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Up North Progressive Accepts the Challenge: Consider What’s Wrong With For-Profit Charter Schools
Tuesday , 20, June 2017 Dr. Ingersoll, Section 16 Leave a commentAfter last week’s revelation that former Grand Traverse Academy Principal Brooke Capser accepted a position with Lowell School in Missoula, Montana, and tried to cover it up for weeks before the end of the school year, Up North Progressive received a challenge that perhaps not all of the facts in evidence were considered before publishing […]
@BetsyDeVosED: Yes She Really Said That About Historically Black Colleges Because She Really is That Willfully Dense
Tuesday , 28, February 2017 Religious Fundamentalism, Section 16 1 CommentIgnorant, insulting, and underhanded are words that best describe Betsy DeVos’s press release about historically black colleges and universities on February 27, 2017. You really have to read the whole thing to get the full impact: “It sure was nice black folks had the option of attending schools for black people because schools for white […]
That Moment In The Story When The Hero Finds Proof of The Villain’s Evil Plan: Richard D. McLellan’s 1990 Notes On School Choice
Monday , 23, March 2015 Section 16 7 CommentsIn Michigan, one of the first instances of school choice happened in the 1970s when Jack Hoekstra, president of the Kalamazoo School Board, tried to stop desegregation of Kalamazoo Public Schools by allowing parents to choose the school they wanted their kids to attend with the condition they were responsible for transportation. School choice has […]
Help Spread The Truth About Corporate Ed Reform During National School Choice Week
Tuesday , 27, January 2015 Section 16 Leave a commentThe Internet can be a place for information and communication with others, and sometimes it can be a place for mischief with hilarious results. Not everyone on the web thinks things through very well before launching their campaign. With a little effort, the people hustling school choice could find that out too if enough people […]
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 […]
The ABC’s of ACE: Biblical Discipline In Christian School
Friday , 10, October 2014 Nerd Problems, Section 16 7 Comments22 private church schools currently use Accelerated Christian Education in Michigan. Rick Snyder will push forward on school vouchers if he wins another term as Governor. We already know he wants to do this after the leaking of ‘Skunkworks’ in 2013. Dick and Betsy DeVos have spent far too much money on this election to […]
The ABC’s of ACE: Why Rick Snyder Must Be Voted Out November 4
Thursday , 18, September 2014 Nerd Problems, Section 16 2 CommentsRick Snyder has made it no secret during his 4 failed years as governor that he wants to privatize as many government institutions as possible. Education has been on his agenda since he took office in 2011. Snyder launched a program called the Education Achievement Authority, a for-profit education system that undermines the authority of […]
Some Northern Michigan Public Schools Have Higher Enrollment, But Still Suffer From Snyder’s State Budget Cuts
Thursday , 11, September 2014 Section 16 Leave a commentCadillac Public School’s fall student enrollment is higher than anticipated according to district superintendent Jo Spry. That’s good news for the district, because it means in October the 4th Friday Count will provide a boost in per-pupil funding. School tuition in Michigan is still below 2006 school spending levels in the state, and public schools […]
Betsy DeVos is a woman on a crusade. Her goal for the state of Michigan is one thing, and that is eliminating public education from the state forever. Since 2001 Betsy DeVos with her husband Dick have spent over a million dollars on supporting candidates in Michigan who vote the way they want on promoting […]