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Showing posts with label Dove Science Academy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dove Science Academy. Show all posts
Friday, December 29, 2017
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Sunday, July 30, 2017
Gulen Charter Schools under US scrutiny
FETO, a designated terror group in Turkey, has established itself abroad through companies, foundations, media outlets and charter schools.
The leader of the network, Fethullah Gulen is accused by Turkey of being behind a bloody coup attempt which left 249 people dead and more than 2,000 injured in the country last July.
Gulen, currently living in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, has denied the charge and continues to fight against Ankara's extradition demands.
His movement controls 163 schools across the country, teaching around 70,000 students. Now some schools linked to his network have come under investigation in the US over allegations of financial misconduct.
"In the state of New Jersey alone, a chain of charter schools is linked to the Gulen Movement, also known as FETO. The organisation's attempt to launch a fifth school in this state was denied, after the board of education said it had used "forged and fraudulent" petitions to show community support for its initiative," Ersin Konkur, a former maths teacher in a Gulen-linked school, told TRT World.
Saturday, February 18, 2017
Christopher Vian - Openly Gay Teacher of Gulen Dove Science Academy and Gulen apologist ETHICS BOWL representative of Oklahoma
Gulenists at Dove Science Academy stole the lunch money budget of their students surrounding schools were forced to feed their students
Why are they representing Oklahoma in a Ethics Club National Debate?
http://guleninvestigation.com/students-lunch-money-embezzled/
Here is the disgusting tweets of Dove Science Academy teacher Christopher Vian who is openly Gay
and was merely hired in November 2016. Christopher justifies their "Ethics Club" and the firing of a teacher 2 weeks ago who claims she was fired for being Christian and leading her class into the pledge of allegiance.
Remember, this school is under state audit and has stolen lunch money from the students via a real estate scam. Not much ethics in Christopher Vian disparaging an American teacher who was fired from Dove Science Academy for being "Christian" (her words) and he goes on to disparage her and show his hatred toward non Liberals.
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| Dove Science Academy Teacher and Gulen enabler Openly Gay (not that it matters) CHRISTOPHER VIAN TWEETS OF DOVE SCIENCE ACADEMY TEACHER - claims she was fired for being a Christian and leading the class in the Pledge of Allegiance. Dove Science Academy has been under audit since April 2016 copy of audit has been previously discussed. Mr. Vian seems to justify raising money for a Gulen Shit show is perfectly fine then justifies the firing of another American Teacher by saying she was "Racist, Bigot and other labels while he continued to say it was "about the children" and hide behind the students in the typical Gulen fashion of "Why should students suffer because of the adults?"
Looks like the biggest donors of this fund raiser for "CHARACTER" Is some of the gulenists, that stole millions from the state of Oklahoma
 have a team compete in the Ethics Bowl in NYC #GulenComedy 
Six schools from across the state have been named 2017 Oklahoma Schools of Character: Dove Science Academy OKC, Oklahoma City; Dove Science Academy Elementary, Oklahoma City; Dove Science Academy Tulsa; Eisenhower High School, Lawton; Pryor Junior High; and Whittier Elementary School, Muskogee.
The Schools of Character were chosen by OKchacter.org, Character.org and the state Education Department, and will be recognized by the Oklahoma Legislature in the spring.
Additionally, each school will be submitted for selection as a 2017 National School of Character, according to a news release.
Dove Science Academy OKC, 919 NW 23, will hold an assembly at 10 a.m. Friday to celebrate the honor and also for presentation of Student Education and Ethics Development High School Ethics Bowl winners. The public is invited.
Why would Oklahoma name a school to the Ethics Bowl that is under investigation?
http://newsok.com/article/5537621
DO NOT DONATE TO THIS THEY DON'T DESERVE TO HIDE BEHIND CHILDREN.
Here is the latest Dove Science Academy NEW Superintendent of course they selected a Turkish Male Gulenists. Americans no need to apply unless you are desperate like Christoper Vian who was fired from public schools and seems to think being a Chicken Shit ass kisser for Dove Science Academy will guarantee him a job.
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Monday, November 7, 2016
Gulen-affiliated charter schools are bad apples?
Gulen-affiliated charter schools are bad apples?
The Gulen-affiliated charter schools are finally getting the negative attention they deserve from law enforcement, the media and others. The Gulen-affiliated charter schools are the second largest charter chain in the United States, second only to the KIPP network of charter schools. If you want to understand depth, breadth and shocking nature of the alleged malfeasance against Gulen-affiliated charter schools, check out the film Killing Ed. According to the film, the Gulen-affiliated charter schools are some of the worst proverbial bad apples in the charter sector.
What is really disconcerting about charter schools is that they stick together like glue. They use their charter lobbying associations in California, Texas and elsewhere to fervently protect these bad apples regardless of alleged illegal activity.
This came today from the Arnold public relations firm.
Texas is not the only state where Gulen-affiliated charter schools are under investigation by state or federal agencies for misuse of public funds. In Texas, the Harmony Schools are part of the Gulen network. In other states, Gulen-affiliated schools go by different names. Here’s a quick summary of just some of the investigations that raise serious concerns about how these schools are spending taxpayer dollars. The patterns in each of these states, including Texas, are remarkably similar.OHIO, ILLINOIS, AND INDIANA – FBI RAIDS CONCEPT SCHOOLS
- The FBI raided the headquarters of Concept Schools and 18 sites in three states in 2014 as part of an ongoing investigation into a “white-collar-crime matter” in which Concept Schools is accused of defrauding the federal government by violating competitive bidding rules related to a federally funded program for low-income students (E-RATE program).
- Court documents released in 2015 show that Concept is suspected of funneling over $5 million in federal funds to insider vendors through a rigged bidding process.
- The whistle-blower who provided documents to the FBI stated that Concept has routinely used taxpayer money to hire contractors who are involved in Gulen’s worldwide movement.
For more information:NEW YORK – STATE COMPTROLLER FINDS INSIDER REAL ESTATE TRANSACTION
- The New York State Comptroller audited the Buffalo Academy of Science in 2013 and found that the School had leased a building from an unlikely company with little real estate experience.
- The company that leased the building to the school, Apple Educational Services, is a Turkish-run business with ties to other Turkish vendors and organizations.
- The audit included the following findings: The lease agreement would pay the owners $4.4 million more than their cost- a 200% return on investment – and benefited the owners more than the school.
The process used to select the lessor was not transparent and did not evaluate available options; the audit also questioned whether it was an “arm’s length transaction.”For more information:OKLAHOMA – AUDIT DOCUMENTS EXCESSIVE RENTAL PAYMENTS
- The Oklahoma State Auditor (2016) documented excessive rental payments made by the Dove Science Academies to its managing nonprofit organization, the Sky Foundation.
- The audit found that the Sky Foundation collected almost $3.2 million more in lease payments for rental of a school site than it paid to originally purchase the property.
- Essentially the schools were redirecting school funds to themselves since the Dove schools and the Sky Foundation are the same entity.
- The audit also found a $175,000 transfer of funds from Sky to Harmony Public School for a science competition – but no Oklahoma students even attended the event.
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Thursday, October 13, 2016
Gulen Charter Schools are bad apples!!!!
The Gulen-affiliated charter schools are finally getting the negative attention they deserve from law enforcement, the media and others. The Gulen-affiliated charter schools are the second largest charter chain in the United States, second only to the KIPP network of charter schools. If you want to understand depth, breadth and shocking nature of the alleged malfeasance against Gulen-affiliated charter schools, check out the film Killing Ed. According to the film, the Gulen-affiliated charter schools are some of the worst proverbial bad apples in the charter sector.
What is really disconcerting about charter schools is that they stick together like glue. They use their charter lobbying associations in California, Texas and elsewhere to fervently protect these bad apples regardless of alleged illegal activity.
This came today from the Arnold public relations firm.
Texas is not the only state where Gulen-affiliated charter schools are under investigation by state or federal agencies for misuse of public funds. In Texas, the Harmony Schools are part of the Gulen network. In other states, Gulen-affiliated schools go by different names. Here’s a quick summary of just some of the investigations that raise serious concerns about how these schools are spending taxpayer dollars. The patterns in each of these states, including Texas, are remarkably similar.OHIO, ILLINOIS, AND INDIANA – FBI RAIDS CONCEPT SCHOOLS
- The FBI raided the headquarters of Concept Schools and 18 sites in three states in 2014 as part of an ongoing investigation into a “white-collar-crime matter” in which Concept Schools is accused of defrauding the federal government by violating competitive bidding rules related to a federally funded program for low-income students (E-RATE program).
- Court documents released in 2015 show that Concept is suspected of funneling over $5 million in federal funds to insider vendors through a rigged bidding process.
- The whistle-blower who provided documents to the FBI stated that Concept has routinely used taxpayer money to hire contractors who are involved in Gulen’s worldwide movement.
For more information:NEW YORK – STATE COMPTROLLER FINDS INSIDER REAL ESTATE TRANSACTION
- The New York State Comptroller audited the Buffalo Academy of Science in 2013 and found that the School had leased a building from an unlikely company with little real estate experience.
- The company that leased the building to the school, Apple Educational Services, is a Turkish-run business with ties to other Turkish vendors and organizations.
- The audit included the following findings: The lease agreement would pay the owners $4.4 million more than their cost- a 200% return on investment – and benefited the owners more than the school.
The process used to select the lessor was not transparent and did not evaluate available options; the audit also questioned whether it was an “arm’s length transaction.”For more information:OKLAHOMA – AUDIT DOCUMENTS EXCESSIVE RENTAL PAYMENTS
- The Oklahoma State Auditor (2016) documented excessive rental payments made by the Dove Science Academies to its managing nonprofit organization, the Sky Foundation.
- The audit found that the Sky Foundation collected almost $3.2 million more in lease payments for rental of a school site than it paid to originally purchase the property.
- Essentially the schools were redirecting school funds to themselves since the Dove schools and the Sky Foundation are the same entity.
- The audit also found a $175,000 transfer of funds from Sky to Harmony Public School for a science competition – but no Oklahoma students even attended the event.
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Saturday, April 23, 2016
Dove Science Academy Gulen School RAPE on Campus now a statewide audit.
Now these troubled Gulen schools in Oklahoma are under state investigation
for once again double billing American tax payers on their lease buildings
Their audit proved they overbilled Americans by about $3 million dollars.
State audit questions charter schools' site lease payments
http://newsok.com/article/5485472
The foundation that operates Dove Charter Schools in Oklahoma City and Tulsa has billed the public millions of dollars more in lease payments for its school buildings than the foundation has paid to rent and purchase the buildings, according to a state audit released Wednesday.
The Sky Foundation, which manages Dove Charter Schools, has collected about $3.182 million more in lease payments for use of the Dove Science Academy-OKC school site than it paid to originally purchase the property, auditors said.
“We could find no legitimate purpose for the continued charging of lease payments above and beyond the purchase price of the facility,” auditors said. Over a two year period — from July 1, 2012, through June 30, 2014 — the foundation also collected $1,192,442 more in public fund lease payments from the Dove Charter Schools than the foundation paid to lease those other schools, auditors found.
“This has been going on for a long time. We just looked at a couple of years,” state Auditor Gary Jones said.
The Sky Foundation manages the Dove schools, which include Dove Science Academy-OKC, Dove Science Elementary-OKC, Discovery School of Tulsa and Dove Science Academy-Tulsa.
Officials with Dove Charter Schools did not return voicemail messages Wednesday afternoon seeking comment.
School foundations normally are created to provide private financial assistance to schools, but the Sky Foundation didn't operate that way, auditors said.
“We did not find any evidence of Sky soliciting funds on behalf of the schools or donating funds to the schools,” auditors said. “It appears the schools were supporting Sky instead of Sky supporting the schools.”
Auditors said the limited scope of the audit didn't allow them to track where all of the excess money from lease payments went but indicated some of the money may have been spent inappropriately.
'Apparent violation'
The Sky Foundation made $175,000 in payments to Harmony Public Schools, a Houston charter school system, to sponsor a science fair competition open to high school students worldwide, auditors said.
“No Dove Charter School students attended,” auditors said. “This was not a legitimate school purpose, an apparent violation of both the school's charter and ... the Oklahoma Constitution.”
Although it occurred outside the time period being audited, state auditors also noted that the Sky Foundation bought the Raindrop Turkish House at 4444 N Classen Blvd. in Oklahoma City for $780,000 in May 2008 and sold it a little more than two years later for $1,025,000, realizing a profit of $245,000.
“We believe the funds used to purchase this building and the profit received in the sale of the building should be satisfactorily accounted for,” auditors said, suggesting the need for a follow-up audit.
Dove Academy audit should give OKCPS pause
https://nondoc.com/2016/03/25/dove-academy-audit-should-give-okcps-pause/
Oklahoma is now paying the price for a decade of efforts to shrink government to the point where it could be drowned in a bathtub.
In our notoriously “red” state, it is no surprise that the fingerprints of the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) are all over our disastrous policies. We should not forget, however, that liberal and neoliberal think tanks have been equally destructive in terms of education policy.
For instance, the corporate-reform Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) has gained a foothold in Tulsa, and its “portfolio strategy” seems to be the model that inspired Oklahoma City’s dangerous flirtation with the mass charterization of neighborhood schools.
The CRPE not only seeks to cripple teachers’ unions and local school boards, but it also wants to hamstring the state’s education departments. While its campaigns to privatize local school systems are better known, the CRPE would undermine the state’s regulatory power. It would stop states from setting class-size requirements and staffing ratios and prohibit the state from establishing local funding-distribution formulas. The CRPE would even prohibit the state from offering professional development trainings for teachers.
Dove Academy’s lease issues
I have intentionally begun this post with a wonky review of policy before addressing this blockbuster education headline from NewsOK.com: State audit questions charter schools site lease payments.
Such a headline alone is not shocking, but, because the charters — Dove Academy schools in Oklahoma City and Tulsa — are a part of the controversial Gülen chain, educators who have followed a decade of revelations about that charter-management organization will be hungry to learn more.
Reporter Randy Ellis broke the story:
The Sky Foundation, which manages Dove Charter Schools, has collected about $3.182 million more in lease payments for use of the Dove Science Academy-OKC school site than it paid to originally purchase the property, auditors said.“We could find no legitimate purpose for the continued charging of lease payments above and beyond the purchase price of the facility,” auditors said.Over a two year period — from July 1, 2012, through June 30, 2014 — the foundation also collected $1,192,442 more in public fund lease payments from the Dove Charter Schools than the foundation paid to lease those other schools, auditors found.
The auditors also found “an apparent violation of both the school’s charter and … the Oklahoma Constitution” when the Sky Foundation paid $175,000 to a Houston charter school system to sponsor a science fair competition that no Dove students attended.
School foundations normally provide financial assistance to schools, but the Sky Foundation operated in the opposite way. Auditors said, “We did not find any evidence of Sky soliciting funds on behalf of the schools or donating funds to the schools. … It appears the schools were supporting Sky instead of Sky supporting the schools.”
Part of a national battle
I hope this introduction to the issue is boring and complicated enough to keep any sort of xenophobia from slipping into the rest of the story. I have intentionally buried the lede in an effort to reduce the chance that the Dove/Gülen/Sky Foundation story provides aid and comfort to anti-Muslim bigotry.
In reality, this is part of a national education story, where Oklahoma City serves as just one of the battlegrounds. As Atlantic Magazine’s Scott Beauchamp explains, Dove Academy is a part of a larger story:
It reads like something out of a John Le Carre novel: The charismatic Sunni imam Fethullah Gülen, leader of a politically powerful Turkish religious movement likened by The Guardian to an “Islamic Opus Dei,” occasionally webcasts sermons from self-imposed exile in the Poconos while his organization quickly grows to head the largest chain of charter schools in America. It might sound quite foreboding — and it should, but not for the reasons you might think.
Here’s the narrative that applies to Oklahoma and our schools.
As Diane Ravitch, 60 Minutes, blogger Sharon Higgins, Beauchamp and other investigative journalists and education writers have documented, this is a scandal that is linked to the efforts of ALEC, the New York Charter School Association and other neoliberal groups to free schools from government regulations.
As early as 2009, Ravitch wrote of the ALEC effort in North Carolina to create a system where “charters would not be required to hire certified teachers. Charter school staff would not be required to pass criminal background checks. The proposed law would not require any checks for conflicts of interest—not for commission members or for the charter schools.”
The Atlantic’s Beauchamp agrees: “In other words, it isn’t the Gülen movement that makes Gülen charter schools so secretive. It’s the charter school movement itself.”
The Atlantic journalist explains that “these schools might be suspect for reasons that are completely unrelated to Islamic doctrine.” They have been involved in irregularities in several states, including Ohio. He reviews the controversies in Utah, Texas and New York before concluding with a situation in the Buckeye State:
I contacted Matthew Blair, and he told me that the problems with the Gülen schools were merely symptomatic of a larger problem within the state’s education system. “The charter school system in Ohio is broken beyond repair,” he wrote in an email. “As it is, charter schools operate in a lawless frontier. Regulations are few and far between. Those that exist are consistently and consciously overlooked.”
The FBI raided more than 19 Gülen-operated academies in Ohio and two other states. Their warrant allowed them to search for information involving the E-rate program — a federal program that, according to the Chicago Sun-Times, “pays for schools to expand telecommunications and Internet access.”
The FBI had previously raided a New Orleans charter school. This is significant because that city’s Recovery School District is the model for the CRPE’s portfolio strategy for mass charterization of public schools. The OKCPS charter plan seems to be the latest effort to impose such a portfolio model on an unsuspecting school system.
That brings us back to the reason for Oklahoma’s audit of Dove Academy charters. Gary Jones ordered the audit at the request of the Department of Education. In other words, we should think twice before stripping regulatory power from education departments.
It also provides an opportunity to remember that charges do not equal conviction. Moreover, under no circumstances should guilt by association be applied to local advocates of the Oklahoma City plan to scale up charters.
But it is relevant in one crucial way: Supporters of the OKCPS mass charterization plan voice confidence that the district can require charters to stick to their promises to accept all children in the neighborhoods that they serve and not push out special education students and kids who are more difficult to serve.
The Dove Academy and Gülen charter story should give them pause and a chance to rethink their ability to hold local charters and national charter chains 
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