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Traverse Bay ISD Considers Giving Nearly $5 Million In School Funding Away To Yet Another For-Profit Charter School In Traverse City

Friday , 2, December 2016 Up North Progressive Religious Fundamentalism, Section 16 2 Comments

Apparently the malignant tumor known as Grand Traverse Academy isn’t enough. Northwestern Michigan College and Traverse Bay Area ISD are being asked to authorize a new for-profit charter school in the Grand Traverse area based on the Hillsdale “classical” education model according to the Traverse City Record Eagle. Traverse Classical Academy is the fever dream […]

So Far “Classical” Education Not Strong In History or English: Tea Party Charter School

Saturday , 12, December 2015 Up North Progressive Section 16, Tea Party Charter School Leave a comment

So if I read this correctly, Islam won’t be a totalitarian theocracy if they have better breathing. It’s funny when a guy promoting for-profit schools that will teach Americans are better off living in a religious totalitarian theocracy condemns a religious totalitarian theocracy.

Lockheed Martin Employee Arthur Karros Explains The Proper Way To Spend Taxpayer Dollars To Us Elite Liberals

Tuesday , 23, June 2015 Up North Progressive Tea Party Charter School Leave a comment

Nearly every day Up North Progressive receives comments from readers with both positive and negative feedback. One article that seems to cause the most grief so far is this one, because how dare anyone call out a college for opening schools, right? The most recent comment to this article comes from a man who works […]

Tea Party Charter School’s Pasquale Battaglia

Friday , 15, May 2015 Up North Progressive Section 16, Tea Party Charter School 2 Comments

Still on the internet. Stay classy, Pat. Also still hawking classical education, even telling one person his plans to open a hundred of them – each YEAR.

It’s Only A Crime When Someone I’m Afraid Of Does It: Tea Party Charter School Justice

Wednesday , 18, March 2015 Up North Progressive Section 16, Tea Party, Tea Party Charter School, Tealiban Leave a comment

On March 15, 2015 Jay McNally issued a statement that the prosecutor in Livingston County would go forward with pressing misdemeanor charges against Glen Ikens after his arrest on February 28th from Lindbom Elementary School, where an open house was being held for people interested in the proposed Hillsdale College classical charter school. The Livingston […]

Pasquale Battaglia: Still Pushing For Tea Party Charter School

Friday , 13, March 2015 Up North Progressive Section 16, Tea Party 1 Comment

And still demonstrating why he has no business ever opening a school at all. Scientists warning about climate change, which is very real and very much due to human activity, is just a ploy to get more money from the government. Not unlike a certain racist tea party member who wants the government to fund […]

The Hypocrisy of Hillsdale College’s Charter School Model

Wednesday , 28, January 2015 Up North Progressive Section 16, Tea Party 56 Comments

There is good news for the students and parents of Brighton Public Schools and the taxpayers of Michigan. The Brighton Public School Board voted not to charter Pasquale Battaglia’s American Classical Academy on January 26. This is after many people voiced their objection to a charter school opening in their community that would take students […]

“Classical” Education Spreading Up North To Traverse City

Saturday , 6, December 2014 Up North Progressive Section 16 1 Comment

As if the chaos surrounding for-profit charter school Grand Traverse Academy isn’t enough to convince you that the charter school fiasco in Michigan is … well, a fiasco, there are plans in the works to open up yet another for-profit charter school in Traverse City. The people responsible for this want to open their school […]

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