Up North Progressive
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HAUNTINGLY ACCURATE: For-Profit Charter School Insider Cites Up North Progressive in Poison Pen Letter
Wednesday , 31, March 2021 Dr. Ingersoll, Section 16, Uncategorized 3 CommentsUp North Progressive has been quiet lately due to working on a special project while occasionally coming up for air to tweetstorm anything with the hashtag #DefundBergman. Yesterday, Miss Fortune over at Glistening Quivering Underbelly shared a letter she received anonymously. The writer is a member of MAPSA and knows all of the inside dirt […]
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 […]
Something Something Rats Sinking Ship: Bay City Academy Advertises for First Grade Teacher on Facebook
Saturday , 3, September 2016 Dr. Ingersoll, Section 16 Leave a commentSometimes schools at the last minute find themselves in hiring situations when teachers and school staff find another job at another school. The job gets posted on the school’s website, and also school job websites like K12 Jobspot or REAP. But for-profit charter school Bay City Academy seems to think Facebook is a perfectly good […]
What Traverse City Area Public Schools Doesn’t Know About Jan Geht May Hurt Them
Monday , 11, July 2016 Dr. Ingersoll, Section 16 Leave a commentJan Geht is an attorney living in Traverse City, Michigan. He practices law for Bowerman, Bowden, Ford, Clulo & Luyt, P.C., and used to work for the Tax Division of the United States Justice Department as a trial attorney. Geht recently announced his candidacy for Traverse City Area Public Schools Board. His campaign website depicts […]
Another Former Bay City Academy Teacher Speaks: Steve and Brian Only See Dollar Signs
Thursday , 14, April 2016 Dr. Ingersoll, Section 16 1 CommentAll of the articles written about the criminal enterprise known as Bay City Academy are worth it when someone comes forward and confirms what we know must be happening inside the walls of this for-profit charter school. A former teacher of BCA bravely commented tonight to share the harsh truth: Rep. Charles Brunner is right […]
DeVos @GLEP_MI Lackey Gary Naeyaert Calls State Rep Charles Brunner Names: May Want To Beat Him Up and Steal His Lunch Money Too
Wednesday , 6, April 2016 Section 16 Leave a commentGary Naeyaert reached a new low tonight. Michigan State Representative Charles Brunner called out the Michigan Department of Education’s really bad decision to give Brian “gotta save my meal ticket” Lynch more time to reduce the debt of Bay City Academy. BCA is the charter school that finally exposed convicted felon Steve Ingersoll for the […]
It’s Just An Accounting Exercise Deemed Appropriate By My Accountants: The Continuing Story of Mark Noss and Steven Ingersoll
Tuesday , 5, April 2016 Dr. Ingersoll, Section 16 4 CommentsWhile the international press tears through 11.5 million documents leaked from the Panama financial firm, Mossack Fonseca, we have our own leaked shell game still unfolding in the sentencing hearing of Dr. Steve Ingersoll. Lots of dummy companies to spread lots of money around and make it magically disappear into Ingersoll’s pockets. Money he received […]
The Cat Who Needed Vision Therapy: The Continuing Story of Dr. Steve Ingersoll
Monday , 21, March 2016 Dr. Ingersoll, Section 16 1 CommentNotice how the kitten tries to catch the circles in the image on the paper? The kitten’s brain does the same thing as a human brain when they look at the same optical illusion. The circles on the edge move while the circles the eyes focus on remain stationary. This is because when we look at an […]
Thank You Glistening Quivering Underbelly For Your Excellent Work
Sunday , 24, January 2016 Dr. Ingersoll, Section 16 3 CommentsLast summer while the City of Flint suffered with lead poisoning and the Michigan media spent months laughing at tea party legislators Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat instead (thanks for reminding us, ABC), local media published stories about the foul water, people dying, and children getting sick. The state media paid no attention, and the […]
The Continuing Story of Dr. Steve Ingersoll: Now What About the Rest of Them?
Friday , 13, November 2015 Section 16 3 CommentsThings have certainly changed for Dr. Steve Ingersoll in just five short years. It was in January of 2010 when MAPSA posted this bit of news about Lake Superior State for-profit charter schools Grand Traverse Academy and Detroit Service Learning Academy getting together so DSLA could see Integrated Visual Learning at work. “Cutting-edge philosophy in […]