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GUEST POST: Miss Fortune Ruminates About The Beginning of the End of Dr. Steven Ingersoll
Monday , 25, January 2016 Dr. Ingersoll, Section 16 2 CommentsLike a Grateful Dead free-form jam that seems to go on forever, Bay City Academy founder Steven Ingersoll’s federal sentencing hearing spectacle returns to U. S. District Court on Tuesday, January 26 for a three-day run. The disgraced charter school honcho’s month-long trial in Bay City ended on March 10, 2015, with a jury convicting […]
Three Words to Convince You For-Profit Charter Schools Are Wrong For Michigan: Doctor Steven Ingersoll
Tuesday , 6, October 2015 Dr. Ingersoll, Section 16 3 CommentsHave you been catching all the media coverage about Steve Ingersoll and his impending sentencing hearing on October 20, 2015? If you missed it, that’s because the media isn’t talking about all the pre-sentencing hijinks going on between the Bay City/Traverse City “philanthropist”, the court, and the federal government. As usual, the only place to […]
Journalist Of The Year Jennifer Dixon Brings Steve Ingersoll To The Detroit Free Press
Monday , 9, February 2015 Dr. Ingersoll, Section 16, Uncategorized Leave a commentDetroit Free Press investigative reporter Jennifer Dixon this week was honored as Michigan’s first Journalist of the year for her excellent eight-part series on for-profit charter schools in the state. She highly deserves this recognition, especially with her continued dedication to expose corporate reform of our public schools. Dixon this week reported on someone who’s […]