students after Bloomberg News reported that the business and its agents in China feigned a connection to the University of Connecticut.
Woodstock Academy in Woodstock, where American International Student Centers placed 14 foreign students for the current academic year, will stop using the company as of July 1, headmaster Kim Caron said in a phone interview. The Gilbert School, in Winsted, expects to scrap a plan approved by its board in April for the company to supply 20 international students in 2012-2013, superintendent David Cressy said.