Texas anons - heads-up - School funding will be discussed in Austin next session and ppl need to know about Gulen & Harmony Charter schools. Harmony Public Schools, which, with 54 campuses, 3,800 staff, 33,500 students, take in more than 258 million dollars in annual revenue from state and local funding, is Texas’s largest charter network. This is our tax dollars at work.
Am providing more information: Yale student, Rahul Nagvekar reporter for The Politic, published an expose' on the Gulen movement as it relates to the Harmony Schools in Texas – home to the largest nest of affiliated US tax funded charter schools.
http://www.charterschoolwatchdog.com/the-honey-pot.html
Some examples include:
" Allegations of grievous wrongdoings by the schools. “Misuse of taxpayer funds totaling at least 243 million dollars,” read emails the firm sent various state attorneys general this January. “More than 6,504 H-1B visas to import unqualified Turkish teachers. Widespread manipulation of state-mandated testing, grades, and attendance figures.” (Harmony and its counterparts in other states have denied all of these claims.)
Documentary "Killing ED":
According to two separate interviews in Killing Ed, North American University plays a key role in maintaining Harmony’s public image. “They force the kids to apply to college, and then the North American [University] accepts them all,” says “Linda,” a former teacher at Harmony School of Innovation-Houston who appears anonymously in the film. “So they create their own 100 percent acceptance rate.”
Major corruption was identified in an investigation of a Harmony school in New Orleans and it was closed. Dan Patrick (TX) is a major supporter of Charter Schools and has recently claimed he will look at the Louisiana Investigation. https://www.statesman.com/news/20131217/sen-patrick-calls-for-review-of-ties-between-harmony-louisiana-school-under-investigation
Mr. Patrick - we understand your desire for an excellent educational system for Texas children, however if you honestly review the situation IMHO you may come to realize there has been major fraud.
Killing ED is ~90 minute long documentary - more about it at https://killinged.com/
Many politicians (including State reps) have Gulen-paid "educational trips to Turkey
2006 - 2013 list here: https://www.dailysabah.com/diplomacy/2016/08/19/hundreds-of-us-politicians-made-trips-to-turkey-financed-by-gulenist-terror-cult
Anons in other states, a list of schools by state here:
https://charterschoolscandals.blogspot.com/p/list-of-us-gulen-schools.html