Gulen Charter Schools

  • Gulen charter schools
  • How the schools serve the Gulen Movement
  • Why it's wrong
  • SITE INDEX
  • How school chains evolve
  • Harmony Science Academy: Denials and Evidence
  • Sonoran Science Academy - Denials and Evidence
  • Quest Charter Academy - Denials and Evidence
  • Are the schools connected to Gulen?
  • Are the schools connected to Gulen? Part 2
  • Organic Ties
  • More organic ties
  • Organic Ties - Part 3
  • [Generic] Science Academy - cut, paste, fill in the blank
  • TIE: Coordination across schools
  • TIE and Accord overhead
  • Skimming a percentage off 400 million
  • Charter schools offer numerous business opportunities
  • Charter schools offer numerous business opportunities Part 2
  • Financial links between charter schools and Gulen Movement
  • Financial links between charter schools and Gulen Movement, ctd
  • Charter bond financing - the next subprime crisis?
  • Concept Schools; Horizon Science Academy; CMSA etc
  • Concept Schools: now a multinational school management corporation
  • Fulton Science Academy
  • Fulton Science Academy, Cape Fear Board Member: "Yes, I am a Fethullah follower"
  • Fulton students at Gulenist, religious school in Turkey
  • Fulton Science Academy - letter from parent
  • Fulton Science Academy: comparing college prep with district
  • Fulton Science Academy: Charter Renewal 2011
  • Harmony Science Academy, Cosmos Foundation
  • How the Harmony schools serve the Gulen Movement
  • Paterson Charter School of Science and Technology
  • Paterson Charter School, ctd.
  • Syracuse Academy of Science
  • Central Jersey College Prep
  • Young Scholars of Central Pennsylvania
  • Bergen Arts and Science Charter School
  • Coral Academy of Science
  • Sonoran Science Academy
  • Magnolia Science Academy
  • Magnolia Science Academy ctd
  • Chesapeake Science Point
  • Truebright Science Academy
  • Lotus School for Excellence
  • Lotus School for Excellence - some restrictions apply
  • LISA Academy
  • Florida Schools: Orlando, River City, Sweetwater, Stars, New Springs
  • Dove Science Academy
  • Brookside-Frontier School
  • Triad Math and Science Academy
  • Rochester Academy Charter School
  • Buffalo Academy of Science
  • Massachusetts schools: Hampden & Pioneer
  • Proposed Gulen charter schools
  • Gulenist hijrah (migration)
  • ISWEEEP
  • Harmony Schools Fact-Checking
  • Vanishing High School Students
  • Standardized tests
  • Standardized tests, ctd
  • Application forms
    • Application forms ctd
  • Special education
  • Borrowed texts
  • From Massachusetts to Pakistan: More borrowed texts
  • Discrimination
  • Grants to Gulen schools
  • Federal grants for teaching Turkish
  • Importing English teachers from Turkey
  • Schools paying for visas, immigration
  • Culture of secrecy
  • Missing information on school websites
  • Report from Concept Schools staff member
  • Lawsuits against Gulen charters
  • Lawsuit: J.R. Johnson v. Cosmos Foundation and Solidarity
  • American enablers
  • Who is responsible?
  • Manipulation tactics
  • Legal threats: a Gulenist intimidation tactic
  • Collecting information on students - where does it go?
  • International schools provide insight
  • Growth of enrollment
  • Research tools
    • How to find school report cards
    • Charter school law
  • Brief updates
  • Pioneer Academy of Science
  • Brooklyn Amity School (private)
  • Submit information
  • Return to Guide to the Gulen Movement's Activities site

SITE INDEX

This page last updated Jan 27, 2012

Here is an alphabetical list of schools covered, with hyperlinks to the relevant pages (see further down for an index of topics):
  • Baltimore IT Academy  (replication of Chesapeake Science Point)
  • Bergen Arts and Science Charter School
  • Brooklyn Amity School  (private Gulen school with close ties to charters)
  • Brookside-Frontier Math and Science School
  • Buffalo Academy of Science Charter School
  • Central Jersey College Prep
  • Chesapeake Science Point
  • Chicago Math and Science Academy
  • Coral Academy of Science
  • Cosmos Foundation  (also here and here)
  • Discovery School of Tulsa
  • Dove Science Academy
  • Frontier School of Excellence (formerly known as Brookside-Frontier)
  • Frontier School of Innovation    
  • Fulton Science Academy   (also here and here)
  • Fulton Science Academy - board member admits to being follower of Fethullah Gulen
  • Fulton Science Academy - financial connection to Sema Education and Health Development Co., Inc.  (a Gulenist corporation in NY)
  • Fulton Sunshine Academy   (also here and here)
  • Fulton Science Academy academic performance
  • Fulton Science Academy Middle School charter renewal 2011
  • Gateway Science Academy of St. Louis  (under the Concept Schools umbrella)
  • Hampden Charter School of Science
  • Harmony Public Schools  (evidence of Gulen connection)
  • Harmony Public Schools - Denials and Evidence (of Gulen connection)
  • Harmony Public Schools - How they serve the Gulen Movement
  • Harmony Public Schools - powerpoint "Rapid Expansion of Harmony Schools - Is it Premature" - a look at academic performance
  • Harmony Public Schools - graph showing percent at-risk students compared to average Texas public schools 
  • Harmony School of Advancement High  -  see Harmony Public Schools
  • Harmony School of Art and Technology  -  see Harmony Public Schools
  • Harmony School of Discovery  -  see Harmony Public Schools
  • Harmony School of Endeavor  -  see Harmony Public Schools
  • Harmony School of Excellence  -  see Harmony Public Schools
  • Harmony School of Ingenuity  -  see Harmony Public Schools
  • Harmony School of Innovation  -  see Harmony Public Schools
  • Harmony School of Nature and Athletics  -  see Harmony Public Schools
  • Harmony School of Political Science - see Harmony Public Schools
  • Harmony School of Science  -  see Harmony Public Schools
  • Harmony Science Academy  -  see Harmony Public Schools
  • Horizon Science Academy
  • Indiana Math and Science Academy
  • LISA Academy
  • Little Scholars of Arkansas Academy, see LISA Academy
  • Lotus School for Excellence
  • Magnolia Science Academy    (also here)
  • Michigan Math and Science Academy
  • New Springs Middle School
  • Noble Academy
  • Orlando Science Middle School
  • Pacific Technology School  (under the Magnolia Foundation umbrella)
  • Paragon Science Academy  (sister school of Sonoran Science Academy)
  • Paterson Charter School For Science And Technology  (also here)
  • Pioneer Academy of Science   (private Gulen school with close ties to charters)
  • Pioneer Charter School of Science
  • Quest Charter Academy  (also here; under the Concept Schools umbrella)
  • River City Science Academy
  • Rochester Academy Charter School
  • Sonoran Science Academy     (also Denials and Evidence)
  • Stars Middle School
  • Sweetwater Branch Academy
  • Syracuse Academy of Science
  • Technology Enriched Accelerated High School (now Fulton Science Academy High School)
  • Triad Math and Science Academy
  • Truebright Science Academy
  • Wisconsin Career Academy  (under Concept Schools umbrella)
  • Young Scholars of Central Pennsylvania
  • Young Scholars of Western Pennsylvania


Topics about the schools, with hyperlinks (note that a few of these links lead to our companion website "A Guide to the Gulen Movement's Activities in the US):

Accord Institute of Education Research
American enablers
Apex Education
Application forms, student, inappropriate questions   (also here)
At-risk students, enrollment
Attrition, student
Bonds, financing, charter schools   (also here)
Borrowed texts  (also here)
Breeze, Inc.
Business opportunities (that Gulenists find in charter schools) also here, here and here
Chains, schools, how established
Characteristics of Gulen charter schools
Concept Schools  (also here, here and on slideshare)
Conflicts of interest (between schools and related businesses) also here, here and here
Connections between schools
Connections between schools and Gulen Movement (also here)
Coordination across schools (as shown by student handbooks, etc)
Coordination across schools (as shown by TIE)
Copying from non-Gulenist sources  (also here)
Copy-paste (also here and here)
Denials, public, of affiliation with Gulen Movement - Cosmos Foundation
Denials, public, of affiliation with Gulen Movement - Daisy Education Corporation
Denials, public, of affiliation with Gulen Movement - Concept Schools
Denials, public, of affiliation with Gulen Movement - Harmony Public Schools
Denials, public, of affiliation with Gulen Movement - Quest Charter Academy
Denials, public, of affiliation with Gulen Movement - Sonoran Science Academy
Discrimination  (Gulenist and non-Gulenist teachers treated differently)
Enrollment, decrease in higher grades
Enrollment, growth
Fact-checking, Harmony schools
Federal grants for teaching Turkish
Financial connections between schools and Gulen Movement - Concept Schools
Financial connections between schools and Gulen Movement - Fulton Science Academy
Generic Science Academy
Grants to Gulen schools  
Grants, Turkish language instruction
H-1B visas
Handbooks, student, copied across schools
Hijrah (migration of teachers)
How Harmony schools serve Gulen Movement
How charter schools serve Gulen Movement
How to submit information
Immigration
Importing English teachers from Turkey
Inaccuracies in media coverage
Indoctrination into Gulen Movement
Information, collection of, on students
International schools provide insight
ISWEEEP (science fair in Houston)
Law, charter school, by state
Lawsuits against Gulen charter schools
Legal threats
Manipulation tactics
Method of establishing school chains
Migration, teachers
Misinformation, about Harmony schools
Missing information on school websites
New Plan Learning
News, articles about Gulen schools
Organic Ties  (also here)
Overhead (also here and here)
Politicizing the issue
Practice TAKS (standardized tests)
Reasons why it's wrong
Regulation, charter school
Related party deals  (also here, here, here and here)
Related party deals, Harmony Public Schools 
Related party deals, Accord Institute 
Report cards, school, how to access
Research tools
Responsible, who is
Rotation, teachers (moving from one school to another)
SAT scores vs. percent at-risk students (graph on slideshare)
School information systems
Schools, list of US Gulen charter schools in operation (on companion website)
Schools, proposed
Schools, rejected
Secrecy, culture of    (also here)
Security systems, school
SETA think tank
Special education problems
Standardized tests  (also here and here)
Student-teacher ratios
Subprime lending   (charter school bond financing)
Subprime crisis  (charter school bond financing)
TAKS test, Texas
Threats, legal
TIE - Technology Integrated Education - coordination across schools
TIE - Technology Integrated Education - justification for Accord overhead
Vanishing high school students
Visas, schools paying for
Why it's wrong