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Saturday, March 15, 2014
Turkish Olympiad-A Gulen "show": Turkish Olympiads a danger to attendees, students ...
Turkish Olympiad-A Gulen "show": Turkish Olympiads a danger to attendees, students ...: Foreign Minister Davutoğlu is seen with government officials and foreign children during the closing ceremony of the Eighth Turkish Oly...
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Magnolia Science Academy - A Gulen Charter School: Magnolia Science Academy (Magnolia Public Schools)...
Magnolia Science Academy - A Gulen Charter School: Magnolia Science Academy (Magnolia Public Schools)...: OVERVIEW OF TAPED SESSION TAPED SESSION HERE http://lausd.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?clip_id=149 The Armenian Genocide item star...
Gulen Charter School application for Maine DENIED "Lies" were cited possible prosecution by State Attorney General
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| State Attorney General of Maine may be contacted, Gulen Turkish group not invited back to apply after lying and misrepresentation to the board. This is a huge blow to the Gulen Movement who invested thousands of dollars in campaign contributions, trips to Turkey and honors only to get the shaft.
“You lied to me once. I don’t want to hear
from you again,” Smith said, explaining false claims that a former mayor and
city official backed the project were significant.
Reasons for the recommended denial of the charter school include the
fact that the proposal for that school lacks alignment to Maine Learning
Results, graduation standards would not support Maine's proficiency-based diploma,
and there is a lack of alignment to the state assessments.
Also, the subcommittee noted that community contacts mentioned in the
application for various members of the Lewiston-Auburn community need to be
actual letters of support, and that merely recognizing the contacts does not
mean support for the application.
* And individuals mentioned in the
application were contacted by the charter school, the report found. They did
not all endorse the school as the application states. Applicants need to be
sure about providing “actual" letters of support and recognizing that
meeting with someone does "not necessarily mean support.”
“Commissioner Heidi Sampson said she
researched backgrounds of the charter school’s applicants, Tarlan Ahmadov and
Huseyin Kara, and said their assurances that the school had no ties to the
Turkish Gulen movement “does not hold water.”
“How can these applicants say they are ‘Gulen
inspired but not Gulen influenced?’” Sampson said. “If it walks like a duck,
talks like a duck, you can call it any sort of aquatic, avian creature but it
still has the DNA of a duck coursing through its entire body.”
There will be no publicly financed charter school opening in
Lewiston-Auburn this fall.
A state commission not only voted unanimously Monday to deny the
application of the Lewiston-Auburn Academy Charter School, it voted to strike
language in a report inviting the school with Turkish ties from applying again.
And two members of the Maine Charter School Committee blasted the
applicants for falsifying claims that community leaders, including former
Lewiston Mayor Larry Gilbert, endorsed the charter school when they had not.
Kara
and Ahmadov did not attend Monday’s hearing. In past meetings, they said Kara
was Turkish but the proposed school was simply a charter school modeled after
the high-performing Pioneer Charter School of Science in Massachusetts, where
students have success.
"We
believe in separation of church and state," Kara has said.
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Sunday, February 9, 2014
Gulen linked to US Charter Schools involved with Turkey's political drama
A Muslim cleric who lives in
seclusion in Pennsylvania and has been linked to a network of more than 135
public charter schools in the United States is believed to be deeply involved
in the political drama that is unfolding in his home country of Turkey.
The reclusive cleric is
Fethullah Gulen, who has been linked to charter schools in some 25 states and
to other schools in dozens of countries around the world. Gulen, who
has denounced terrorism and is said to believe in a moderate form of Islam, has
lived in Pennsylvania for years. Gulen was until recently a close ally of
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose government has been deeply
shaken by a corruption investigation. The prime minister just replaced
three of his key ministers after they were forced to resign in the
scandal.
According to the Associated
Press:
Proposed Gulen Charter School (Coral Science Academy) in Washington DENIED
The Coral Academy is networked through Accord Institute for Education Research, whose COO, Erdinc Acar, is the proposed Education Director for Carol Science Academy.
I read the proposal for this charter school and wondered how, with its STEM based curriculum and “high standards”, students with special ed needs could fit within this program. Nothing was mentioned.
The other concern is the ties that the Coral Academy of Science has with the Gulen Movement and what that means.
From The Gulen Movement: “a non-transparent organizational model”
The leading US authority on the Gulen Movement (GM) at this time is Joshua Hendrick, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Loyola University Maryland. His new book “Gulen: The Ambiguous Politics of Market Islam in Turkey and the World” was published in August 2013 by New York University Press. Fifteen pages are devoted to the Gulen charter school situation and are worth your investment in the book. From page 230:
SEATTLE
— The Washington State Charter Schools Association approved 7 new charter
schools however the Gulen operated Coral Science Academy was not one of
them. Please read here:
Proposed Gulen Charter School in Delaware is DENIED
It didn’t take long — only one week — for three of the eight
applicants for new charter schools to be told they did not make the grade.
“We’re becoming more rigorous,” said Jennifer Nagourney, head of the Charter
School Office in the state Department of Education. “That’s one of the
hallmarks of a high-quality authorizer.” On Jan.9, she notified organizers of
the proposed Delaware Math & IT Academy, STEAM Charter Academy and
Education Plus Academy Charter School that their applications were incomplete
and failed to satisfy basic requirements. Many of the deficiencies cited were
related to information about the schools’ leadership and staffing plans. -
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