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| Corrupt Texas politician Shiela Lee Jacson deserves the corrupt Gulen Movement.
A U.S. Congresswoman received a bundle of $16,000 in campaign
contributions from ten employees of a high-tech Texas charter school system
that also receives federal grants.
Rep. Sheila Lee Jackson, D-Texas, reported receiving $16,000 in campaign
contributions from Texas employees of Harmony Public Schools, which
has 15% if its employees in the United States on H1-B work visas, most from
Turkey. Yetkin Yildirim, superintendent of the charter school system, founded
the school in 2000 saying that math and science courses in the U.S. were less
rigorous than in Turkish schools. Rep. Jackson also reported $35,000 from
physicians in the Houston area.
Rep. Jackson has been a strong supporter of the visa programs,
including those for foreign medical students, physicians and high-tech workers.
Rep. Jackson sits on the House Judiciary Committee and its subcommittee on
Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
Jackson’s campaign
committee reported receiving $100,550 and spending $24,198 during the fourth
quarter of 2013. The committee has $269,783 cash on hand as of 12/31. The
campaign committee received $74,050 from individuals and $26,500 from PACs.
The ten contributions from those at Harmony Schools were all
received on 10/6, and included school administrative employees with job titles,
such as, superintendent and financial manager, director, personnel specialist,
director of purchasing, administrator, IT specialist, credit manager,
technology director, network and data analyst, and project director.
In December 2012, Rep. Jackson announced the Harmony School system
had won a $29 million “Race to the Top” grant.
Rep. Jackson received an earlier bundle of Harmony School
employee checks on November 14, 2011, when her campaign received $18,100.
Harmony School employees also gave $11,600 on other dates in 2011-2012.
To search detailed money-in-politics databases, visit Political MoneyLine.
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My child was a student at the Gulen Harmony Science Academy School in Texas, we served on the Parent Association and were involved with many fundraisers. Gulen Charter School- We were very dedicated to this group until we realized there was more to these schools than just "education". Our posts are from actual news sources and government data such as IRS tax returns, H1-B Visa information and other documentation.
Sunday, February 9, 2014
Gulen Harmony Public School Turkish employees bundle $16,000 in bribes to U.S. Congresswoman Sheila Lee Jackson
Thursday, December 12, 2013
FBI raid sister school of Harmony Science Academy in Louisana, Texas Gulen group Turquoise Council implicated
by Donna Garner
12.13.13
12.12.13 -- To view the FBI raid of the Gulen charter school in East Baton Rouge, please go to the following link on WBRZ.com. The Gulen charter schools are tied to Fethullah Gulen who is an Islamist imam. Kenilworth Science and Technology School is connected to the Pelican Foundation, Cosmos Foundation in Texas, Atlas Texas Construction and Trading (a Houston-based contractor), Harmony Charters in Texas, and to other Gulen/Turkish entities around the United States and Turkey: http://www.wbrz.com/videos/
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12.11.13 -- To read the full story about the FBI raid on the Gulen charter school, please read further:“FBI Raid Another Scandal for Gulen Charter School Company”
http://www.wbrz.com/news/fbi-
EXCERPTS FROM THIS ARTICLE:
BATON ROUGE- Wednesday evening's FBI raid on a charter school in East Baton Rouge is the latest item in a list of scandals involving the organization that holds the charter for the Kenilworth Science and Technology School.
Pelican Educational Foundation runs the school [and also Abramson] and has ties to a family from Turkey. The organization lost its school in New Orleans amid allegations of sexual misconduct among students that prompted a state investigation on campuses in the Crescent City and in Baton Rouge. It has also faced lawsuits and allegations from teachers about bad learning environments.
"It was an atmosphere where there was a double standard," one former teacher told WBRZ News 2 in an investigation into the school in EBR. Former teachers were not happy with how things were handled when they spoke with a station reporter two years ago.
No one was ever charged in the sex allegations a school spokesperson pointed out Wednesday as federal investigators moved through the campus collecting items, putting them in boxes and then loading them into a van.
…The school receives about $5,000,000 in local, state, and federal tax money. In 2012, the Pelican group was accused of improperly handling money by the Legislative Auditor. A report found about $8600 was improperly used to buy gifts for students who scored high on LEAP tests.
…About the same time as allegations and lawsuits began dealing with Pelican charter schools, a BESE member took an improper trip on behalf of another Turkish organization. Linda Johnson, who is no longer on BESE, was fined for breaking the law by the ethics board. She got an all expenses paid trip to Turkey.
Kenilworth Science and Technology School will be open Thursday.
Gulen Texas Turquoise Council Kemal Oksuz implicated in FBI raid on Gulen Charter School
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Kemal Oksuz (AKA fondly called the little troll) of the Gulen Movement, who is also a part of the Gulen Turquoise Council, and other Gulen front
groups is seen here at yet another Gulen Institute dialog dinner with an award for Ambassader Ahmed.
The Turquoise Council is implicated in the latest FBI Raid on the Kenliworth Science and Technology School in Louisana.
The Turquoise Council is one of the Gulen Front Groups that sponsors tribes to Turkey and Azerbaijan for politicians, academia and media in the USA. Kemal Oksuz was also one of the biggest campaign contributors to Lousiana politicians to squash the bill that would limit foreign operators of American tax supported charter schools.
MORE ON KEMAL OKSUZ HERE
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about the FBI RAID HERE:
Wednesday afternoon the story broke
in Baton Rouge media that the Kenilworth Science & Technology
School had been raided by the FBI.
The FBI indicated that the raid,
which evidently was conducted to gather material evidence in the form of
documents and computers, was not a matter of public safety. As a result, it
probably was not related to a report earlier this year
that a teacher at the school was accused of having inappropriate pictures of
children on his cell phone.
Had those charges stuck, that would
have been the second scandal of a sexual nature
involving a Gulenist school in Louisiana. Abramson Science &
Technology Charter School in New Orleans was shut down back in 2011 in the wake
of a scandal that started as an investigation into sexual activity involving
students at the school and evolved into a possible public bribery
investigation. Abramson operated under the same charter organization that
Kenilworth operates under: Pelican Educational Foundation.
During the course of the
investigation into Abramson, Pelican’s ties to the Gulenist movement were
revealed.
By now you’re wondering what the
Gulenist movement is, no doubt. The Gulenist movement is a secretive,
controversial Islamist movement founded by Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish Islamic
scholar with a controversial history and a great many followers and admirers in
both the Islamic and Western worlds. However, a close analysis of Gulen and his
movement reveals what may very well be a disturbing threat, rather than the
benign movement that many suppose. (Gulen fled Turkey for the US in 1998 and
settled in a massive, fortified compound in rural Pennsylvania.)
Gulen preaches peace on the one hand
– while on the other hand, credible reports indicate that the
Gulenists control the secret police and judicial bureaucracy in Turkey,
both of which have been key to brutally suppressing recent pro-democracy
protests there. But Gulen’s primary relevance to Americans comes from something
quite peculiar – namely, the fact that his movement is associated with roughly
1,200 schools in numerous countries around the globe, including
approximately 135 schools here in the USA. The American Gulenist schools
are mostly taxpayer-subsidized charter schools and there is much to be
concerned about, both in terms of their goals and operations. And Americans –
and in particular those Americans charged with credentialing these schools –
know scant little about with whom they’re dealing.
In reviewing the long-form
literature on Fethullah Gulen, without exception, every single book about Gulen
paints him in a positive, almost saint-like light. In order to fully grasp the
man and his motivations, one has to read his own work – the most troubling and
revealing of which is his 1998 book Prophet Muhammad as Commander.
While much of the book details the
life of Muhammad as a military commander and political leader, the opening
sections of the book reveal more about the author than they reveal about
Muhammad, about whom much is already known and documented. The first 37 pages
of Prophet Muhammad as Commander contain revealing, troubling passages
that provide a window on Fethullah Gulen’s views on Jihad and warfare.
In Prophet Muhammad as Commander,
Gulen explains Muslim hostility toward non-Muslims in a similar manner that
most non-Muslims will find at least very curious:
“For this reason, a Muslim’s enmity
towards unbelievers is, in fact, in the form of pitying them.”
Gulen ties this pity in with the
concept of “compassion.” Unbelievers who deny that Allah is the only god and
that Muhammad was his prophet are thought to be committing an “injustice.” Out
of “compassion” for those unbelievers and to prevent them from committing
further injustice, Muslims have enmity towards them and in some cases fight
them as enemies.
Jihad as a concept fits in with
justice. In fact, according to Gulen (page 20), Jihad is integral to justice:
“God does not approve wrongdoing and
disorder. He wills that human beings should live in peace and, accordingly,
that justice should prevail amongst them. It is therefore incumbent upon those
who believe in One God and worship Him faithfully to secure justice in the
world. Islam calls this responsibility jihad.”
Gulen then goes on to explain the
various forms of jihad, including warfare. Again, on page 20, Gulen states the
purpose of Jihad:
“…to establish the supremacy of His
religion and to make His Word prevail.”
In the same section, Gulen then
clearly articulates the aim of establishing a worldwide caliphate:
“Besides the holy struggle, the
principle of amr bi ‘l-ma’ruf wa nahy an al-munkar (enjoining the good
and forbidding the evil) seeks to convey the Message of Islam to all human
beings in the world and to establish a model Islamic community on a world-wide
basis.”
Most ominously, Gulen makes a call
in the book that reads an awful lot like a call for the Islamic world to
acquire nuclear weaponry:
“…believers should also equip
themselves with the most sophisticated weaponry. Force has an important place
in obtaining the desired result, so believers cannot be indifferent to it.
Rather they must be much more advanced in science and technology than
unbelievers so that they should not allow unbelievers to use ‘force’ for their
selfish benefit. According to Islam, ‘right is might’; so, in order to prevent
might from being right in the hands of unbelievers and oppressors, believers
must be mightier than others.”
“An Islamic state…should be able to
secure peace and justice in the world and no power should have the courage to
make corruption in any part of the earth. This will be possible when Muslims
equip themselves with a strong belief and righteousness in all their affairs,
and also with scientific knowledge and the most sophisticated technology.”
What does all this have to do with a
charter school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana? Well, Gulen’s most significant
foreign enterprise is his network of charter schools. As such, it is important
for people to be aware of the philosophy of the man who started the movement.
Gulenist
Charter School Scandals
The one overriding characteristic of
Gulen charter schools here in America seems to be their propensity for scandal
of all sorts. Here is a partial list of articles online dealing with these
scandals. In reviewing this list, ask yourself: should taxpayer money be going
to a foreign organization founded by an Islamist whose schools seem fraught
with scandal?
1.
Turkish-Gulen Charter Schools Under Federal Investigation
The FBI, the Department of Education
and the Department of Labor are reported to be investigating a systematic kick-back scheme
used by the charter school employees to funnel money—taxpayer sourced
money—to the Gulen movement.
2.
Discrimination lawsuit filed against Truebright Science Academy Charter School
in Pennsylvania
Truebright is a Turkish-Gulen
charter school. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported in its 6 April 2013
online edition that a former English teacher at the school had filed a civil
rights suit alleging the Turkish-run charter school discriminated against
employees based on gender and national origin. In addition to the suit, at
least nine Truebright staffers filed initial discrimination complaints with the
EEOC.
Truebright’s board, top
administrators and 1/3 of its teachers are Turkish.
Truebright is currently in a battle
to renew its charter. The School Reform Commission voted not
to renew Truebright’s charter on 18 different grounds, including
poor academic performance and a lack of certified teachers. And the school is the defendant in a
lawsuit long in coming.
3.
Louisiana Gulen Charter School Scandal
Abramson Science & Technology
Charter School in eastern New Orleans was shut down by the state of Louisiana.
Among the reasoning for the decision: (i) Turkish teachers who had trouble
communicating in English; (ii) Students attending courses with no teachers;
(iii) Possible improprieties involving standardized testing; (iv) Allegations
of attempted public bribery by Turkish organizations of Louisiana Department of
Education officials.
4.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania school districts rejects Gulen Charter School application
It is not necessarily noteworthy
that a Gulen charter application would be opposed, or even rejected, but the
reasons behind this rejection indicate
oddities at best, namely errors cited in the application, including
carelessness and numerous “cut and paste” segments from other charter school
applications which had no relevance to the application at hand. A total lack of
knowledge by the applicants of curriculum planning and a probably insufficient
amount of lesson plans.(This would appear to border on fraud.)
5.
Ohio Gulen Charter Schools Targeted by Department of Labor Investigation
The federal investigation which we
mentioned at the outset of this memorandum is not the only mention of Gulen
charter schools as targets of federal investigation. In 2011, one of the
sixteen Gulen charter schools in Ohio was reportedly targeted by the Department of Labor
for its use of H1-B visas. The investigation had been ongoing since 2008.
Auditors found some very unusual
line item entries on the school administrator’s books, including fees paid to
people living in Turkey and people never employed by the school. There was even
an item listed as $13,000 for “illegal immigration fees.”
Note also that the property owner of
the schools, from which the schools lease property, is located in Turkey. That
property owner gets $600,000 over 5 years of Ohio taxpayer money!
6.
Peoria, Illinois Gulen Charter School Operator Denies Association with Gulen
The operator of Quest Charter
Academy in Peoria, Illinois, Engin Blackstone (aka Elgin Karatas), told CBS’ 60
Minutes that his school had no association with Fethullah Gulen. However, that
may have been a lie. In this article, in the comments section, the spouse
of a former Quest employee claims that her husband accompanied
Blackstone/Karatas on a trip to visit personally with Gulen in Pennsylvania.
7.
Massachusetts Gulen School Gets High Marks Despite Bad Data
The Pioneer Charter School of
Science won praise from state education officials. But an examination of the school’s actual
performance told a different story:
- Students with disabilities experienced a high attrition
rate, possibly impacting test scores.
- The overall attrition rate among students was unusually
high.
- $84,215 of the school’s annual budget went to legal and
immigration-related fees. An interesting sidenote, while Pioneer was
hiring foreign teachers to fill its needs, a Boston charter school (not a
Turkish-Gulen school) had openings for 58 teachers and received 4,100
applicants!
- Only 56.7% of Pioneer’s teachers were licensed in their
teaching assignment. By comparison, in local public schools, 99.5% of
teachers were licensed and statewide in Massachusetts, the figure was
97.5%.
8.
Loudon County, Virginia School Board Turns Down Charter for Gulen School
This received a great deal of
publicity. Again, that the charter was denied is
not the story. The reasons why the charter was denied is the story:
- Significant gaps in academic and operational plans
submitted by the applicants:
- Loose curriculum
- Questionable financial assumptions
- Inadequate transportation plan
The Loudon school was going to be
modeled after a Gulen school in Anne Arundel County
that had a troubled past with questionable management practices, including
financial ones. In fact the school ended up in a lawsuit with the school board
over its charter.
We could easily supply a dozen more
examples of Gulen schools with sketchy – or worse – administrative, ethical and
academic issues. The movement has a very ugly record of performance as a
charter school operator, so much so that since the Gulen movement is the largest operator of charter schools in
America the repeated instances of scandal threaten the charter
school movement. That’s a shame – charters in New Orleans have shown great
potential for educational improvement thanks to their record in New Orleans,
but the teachers’ unions and others invested in the educational status quo are
seeking any angle to derail their progress.
And the never-ending string of
scandals surrounding Gulen schools is just such an angle.
The
Louisiana Connection And Wednesday’s FBI Raid
One recurring theme in all Gulenist
schools is their use of the H1-B visa program to import male teachers from
Turkey to teach at the schools. This activity has gotten the movement accused
of discrimination, and worse. In many cases American teachers have lost out on
jobs, only to find out that the Turkish aliens brought in to teach in their
place could barely speak English.
Further, allegations have been made
that what’s really going on with all the H1-B visa recipients brought in as
teachers in Gulen schools is an intricate fleecing of taxpayers, which works
like this: the going rate for charter school teachers in a given community
might be, for example, $40,000 – and the state funding for a charter school
would reflect salaries of that size. But in Turkey, a $40,000 salary would be
considered a king’s ransom – per capita income in that country was
just $15,200 last year. Therefore, the Gulen schools won’t encounter
much resistance when it tells teachers it offers to import from Turkey that
they’ll have to kick back a huge portion of their taxpayer-funded income to the
Gulen movement – and thus that’s exactly, it’s alleged, what happens.
This caught the attention of State
Representative Cameron Henry in the 2013 legislative session when he filed a bill that would have limited the number
of employees hired by Louisiana state-funded charter schools who were in the
country on H1-B visas. Henry’s legislation would have gotten right to the heart
of the matter – with a very reasonable restriction that no more than 3.5
percent of the school’s employees be H1-B visa recipients (or 1 in 29), and
that the people or groups submitting requests to start charter schools be
American citizens.
Unfortunately, Henry’s bill hit hard
where it hurt for some powerful, politically connected people in Louisiana. It
seems that the number one donor to the Louisiana Republican Party
in 2012 was none other than a Gulenist organization out of Texas. Kemal Oksuz,
president of the Turquoise Council, a Texas-based group closely related to the
Gulenist movement and the Harmony charter schools in that state, donated
$83,000 to the state GOP, making him its largest donor during 2012.
I am not making an accusation that
this donation bought the Gulen movement any special treatment by the state GOP,
or the Jindal administration. In fact, members of that administration told
supporters of the Henry bill that they were in favor of it.
But the charter school industry
itself, which has stood by silently as this foreign influence in US education
spawns scandal after scandal, didn’t share that position. In Louisiana the
industry went even further, defending Kenilworth and Pelican despite the prior
scandal involving Abramson. This took the form of hiring high-priced,
politically-connected lobbyists to label Henry’s bill “racist” and
“xenophobic.”
And the bill was killed in the House
Education Committee after a host of parents with children in charter schools
testified against it. This followed an interesting bit of romance the Gulen
movement attempted within the state legislature the Hayride was able
to expose.
It’s worth mentioning that the Executive Director of the Louisiana Charter Schools
Association is Caroline Roemer Shirley, the daughter of the former
governor. Shirley’s brother is Chas Roemer – the president of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary
Education. Earlier this year, BESE granted a five-year extension of
Kenilworth’s charter – a decision which, in light of the FBI’s visit to the
school on Wednesday, doesn’t look like the wisest BESE could have made.
The question is, does the charter
school industry know about all of these disturbing details surrounding the
Gulenist movement and its charter schools and choose to look the other way, or
are they simply ignorant as to the facts?
With the FBI raid a new chapter in
this saga has opened in Louisiana – and the charter school industry and
lobbyists won’t be able to run interference for the Islamists any more. For
many of us who are in favor of school choice and charter schools, the
Kenilworth-Gulen debacle is a disaster on two levels: first, granting charters
and dispensing taxpayer dollars to an Islamist movement with such a shady
history is outrageous and dangerous in its own right. And second, there will be
real damage from this scandal – damage those who are comfortable trapping
disadvantaged children in lousy public schools will use to their advantage.
- See more
at:
http://thehayride.com/2013/12/holton-maybe-now-theyll-pay-attention-to-the-gulen-schools/#sthash.J1olEoNy.dpuf
Monday, November 18, 2013
Proposed Gulen Charter School (Harmony Science) for Washington DC, has a prospective board member STEP DOWN
As reported in our article following this one about Salim Sharif and the scandal at a school he had to resign from. Soner Tarim of Harmony Texas has replaced Salim with another board member.
The DC School district is to vote this week on whether to approve the school. Based on Soner Tarim's poor business decisions and lack of oversight on this Washington DC school. There are too many questions that are left unanswered at this point, especially about where Texas money fits into this latest Gulen Movement scam.
In the usual predictable nature, the Gulenists have responded to the article in the typical "happy parents" from Texas that just happened to stroll by a Washington DC Article. The words and comments are the same now as they have been for 4 years.
Gulenists, you work way too hard to cover up the obvious.
Harmony Charter vote set for next week; appplicant group replaces one
member
The D.C. Public Charter School Board will vote next week on whether to allow Harmony Public Schools to open its doors in the District next fall, amid questions about its leadership and business practices.
Harmony, the largest charter-school operator in Texas, has a solid academic record but faces lingering questions about its contracting and immigration policies, as well as allegations of connections to a controversial Muslim cleric.
There has also been a recent change in the group that would lead the effort to establish the D.C. school. A member of the group who has been involved in a controversy in Prince George’s County school system resigned in late October, and has been replaced, Harmony’s superintendent told the Washington Post in an interview.
In its application, the charter network listed three members of the D.C. founding group: Harmony Superintendent Soner Tarim, Communications Director Julie Norton and local educator Sharif Salim.
Salim, a former administrator in D.C. Public Schools, was co-founder and principal of Village Learning Center, a D.C. public charter school that was closed in 2004 for fiscal mismanagement and other problems.
Salim went on to work for Prince George’s County Public Schools, according to the resume submitted as part of Harmony’s charter application.
According to county court records, Salim was demoted in 2011 from his position as a middle-school principal after an employee at his school — who was also his son — admitted to hitting a disabled student. Salim has sued the school system, alleging that he was the victim of discrimination because he was the only practicing Muslim among the county’s public school principals.
Neither Salim nor his lawyer responded to requests for comment.
Asked about Salim’s work history, Tarim said Salim resigned from the founding group in late October “for personal reasons.” Tarim said that he met Salim at a conference last year and was impressed with his reputation in the community, but was unaware of the details of Salim’s past employment.
Tarim said he had identified a new member of the founding group, a lawyer for the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, an advocacy group. The lawyer, Renita Thukral, could not be immediately reached for comment.
The DC School district is to vote this week on whether to approve the school. Based on Soner Tarim's poor business decisions and lack of oversight on this Washington DC school. There are too many questions that are left unanswered at this point, especially about where Texas money fits into this latest Gulen Movement scam.
In the usual predictable nature, the Gulenists have responded to the article in the typical "happy parents" from Texas that just happened to stroll by a Washington DC Article. The words and comments are the same now as they have been for 4 years.
Gulenists, you work way too hard to cover up the obvious.
Harmony Charter vote set for next week; appplicant group replaces one
member
By Emma Brown,
The D.C. Public Charter School Board will vote next week on whether to allow Harmony Public Schools to open its doors in the District next fall, amid questions about its leadership and business practices.
Harmony, the largest charter-school operator in Texas, has a solid academic record but faces lingering questions about its contracting and immigration policies, as well as allegations of connections to a controversial Muslim cleric.
There has also been a recent change in the group that would lead the effort to establish the D.C. school. A member of the group who has been involved in a controversy in Prince George’s County school system resigned in late October, and has been replaced, Harmony’s superintendent told the Washington Post in an interview.
In its application, the charter network listed three members of the D.C. founding group: Harmony Superintendent Soner Tarim, Communications Director Julie Norton and local educator Sharif Salim.
Salim, a former administrator in D.C. Public Schools, was co-founder and principal of Village Learning Center, a D.C. public charter school that was closed in 2004 for fiscal mismanagement and other problems.
Salim went on to work for Prince George’s County Public Schools, according to the resume submitted as part of Harmony’s charter application.
According to county court records, Salim was demoted in 2011 from his position as a middle-school principal after an employee at his school — who was also his son — admitted to hitting a disabled student. Salim has sued the school system, alleging that he was the victim of discrimination because he was the only practicing Muslim among the county’s public school principals.
Neither Salim nor his lawyer responded to requests for comment.
Asked about Salim’s work history, Tarim said Salim resigned from the founding group in late October “for personal reasons.” Tarim said that he met Salim at a conference last year and was impressed with his reputation in the community, but was unaware of the details of Salim’s past employment.
Tarim said he had identified a new member of the founding group, a lawyer for the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, an advocacy group. The lawyer, Renita Thukral, could not be immediately reached for comment.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Gulen Charter School in Texas submits application for a charter school in Washington DC - Dr. Soner Tarim
Salim has taught Ancient History, in
the D.C. Public School System, and served as Acting Principal of Theodore
Roosevelt High School from 1987 through 1992. He also founded the Muslim
Community School in 1980, which is located in Potomac, Maryland. The school
offers Pre-K through grade twelve, and at its peak, student enrollment reached
400.
MORE ON SHARIF SALIM M. ed (African American Muslim Convert) at the end of this post.
Soner Tarim, Superintendant of Gulen “inspired” Harmony
Charter Schools in Texas, has boldly tried to file an application for a charter
school in Washington, DC. Here is the
application:
The proposed Gulen operated charter school in DC will be
called Harmony School of Excellence. Are
we to assume that Texas money will cross state lines into Washington DC? Gulenist supporter Sharif Salim M.Ed on
page 393 appears as a “Board member of this proposed school” (see below for more on Salim)
Page 11, lists “Bridgespan” as giving the “seed money” to open this school. Which you can bet is another newly created Turkish investment group much like the TruGlobe that purchased the defaulted property in Atlanta where Fulton Science Academy (lost their charter mandate and now is a private school) is located. Not a bad deal, The school and their Grace Institute, defaulted on a $19 million loan to Wells Fargo, then TruGlobe purchased the property back on the courthouse steps auction for a mere $3 million. Pocketing the $16 million
Perhaps the DC Unified school district should read up on Dr. Soner Tarim (Marine Biologist) and learn of his admitted ties to Gulen and how Gulen inspires him. Tarim was outed in the New York Times for anti-American activities of preferential treatment and favoritism of Turkish businesses and contracts. Their preferential hiring of h1-b Visa Teachers (Male from Turkic countries) over Americans has cost jobs and further economic woes for Texas Taxpayers.
The Gulen Movement is embedded with American politics, and in Washington DC their mother lobbying group is Rumi Forum and Faruk Taban with the Turkic American Council which sponsors dinners and business forums with Congress members with Turkic countries.
*Sharif Salim M.ed
Sharif is a black muslim convert who grew up on the mean
streets of Washington DC and has mentored many troubled black youth especially
in the world of boxing.
More about Sarif Salim here:
More on
Sharif Salim or Saarif Salim, it appears while he was principal at yet another
school in DC, one of the teachers was charged with assault on a student. Salim shortly left the school on a “leave” it
is unclear if this is the same “SALIM” or if he left voluntarily.
The Gulenists have once again latched on to a minority and
no doubt sniffed out the federal and state money available for developing
schools in impoverished areas with high African American students.
Interview
with Sharif Salim as the manager of Boxer Seth Mitchell:
“Salim, a D.C. resident who was a school principal and now opens
charter schools, touts boxing as an avenue to prosperity, or at the least a
platform to build character and heart. He sees enough technique and ample
character and heart in Mitchell, enough of all of that to gain revenge on Banks.”
Monday, August 12, 2013
Harmony Science Academy gets "Needs Improvement" status
Lubbock County school districts
met standard according to 2013 ratings
Harmony Science Academy rated 'needs improvement'
Posted: August 8, 2013
- 3:00pm | Updated: August 9, 2013 - 12:35am
“Other Lubbock
County schools that scored below target are Idalou Elementary School, Slaton
Junior High School and Harmony Science Academy — a
charter school.”
This puts a lie
to the Gulen Movement’s claim that their schools are all high performing. The only thing that is high performing is the
Gulen’s propaganda, Public Relations and false advertising scams.
READ THE ENTIRE
ARTICLE HERE:
Gulen Charter Schools Self Dealings with only Turkish Operated Businesses need to bid
Over $25 million in American Tax money was awarded to "Turkish owned" businesses that service the Harmony Science Academies.
And still no justice for JR Johnson Construction who with their sub contractors worked on the Harmony School of Political Science and Communication to only be stiffed by the Gulen Movement.
Why is the Gulen Movement not wanting to pay American businesses for services? Simple- the money they pay to the Turkish operated businesses gets laundered back to the movement.
And still no justice for JR Johnson Construction who with their sub contractors worked on the Harmony School of Political Science and Communication to only be stiffed by the Gulen Movement.
Why is the Gulen Movement not wanting to pay American businesses for services? Simple- the money they pay to the Turkish operated businesses gets laundered back to the movement.
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| Besides illegally hiring Gulen male teachers overseas via fraudulent h1-b Visas the Gulencs are destroying the American Economy and jobs with refusal to support American operated businesses and employees. |
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