It dealt with a long-closed private school just outside of Ogdensburg, the Academy at Ivy Ridge, accusing some of the school ...

Robert "Bob" Lichfield founded the Worldwide Association of Speciality Programs and Schools, and the Academy at Ivy Ridge was one of more than 25 boarding schools or youth programs affiliated with ...

Ivy Ridge was marketed as a boarding school for teens with behavioral issues. A state education official in 2006 called it, “principally a behavior modification center.” Steve Caccamo ...

Some are extremely anxious to even go inside. The Gist: Ivy Ridge was a disciplinary boarding school, where parents would send their “problem” teens. There, the teens are put in a multi-level ...

The widespread abuse allegations at Ivy Ridge were back in the limelight on March 5 nearly 15 years after the school closed its doors in April 2009. The Academy at Ivy Ridge opened in 2001 and was ...

Ivy Ridge was marketed as a boarding school for teens with behavioral issues. A state education official in 2006 called it, “principally a behavior modification center.” In 2005, police were ...

and “Shut them down!” referring to institutions like Ivy Ridge that are billed as boarding schools for troubled teens. Former Academy at Ivy Ridge students gathered in Ogdensburg on Saturday ...

The top show on Netflix right now is about a former boarding school in Ogdensburg. It’s called “The Program” and is about the alleged abuse of students at Ivy Ridge, a school that was ...

Ivy Ridge operated in affiliation with the controversial and scandal-ridden World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS)Credit: Netflix "I just started f**king screaming ...

Former students of the Academy at Ivy Ridge have spoken out. This shuttered boarding school in Northern New York was marketed as a program for troubled teens in the early 2000s. However ...

The Academy at Ivy Ridge was part of the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools, a Utah-based company founded by Robert B. Lichfield, and was run as a disciplinary boarding ...

In 2001, an institution called Academy at Ivy Ridge was officially founded. Marketed as a boarding school that would help troubled teens, Ivy Ridge claimed to use therapy and recreational ...