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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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

Quiverfull, Homeschooling, and Religious Fundamentalism: The Rot From Within That Threatens America

Tuesday , 26, May 2015 Up North Progressive Religious Fundamentalism 3 Comments

Last week, Quiverfull cult member Josh Duggar admitted he had raped his sisters and girls in another family when he was a teen living in the home of the Christian patriarchy family brought into American homes via television. TLC has since canceled the show and several people within the religious fundamentalism movement, like Mike Huckabee, […]

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.

“Do As I Say, Not As I Do”: Hillsdale College Is The Ugliest Thing Of All

Saturday , 9, May 2015 Up North Progressive LGBT Rights, Same Sex Marriage 13 Comments

A recent mass email sent out by the chaplain of Hillsdale College caused a stir this week. The email, sent by Peter Beckwith, warned, “ugly things are happening in the Supreme Court.” He also stated, “I do not even think we can imagine the effects this could have on our nation, the church, and families.” […]

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 […]

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 […]