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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 […]

Brighton Area Schools Say No To Battaglia’s ‘Life’s Passion’: And A Response From A Challenger About Hillsdale College Promoting Religious Schools

Wednesday , 11, February 2015 Up North Progressive Section 16 4 Comments

On Monday night in a 6 to 1 vote the Brighton Area Schools board decided not to charter Pasquale Battaglia’s Hillsdale College American “classical” academy. As the parents and concerned citizens of Brighton are relieved that their district won’t be responsible for allowing this school to open in their district, the people involved with the […]

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 […]

Tea Party Charter School

Sunday , 23, November 2014 Up North Progressive Section 16 15 Comments

No one should ever forget that one of the leaders in the profits before kids charter school movement is Hillsdale College. Their brand of for-profit charter schools which they call, “Classical Education”, is a nice way of saying Christian conservative education that bears little relevance to what students actually need to be prepared in a […]