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Amerika'da Gülen okullarından bazıları ve adresleri:

 

Arizona Schools Operated by Daisy Education Corporation

• Sonorant Science Academy-Tucson Middle-High School 2325 W Sunset Rd., Tucson

• Sonorant Science Academy-Tucson Elementary School 2325 W Sunset Rd., Tucson

• Sonorant Science Academy-Broadway Kindergarten – Grade 8, 6880 E Broadway Blvd., Tucson

• Sonoran Science Academy-Phoenix Kindergarten – Grade 10 4837 E McDowell Rd., Phoenix

• Daisy Early Learning Academy, 2325 W Sunset Rd., Tucson, AZ

• Davis Monthan Air Force Base                                                                                   

Arkansas

• Lisa Academy 21 Corporate Hill Dr., Little Rock

• Lisa Academy-North 5410 Landers Rd, Sherwood

California

• Magnolia Science Academy 1, 18238 Sherman Way, Reseda

• Magnolia Science Academy 2, 18425 Kittridge St., Reseda

• Magnolia Science Academy 3, 1444 W Rosecrans Ave., Gardena

• Magnolia Science Academy 4, 1010 Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice, CA

• Magnolia Science Academy 5, 1530 N Wilton Place, Hollywood

• Magnolia Science Academy 6, San Carlos

• Momentum Middle School, 6365 Lake Atlin, San Diego

• Bay Area Technology School (Bay Tech) 4521 Webster St., Oakland

• Pacific Technology School-San Juan

• Pacific Technology School-Santa Ana

Colorado

• Lotus School for Excellence, Aurora

Florida

• Orlando Science Middle School, 2427 Lynx Lane, Orlando

• River City Science Academy, 3266 Southside Blvd., Jacksonville

• Sweet water Branch Academy 1000 NE 16th Ave, Building C, Gainesville

• Stars Middle School 1234 Blountstown Highway, Tallahassee

Georgia

• Fulton Science Academy Middle School, 1675 Hembree Road, Alpharetta

• Technology Enriched Accelerated Charter High School, 4100 Old Milton Pkwy, Alpharetta

Illinois

• Science Academy of Chicago, Grade 1-Grade 8, 8350 N. Greenwood Ave, Niles

• Chicago Math and Science Academy Secondary School, 1705 West Lunt Ave, Chicago

Indiana Operated by Concept Schools, Inc.

• Indiana Math and Science Academy, Grade 6-Grade 12, 4575 W 38th Street, Indianapolis

Louisiana

• Abramson Science and Technology 5552 Read Blvd., New Orleans

Maryland

• Chesapeake Science Point Secondary School 1321 Mercedes Drive, Hanover Massachusetts

• Pioneer Charter School of Science Grade 7- Grade 10, 51-59 Summer Street, Everett

Missouri

• Broadside-Frontier Math and Science School Secondary School, 5605 Troost, Kansas City

• Broadside Charter and Day School Elementary School, 5220 Troost Ave., Kansas City

Nevada

• Coral Academy of Science-Las Vegas, 8185 Tamarus St., Las Vegas

• Coral Academy of Science-Reno Secondary School, 1350 East Ninth Street, Reno

• Coral Academy of Science- Reno Elementary School, 1701 Valley Road, Reno

New Jersey

• Bergen Arts and Science Charter School, K-8, 200 MacArthur Ave, Garfield

• Paterson Charter School for Science and Technology, 276 Wabash Ave., Paterson

• Tuition Schools

• Pioneer Academy of Science, K-12, 366 Clifton Avenue, Clifton

Ohio Operated by Concept Schools, Inc.

• Horizon Science Academy-Cincinnati Middle School-High School, 1055 Laidlaw Avenue, Cincinnati

• Horizon Science Academy-Cleveland High School, 6000 South Marginal Rd., Cleveland

• Horizon Science Academy-Cleveland Middle School, 6100 South Marginal Rd. Cleveland

• Horizon Science Academy-Cleveland Elementary School, 6150 South Marginal Rd. Cleveland

• Horizon Science Academy-Columbus High School 1070 Morse Rd. Columbus

• Horizon Science Academy-Columbus Middle School 1341 Bethele Road, Columbus

• Horizon Science Academy-Columbus Elementary School, 2835 Morse Rd., Columbus

• Horizon Science Academy-Dayton, 545 Odlin Ave., Dayton

• Horizon Science Academy – Denison, K-1, Grades 4 – 8, 1700 Denison Avenue, Cleveland

• Horizon Science Academy – Springfield, Grades 5- 8 630 South Reynolds Road, Toledo, OH 43615-6314

• Horizon Science Academy – Toledo, Toledo High School, 425 Jefferson Avenue, Toledo

• Noble Academy-Columbus, K-Grade 8, 1329 Bethel Road, Columbus

• Noble Academy-Cleveland 1200 E. 200th Street, Euclid

Oklahoma Schools operated under the Cosmos Foundation, TX.

• Dove Science Academy-OKC Secondary School, 919 NW 23rd St., Oklahoma City

• Dove Science Academy-OKC Elementary School, 4901 N Lincoln Blvd., Oklahoma City

• Dove Science Academy-Tulsa, 280 S Memorial Dr, Tulsa

Tuition school affiliated with Raindrop Turkish House

• Bluebonnet Learning Center of Tulsa Nursery, Pre-School and Pre-Kinder Education, 280 S Memorial Dr., Tulsa

Pennsylvania

• Truebright Science Academy Secondary School, 926 West Sedgley Avenue, Philadelphia

• Snowdrop Science Academy Pre-School – Grade 7, 233 Seaman Lane, Monroeville

Texas Operated by The Cosmos Foundation

• Harmony Science Academy-Austin Secondary School, 930 East Rundberg Lane, Austin

• Harmony School of Science-Austin Kindergarten- Grade 8, 11800 Stonehollow Drive, Suite 100, Austin

• Harmony Science Academy-North Austin, Grades 6- 10, 1421 Wells Branch Parkway, W Suite 200, Pflugerville

• Harmony Science Academy-Beaumont, Kindergarten- Grade 10, 4055 Calder Ave, Beaumont

• Harmony Science Academy-Brownsville

• Harmony Science Academy-Bryan/ College Station

• Harmony Science Academy-Dallas Elementary School, 11995 Forestgate Dr., Dallas

• Harmony Science Academy- El Paso, 9405 Betel Dr., El Paso

• Harmony Science Academy-Fort Worth

• Harmony Science Academy-Grand Prairie, 1102 NW 7th St, Grand Prairie

• Harmony Science Academy-Houston Secondary School, 5435 S. Braeswood, Houston

• Harmony School of Excellence-Houston, Elementary and Secondary School, 7340 North Gessner Rd, Houston

• Harmony School of Innovation-Houston, 9421 West Sam Houston Parkway, South Houston

• Harmony School of Science-Houston, 13415 W Belford Ave., Sugar Land

• Harmony Science Academy-Northwest, Kindergarten- Grade 10, 16200 Tomball Parkway, Houston

• Harmony Science Academy-Laredo, 4401 San Francisco Avenue, Laredo

• Harmony Science Academy-Lubbock, 1516 53rd Street, Lubbock

• Harmony Science Academy-San Antonio, 8505 Lakeside Parkway, San Antonio

• Harmony Science Academy-Waco, 1900 N. Valley Mills Dr., Waco

• Texas Gulf Institute Career Center Adult Education, 9431 W Sam Houston Pkwy., S #203, Houston

Operated by Riverwalk Education Foundation, Inc

• School of Science and Technology Discovery, K-12, 5707 Bandera Road, Leon Valley

• School of Science and Technology-San Antonio Secondary School, 1450 NE Loop 410, San Antonio

• School of Science and Technology-Corpus Christi

Tuition schools affiliated with Raindrop Turkish House

• Bluebonnet Learning Center of Houston Nursery, Pre-School and Pre-Kinder

• Education, 9303 W Sam Houston Parkway South, Suite 200, Houston

• Bluebonnet Learning Center of Dallas Nursery, Pre-School and Pre-Kinder Education, 1416 E Collins Blvd., Richardson

• Bluebonnet Learning Center of El Paso Nursery, Pre-School and Pre-Kinder Education 9405 Betel Dr., El Paso

Utah

• Beehive Science and Technology Academy, Secondary School, 1011 Murray Holiday Rd., Salt Lake City

Wisconsin

• Wisconsin Career Academy Middle-High School, 4801 S 2nd Street, Milwaukee

 

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Subject: [AmerikadakiAyYildiz] POLITIK - ABD okullarina Gulen yasasi

 

 

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ABD okullarina Gulen yasasi

ABD'nin Tennessee eyaleti senatosu devletten fon alan 'charter' diye nitelendirilen okullara yabanci ogretmen kisitlamasi getirdi

Buna gore yabanci ogretmenler toplam kadronun sadece yuzde 3.5'ini olusturabilecek. Yasanin ABD'deki Fettullah Gulen okullarini hedefledigi dusunuluyor. Zira yasayi oneren sivil toplum kurulusunun uyesi Phyllis Schlafly bir makale yazarak 'gizli isler ceviren ve guclu Islamci Turk okullarinin ABD'de artan etkisine' dikkat cekmisti. Gulen okullarinin kadrosunun yaklasik yuzde 10'unu Turkiye'den giden ogretmenler olusturuyor. Bu ogretmenler daha once de vize sorunlari nedeniyle ulusal basinda gundeme gelmisti.

http://tnreport.com/blog/2012/04/16/legislature-passes-limits-on-foreigners-in-tn-charter-schools/

 

Legislature Passes Limits on Foreign Staffers at TN Charter Schools

by Mark Todd Engler on April 16, 2012

The Tennessee Legislature has approved a bill limiting the number of non-U.S. citizens any Volunteer State charter school can hire while still maintaining eligibility for public funding.

Senate Bill 3345, which passed in the Tennessee Senate last week and in the House of Representatives on Monday night, would also require charter schools to disclose all their funding sources in addition to capping the number of foreign citizens on staff at 3.5 percent of the total number of the school's employees.

House proponents of the measure portrayed it as a common-sense effort to increase charter-school transparency and encourage the hiring of American citizens as teachers — preferably Tennesseans.

"It simply puts more accountability in the charter school process," said House Speaker Pro Tem Judd Matheny, R-Tullahoma, the bill's sponsor. The measure contains an exemption for foreign-language teachers who, if by hiring them, would cause a charter school to break the cap, Matheny added.

The measure passed April 12 in the Senate on an 18-13-1 vote. It cleared the House on a 63-29-1 vote. In both chambers votes were cast mostly along party lines, with Republicans for it and Democrats against.

Democratic Caucus Chairman Mike Turner of Old Hickory suggested during floor debate Monday that the group chiefly responsible for pushing the bill, the Tennessee Eagle Forum, seems concerned more with limiting the influence of Islam than hiring homegrown teachers.

Turner noted that just last week Phyllis Schlafly, founder of the national Eagle Forum, penned an opinion column that sought to raise awareness about the growing influence in America of a "secretive and powerful" Turkish-based Islamic religious sect.

"Charter schools are able to hire and fire teachers, administrators and staff and avoid control by education department bureaucrats and the teachers unions," wrote Schlafly. "No doubt there are some good charter schools, but loose controls have allowed a very different kind of school to emerge."

Schlafly, a nationally syndicated conservative political commentator, cited a number of articles in major U.S. newspapers over the past year that have examined the activities of a movement led by a religious leader from Turkey named Fethullah Gülen.

According to a June 2011 New York Times article that Schlafly referenced in her column, Fethullah Gülen is "a charismatic Turkish preacher of a moderate brand of Islam whose devotees have built a worldwide religious, social and nationalistic movement in his name. Gulen followers have been involved in starting similar schools around the country — there are about 120 in all, mostly in urban centers in 25 states, one of the largest collections of charter schools in America."

The Times story continued:

The growth of these "Turkish schools," as they are often called, has come with a measure of backlash, not all of it untainted by xenophobia. Nationwide, the primary focus of complaints has been on hundreds of teachers and administrators imported from Turkey: in Ohio and Illinois, the federal Department of Labor is investigating union accusations that the schools have abused a special visa program in bringing in their expatriate employees.

But an examination by The New York Times of the Harmony Schools in Texas casts light on a different area: the way they spend public money. And it raises questions about whether, ultimately, the schools are using taxpayer dollars to benefit the Gulen movement — by giving business to Gulen followers, or through financial arrangements with local foundations that promote Gulen teachings and Turkish culture.

Schlafly wrote that the movement "has nurtured a close-knit network of businesses and organizations run by Turkish immigrants."

"Most American taxpayers would be mighty surprised at what their money is financing," Schlafly concluded.

Matheny acknowledged that indeed the foreigners-in-charter-schools measure came to him through the Tennessee Eagle Forum. He denied, though, that it is targeted at any one group or individual.

"This bill treats everybody equally who would be part of the charter school process, regardless of where they are from, what their religion is — it treats everybody equally," Matheny said Monday.

Turner, who voted against the bill, suggested Matheny research the Eagle Forum's views on the matter. "I think they have led you astray on what they asked you to carry on this bill," Turner said.

A March 27 article in The Tennessean noted that top Democrats in both chambers of the Tennessee Legislature filed bills earlier this session similar to the GOP-backed proposal. Senate Bill 2654 and House Bill 2831, sponsored by Senate Democratic Caucus Chairman Lowe Finney and House Minority Leader Craig Fitzhugh, sought to prohibit foreign nationals who are not lawful permanent residents of the United States from running or teaching in state-funded charter schools. Those bills stalled in the committee system.

Sen. Finney ultimately voted against SB3345, which was sponsored in the Senate by Murfreesboro Republican Bill Ketron. Rep. Fitzhugh didn't cast a vote on the measure during the House vote Monday night, according to the Tennessee Legislature's website, although he is listed as having voted against the measure when it passed out of the House Education Committee April 3.

Matt Throckmorton, executive director of the Tennessee Charter Schools Association, said he doesn't see a particular need for the bill, that it creates unnecessary hoops for charter schools to jump through.

Often schools with higher percentages of foreign-born teachers are among the highest performing institutions academically, he said.

"The evidence suggests they're really making positive contributions," Throckmorton said.

 

http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2012/apr12/12-04-11.html

 

by Phyllis Schlafly

April 11, 2012

Phyllis Schlafly The charter school movement was presented to the American people as a way to have more parental control of public school education. Charter schools are public schools financed by local taxpayers plus federal grants. Charter schools are able to hire and fire teachers, administrators and staff and avoid control by education department bureaucrats and the teachers unions. No doubt there are some good charter schools, but loose controls have allowed a very different kind of school to emerge. Charter schools have opened up a path for foreigners to run schools at the expense of the U.S. taxpayers, without much news coverage. One of the few breakthroughs in the media was a front-page article in the New York Times (6-7-11), carried over to two full inside pages, about the many charter schools run by a secretive and powerful sect from Turkey called the Gülen Movement. Google Ads are provided by Google and are not selected or endorsed by Eagle Forum Headed by a Turkish preacher named Fethullah Gülen who had already founded a network of schools in 100 other countries, this movement opened its first U.S. charter school in 1999. Gülen's schools spread rapidly after he figured out how to work our system and get the U.S. taxpayers to import and finance his recruitment of followers for his worldwide religious and social movement. The Gülen Movement now operates the largest charter school network in the United States. It has at least 135 schools teaching more than 45,000 students in at least 26 states, financed by millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars a year. The principals and school board members are usually Turkish men. Hundreds of Turkish teachers (referred to as "international teachers") and administrators have been admitted to the United States, often using H-1B visas, after claiming that qualified Americans cannot be found. In addition, the Gülen Movement has nurtured a close-knit network of businesses and organizations run by Turkish immigrants. These include the big contractors who built or renovated the schools, plus a long list of vendors selling school lunches, uniforms, after-school programs, web design, teacher training, and special education materials. Several other news sources have started to publish information about the Gülen charter schools. In Ohio, an NBC-TV station reported that Ohio taxpayers' money was used to recruit teachers for charter schools from overseas, especially from Turkey. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Turkish scientists, engineers and businessmen have opened several charter schools in Pennsylvania, plus 120 charter schools in 25 states, funded with millions of taxpayer dollars. Just one charter school, called the Truebright Science Academy, received $3 million from the Philadelphia School District. According to a guest post in the Washington Post (3-27-12), Gülen's U.S. schools are openly discussed in the Turkish press. The goal for Gülen's schools is to "teach tens of thousands of people the Turkish language, introduce them to our culture and win them over," and so the schools regularly take students to Turkey for "cultural immersion." The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported that charter schools in New Orleans and Baton Rouge are linked to businesses run by people from Turkey. In Texas, 36 Turkish charter schools, called the Harmony Network, have received over $100 million in government funds. These schools now have 290 (mostly Turkish) employees on H-1B visas, about 16 percent of its workforce. In Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, a substitute teacher named Amanda Getz reported about what goes on inside a charter school called TiZA. TiZA is a K-through-8th-grade charter school funded by U.S. taxpayers and sponsored by Islamic Relief. The teacher says there is no clear division between the subjects studied during school and the study of the Qu'ran after school. She says that homework assignments for after-school religious instruction are written on the board right alongside assignments for math and social studies. Ms. Getz says she was informed that, on Fridays, the Muslim holy day, there would be a school assembly in the gym after lunch. She was instructed to take her students before the assembly to the bathroom, four at a time, for "ritual washing," and afterwards "teachers led the kids into the gym, where a man dressed in white with a white cap" led the students in Muslim prayers. This school has only 300 students, but it has a waiting list of 1,500. TiZA shares its building with a mosque and also with the headquarters of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, whose mission is "establishing Islam in Minnesota." Ms. Getz said almost all TiZA students stay after school for "Islamic Studies" instruction provided by the Muslim American Society. The religious instruction is technically not part of the school day, but the school buses don't leave until after Islamic Studies are over. Most American taxpayers would be mighty surprised at what their money is financing.