Right As Usual: Sneaking Islamic Teaching Under the Radar

Right As Usual: Sneaking Islamic Teaching Under the Radar: "I've been reading about the Gulen charter schools, which are teaching Islam under the guise of international education (primarily Turkish). ..."

TEA-Texas Education Agency updates policy on foreign teachers

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=2147489507&menu_id=771

Test Approval

Test-takers must be approved to register for exams. For exams administered by Educational Testing Service (ETS) and American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), approval is determined from the educators TEA account. American Association for family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) requires bar codes.

Pre-Admission Content Testing (PACT)  

A person who holds a bachelor’s degree or greater from an accredited university, and who has never been admitted to an SBEC-approved Educator Preparation Program, may take a Pre-Admission Content Test (PACT) to demonstrate content mastery.

Candidates in Educator Preparation Programs (EPPs)

Candidates enrolled in educator preparation programs are given approval from their EPP to test.

Additional Certification by Exam Candidates  

A teacher who holds a valid Texas classroom teaching certificate and a bachelor's degree may add classroom certification areas by successfully completing the appropriate certification test(s).  

Out of State and Out of Country Testing  

Candidates who hold teaching credentials from another state or country will need to apply for a review of credentials for information on obtaining Texas certification. TEA may determine that tests taken in another State may be comparable to Texas certification tests. If TEA determines that it is necessary to take more examinations, TEA will give the candidate approval for those examinations.

Charter School Testing

To fulfill the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) federal requirement to be highly qualified, charter school teachers must demonstrate content mastery in their assignment.

·         Available tests through this route are limited to those defined as core content areas by NCLB 

·         Passing a TExES test does not qualify charter school teachers for a Texas educator certificate.

·         No Child Left Behind Division

Harmony Science Academy- Rapid expansionism of the schools

The strong and mighty expansion of the Harmony Science Academy

http://www.slideshare.net/CASILIPS/rapid-expansion-harmony

MORE ABOUT GULEN CHARTER SCHOOL EXPANSIONISM HERE:
http://gulencharterschoolsusa.blogspot.com/2010/11/gulen-movement-and-expansionism-in.html

Texas Insider exposes Gulen and the Harmony Science Academys

Under "W" presidency the Harmony Science Academys started the inflitration into Texas

http://www.texasinsider.org/?p=33344&cpage=1#comment-29528

Is Islam Indoctrination in American Schools?

Posted By admin On September 1, 2010 @ 2:28 pm In The Scoop | 56 Comments

And is it funded by taxpayers?
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D.
Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – In recent months the American public has been made increasingly aware of a secretive foreign network of Islamic radicals that operates dozens of charter schools on U.S. soil.  These schools are linked to an extreme Islamist, Fethullah Gülen, who was charged with trying to create an Islamic state when he tried to overthrow his own Turkish government and enforce Sharia Law.   

Another Teacher speaks out.

Great American teachers of the USA!!!

michellerhee · 1 day ago

I worked in a Gulen charter school last year for six weeks. (I didn't know it at the time.) It was very poorly run. Unprepared students, curriculum not being taught completely (as is mandated by state law). They are also very nasty people and they play dirty.

In our rush to privatize public education, we are handing the keys over to radical Islam. Wake up, America!

http://frontpagemag.com/2010/11/23/debbie-schlussel-stands-up-for-persecuted-christian-teachers-%E2%80%93-in-america/?cid=117142

For more information about the Gulen Charter Schools in the USA go to:
http://www.gulencharterschoolsusa.blogspot.com/

Harmony Science Academy- Teacher speaks out........

http://blogs.chron.com/believeitornot/2010/11/church_state_school_texas_char_1.html
Hello I current work at Harmony School. I need the job due to the lack of jobs available right now. However, I am glad that the school is being researched. I have noticed a lot of questionable practice and I wonder how they are legal and definately think they should be investigated. Here are some practices that should be investigated.
-On their website they claim to have a 1/11 teacher/student ratio. At every school I have visited I have noticed about a 1/26 ratio. Nowhere near 1/11. However, some teachers are labeled "teachers" and teach only one period and do other duties the rest of the time. They may have a large teacher pool but they are not working with students this may be how they get around this.
-Also, most of the newly built schools are hastily built and occupied by students before all safety issues are met. Someone should send safety investigators to newly built schools.
-At my school, there are more American teachers than Turkish teachers. However, many of the Turkish teachers do not speak English well enough to teach effectively. I have witnessed many students drop out due to this reason. I think the school should be investigated as to if all the Turkish teachers can pass the test all the American teachers take in order to be able to teach.
-There is a lot of nepotism at the school. Many of the administrator's spouses teach at sister schools. Most of the administrators are Turkish men. There seems to be sexist and nationalist discrimination in many aspects of the school.
-Muslim religion seems to set a lot of school policy. This can be noticed in the dresscode policy and student food policies at some schools.
-They disregard teacher rights by denying them a duty-free lunch and planning period at many schools.
-They are reluctant to hire substitutes instead they pull out teacher's aides from Kindergarten and teachers who should be having a planning period during that time.
-Their websites makes false claims such as the 1/11 ratio and 0% drop-out rate but they have no free speech forum for others to correct their mistakes.
Please investigate these policies!

Letter to Harmony Science Academy Superintendent- Dr. Soner Tarim

Dear Mr. Tarim;
It is common knowledge that Harmony Science Academys and the staff have long solid connections to the Gulen Movement.  You have long denied these long term relationships with Hizmet and Cosmos Foundation, Raindrop Turkish House, the Gulen Institute and Turquoise Council which all have proven inter relations even going back to when you lived in Turkey.  Lets stop playing games. You are even on the Board of the Directors for the Gulen Institute in Houston.  Yet you try to lie about your connections to Gulen. 
We have a proposal for you,
We will gladly pay for you to be deposed in front of a magistrate judge so you can make a declaration about this.  Please come clean and show some of that Turkish Character about telling the TRUTH and TRANSPARENCY.  Then we can all move on to our normal lives, move forward in "Harmony" instead of the lies and deception.   How about it Soner?  Up for the Truth and that deposition?  We will pay for it.

P.S. We noticed that Cosmos Foundation is recruiting Legal Counsel from Turkey.  If you have to work so hard to deny your obvious and proven affliations with Fethullah Gulen then perhaps you are ashamed of this?

How about it Soner?  Lets depose you....then we can move on

Looked for your State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC) at TEA (first name Soner, last name: Tarim) but there is none listed.  Under which name did you earn your SBEC superintendent certificate?  Oh that is right, since you are part of Hizmet you are "special" and entitled to whatever you want in America.