CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: U.S. “Fethullahci” charter schools

CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: U.S. “Fethullahci” charter schools

U.S. “Fethullahci” charter schools

by The Perimeter Primate

This is a list of 97 publicly-funded charter schools which are likely to be missionary schools started by followers of Fetullah Gülen, a controversial Turkish imam currently living in Pennsylvania. The operation of these schools is discreet and amorphous. There is no formal, visible umbrella organization that officially links them together in the way that is typical with very large EMOs like Imagine, White Hat, or KIPP.

As you search through the content on the schools’ Web sites, you will notice there are extremely strong visual similarities with a subset of these supposedly-unrelated schools on their Web site designs and school logos (intersecting ellipses).Most importantly, the Gülen-connected schools always share the same following characteristics:

• Emphasis on math, science, computers and robotics