Can we recover tuition monies paid to a "brick & mortar" private school that is an unaccredited Diploma Mill but that is represented as accredited?

Our children attended a private school for 2 years. They left the school and were hoping to begin their junior year this year when we found out their first 2 years of high school credits didn't count as they could not be transferred as the school they were going to turns out to be unaccredited. We expended over $40,000 and now our children have to repeat the first 2 years of high school as the school they had been attending was grossly misrepresented by the owner/director of the school. We seek to recover the monies expended as they were received by the principal/owner/operator of the institution under false pretenses. Others who are attempting to transfer high school credits who left the school while still in high school are experiencing the same problem as the school is unaccredited.