New School built in North Brownsville, TX Harmony School of Innovation

Harmony to build new school in North Brownsville

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Staff Report | Posted 1 week ago

Harmony Public Schools has broken ground on a new school at 3451 Dana Road
 to be called Harmony School of Innovation and serve sixth- through 12th-grade students.

Like all Harmony schools, the new campus will specialize in instruction in the STEM 
fields of science, technology, engineering and math.

Harmony officials said they had a waiting list of 800 students wanting to study at the
new school, which has a capacity of 600 students. The Harmony School of Innovation
  is scheduled to open for the 2017-2018 school year.

HarmonyScienceAcademy--Brownsville, 1124 Central Blvd., will continue to serve
 pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade students. After the new school opens,
Harmony will be able to expand programs for the younger students, school officials said.

“Families are eager to see their students succeed in lucrative careers and that starts
with an excellent education,” Harmony Principal Mustafa Altindag said.
“The opening of this campus is just another step in Harmony’s mission to
provide quality, STEM-centered education to Texas students.”

HarmonyScienceAcademy -- Brownsville has been in operation for nine years.
 It earned all seven state distinctions for academic performance in 2016.
The school’s first graduating class received diplomas in 2013.

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Harmony Science Academy staff and local officals join last week to break ground on the new Harmony School of Innovation.

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Texas Charter School Dispute Involves Turkish Government

Harmony Public Schools has 46 Texas campuses, including six in Austin.

Harmony has been accused of having ties to a controversial Muslim cleric; school officials deny it.

Harmony has been accused of hiring Turkish teachers over American teachers

Spending $7 million over a 15-year-period to hire foreign teachers. Paying those teachers as much as $18,000 per year more than their American peers. Awarding multimillion dollar contracts to former employees.

Those are just a few of the allegations that the Turkish government has hurled at the Houston-based Harmony Public Schools in what appears to be a foreign political battle spilling onto Texas soil.

Attorneys representing Turkey filed a 32-page complaint to the Texas Education Agency in May about the state’s largest public charter school network, whose founders are Turkish-American. The document details accusations of discriminatory employment and unethical contract bidding practices, and ties to Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen, who is accused of trying to overthrow the Turkish government.

“That’s a lot of money flowing out to these affiliated companies and the total dollars are north of we think over $150 million,” said John Martin, attorney with international law firm Amsterdam & Partners LLP, about Harmony’s vendors. “There’s every red flag there that there is extensive self-dealing going on.”

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Harmony’s chief executive officer Soner Tarim said the charter network — which has 46 campuses in Texas including six in Austin — has been unfairly targeted. A majority of Turkish citizens who live in Texas voted against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2014 and the government thinks Harmony is behind it, he said.

“This is a baseless attack and it is nothing but harassment,” Tarim said. “I am sad to see a foreign agent … not only harass us but our state agencies. I’d rather spend my time to focus on Texas children.”

http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/dispute-over-texas-charter-school-network-involves/nrk5f/

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Harmony Science Academy Lubbock closes High School Gulen School

A Lubbock charter school is closing its high school's doors.

Harmony Science Academy, will no longer be a K through 12 school as of next year. 

Current juniors and seniors will have the option to stay at Harmony through graduation, but 9th and 10th graders will have to enroll at other Lubbock schools. 

Julie Norton, Director of Communications for Harmony said the decision is due to a lack of enrollment and the need to strengthen the elementary and middle school programs.

"At Harmony public schools it's a top priority for us to make sure that we are offering students a really robust program. So we really will be able to spend more resources and energy focusing on our K8 programs and it will allow us to be able to expand the K8 programs as well," Norton said.

Norton said no teachers will lose their job, and the high school educators will be reassigned to the lower grades.

http://www.myfoxlubbock.com/news/local/story/charter-closing-hs/y_jZYkW8l0aRoY6b2lQOww.cspx

 

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