More evidence that the Gulen Movement Runs the Biggest Charter School Network (122 schools) in USA

[Hannah Bell]

http://perimeterprimate.blogspot.com/2010/11/affiliation-between-gulen-movement-and.html
http://gulencharterschools.weebly.com/are-the-schools-connected-to-gulen.html

"New mainstream sources confirm the connection between members of the Gulen Movement and a large network of U.S. charter schools (122+). The association is undeniable. At long last, the American public is gaining knowledge about the Gulen Movement's activities in the U.S. and an honest public conversation about this unusual situation can commence."

The first link above notes a speech by Dr. Helen Rose Ebaugh, professor at the University of Houston, Department of Sociology, on the financing of the Gulen Movement’s institutions at “Mapping the Gulen Movement,” a conference sponsored by Dialoog Academie, a Gulenist organization in Amsterdam.

She says:

@ 06:58 - Now also, I interviewed the top CEO’s of some of the Gulen-related institutions. I interviewed Mr. Kabaca at the bank of Bank Asya. I interviewed Mr. Dumanli at Zaman. I interviewed officials at Samanyolu TV, at Kimse Yok Mu , at schools, at Fatih University, at a lot of the media institutions in Turkey. And I wanted to know the history of the establishment of these institutions. Who put up the initial money? Where did it come from? Where did the capital come from? And then how was it sustained?

And I began to notice some patterns, some very strong patterns…

@ 08:02 - The businessmen and other people in the movement – but a lot of the real capital comes from these entrepreneurs – would put up the initial money to buy the land, to build the buildings, and operating capital for the first usually two or three years. And then gradually these institutions, and fast in my estimation, became self-supporting. The schools for example, charge tuition. They’re private schools and so they charge somewhere between seven and nine thousand a year...

At about 11:50 she says, "Do you know in Texas we now have 25 Gulen schools? They’re called charter schools…totally financed by the state, and it’s causing problems..."

And gets told to stop talking about that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJmldzfD884

[mia]

1. Hadn't heard of Gulen - thanks for the link. Clinton's words on this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPiPOL9-EQs&feature=related

[Hannah Bell]

2. bill got a nice "donation" for that i'd bet. imo, this supposed religious leader is also

a US asset, & his schools are a money-laundering/money-stealing operation.

which is why he got kicked out of turkey & lives in the us, & is allowed to (at arms length) run 122 schools under the radar.

[mia]

3. This subject is fascinating. As a Montessori teacher I'm aware of the

fact that educational reformers have been exiled before.

In Italy "Montessori was exiled by Mussolini mostly because she refused to compromise her principles and make the children into soldiers. She moved to Spain and lived there until 1936 when the Spanish Civil War broke out. She then moved to the Netherlands until 1939."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Montessori

I look forward to reading more of your insights about this.

[Hannah Bell]

6. he's not an educational reformer. He's the turkish equivalent of a southern preacher.

His pro-business stance has led some outsiders to dub his theology an Islamic version of Calvinism.<10> Oxford Analytica says:

"Gülen put Nursi's ideas into practice when he was transferred to a mosque in Izmir in 1966. Izmir is a city where political Islam never took root. However, the business and professional middle class came to resent the constraints of a state bureaucracy under whose wings it had grown, and supported market-friendly policies, while preserving at least some elements of a conservative lifestyle. Such businessmen were largely pro-Western, because it was Western (mainly U.S.) influence, which had persuaded the government to allow free elections for the first time in 1950 and U.S. aid, which had primed the pump of economic growth." <11>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fethullah_G%C3%BClen


and imo, a paid agent of somebody in the us.

[Starry Messenger]

4. k&r

[mmonk]

5. Yes. Here they are charters.

Other countries, they are private. The Gulen movement is a world leader in that regard.