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Saturday , 16, July 2022 Up North Progressive Community, GEO Group, LGBT Rights, MAGA, Punk Prison, Tea Party Charter School Leave a comment

Hello and welcome back. Up North Progressive went on hiatus after a six-month secret project that caused more mental and emotional damage than anticipated. What was the project? Six months working at a charter school. After years of writing about the deplorable state of for-profit charter schools, the opportunity came to find out what it’s […]

A Children’s Treasury of Reader Comments from a Three Year Old Article Generating Daily Traffic

Sunday , 29, July 2018 Up North Progressive Religious Fundamentalism, Section 16, Tea Party Charter School Leave a comment

On January 28, 2015, Up North Progressive published an article about Hillsdale College’s very own project to inject Hillsdale style far-right authoritarian agenda into education and get taxpayer money to foot the bill. The article came about after Brighton local residents asked this blog to expose the degenerate savage trying to drill up support for […]

Tea Party Charter School is One Vote Away From Becoming Reality

Monday , 14, March 2016 Up North Progressive Section 16, Tea Party Charter School 3 Comments

The school based on a strict right-wing conservative agenda is one vote away from opening this fall. Livingston LindbomAmericanChristian Classical Academy found a home in Whitmore Lake Public Schools. The school board granted them a charter in January, and on March 5 the LCA committee held an open house. Tonight, the Charter Township of Brighton […]

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.

Sarah B of Ypsilanti Insists Castlebond Never Managed Gateway To Success Academy: Who Cares?

Saturday , 7, November 2015 Up North Progressive Dr. Ingersoll, Gateway To Success Academy, Section 16, Tea Party Charter School 2 Comments

Apparently, the commenter from Ypsilanti does. Almost a month after leaving a comment on this story, she returned to leave another comment. Despite the Michigan Department of Education listing Castlebond Enterprises as the for-profit manager of Gateway To Success, it was never ever true. West Shore Education Service District has no clue what they’re doing […]

What Has Tea Party Charter School Founder Pasquale Battaglia Been Up To Lately?

Friday , 28, August 2015 Up North Progressive Section 16, Tea Party Charter School 4 Comments

As of April, 2015, Tea Party Charter School aka Livingston Classical Academy was still in search of an authorizer for their for-profit charter school. It’s been rather quiet since this past spring, when a member of the public attempting to attend an open to the public open house was arrested because the owner of the […]

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.

Tea Party Charter School Has A NEW Website (In Development Stages)

Friday , 17, April 2015 Up North Progressive Section 16, Tea Party Charter School 2 Comments

Pasquale Battaglia was busy Wednesday afternoon helping Cindy Gamrat ban herself indefinitely from the Michigan House Republican Caucus after posting a status on facebook complaining the other people at the meeting don’t worship God the free market as much as she does. Battaglia has plenty of experience with using social media to expose himself as […]

Tea Party Charter School Has A New Lobbyist: Barney Charter School Initiative Director Philip Kilgore

Wednesday , 1, April 2015 Up North Progressive Section 16, Tea Party Charter School Leave a comment

While Pasquale Battaglia and friends still frantically search for someone, anyone to charter it’s not really a taxpayer-funded Christian school Livingston Classical Academy (or is it Lindbom?), there’s a new friend joining the LCA team to help the God And Country Education Project become a taxpayer funded, for-profit charter school – Hillsdale College’s Barney Charter […]