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Scottville’s About To Get A Taste of For-Profit Education: New Charter School To Replace Alternative Ed

Saturday , 29, August 2015 Up North Progressive Section 16 6 Comments

So you have an alternative education program in a small Northern Michigan town with a dedicated teaching staff and successful program with over 100 students enrolled consistently year after year. There’s just no way you could possibly screw this up, right? There is a way, and Ludington Area Schools did just that this summer when […]

Journalist Of The Year Jennifer Dixon Brings Steve Ingersoll To The Detroit Free Press

Monday , 9, February 2015 Up North Progressive Dr. Ingersoll, Section 16, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Detroit 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 […]

Eleven For-Profit Charter School Authorizers Under The Gun For Poor Performance

Monday , 11, August 2014 Up North Progressive Section 16 Leave a comment

Today the Michigan Department of Education listed 11 charter school authorizers who have not met expectations for providing oversight with the charter school management companies they issued charters to open schools. If they do not improve, they face suspension and will no longer be able to issue charters. Of the list of 11 authorizers, Lake […]

Reinventing The Curriculum Wheel: The Continuing Story of Dr. Steve Ingersoll

Saturday , 31, May 2014 Up North Progressive Dr. Ingersoll, Section 16 2 Comments

When you’re an optometrist in the charter school business and your business model is based on selling parents eyeglasses for their children and curing them of ADHD with your own personal brand of vision therapy, it becomes necessary to also develop curriculum that supports the education concepts of that model. Dr Ingersoll claims to have […]

Stealing Michigan Taxpayers’ Money The Charter School Way: The Story of Dr. Steve Ingersoll

Monday , 5, May 2014 Up North Progressive Dr. Ingersoll, Section 16 2 Comments

One month ago Dr. Steve Ingersoll and his wife Deborah were both charged with several counts of fraud, including defrauding Chemical Bank, the United States and tax evasion by a federal grand jury. The optometrist and wife team, along with his brother and another couple who owned a construction company engaged in a dizzy dance […]