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Monday, June 7, 2010

Schools Matter: The Charter School Reality: Free to Indoctrinate at Public Expense

Schools Matter: The Charter School Reality: Free to Indoctrinate at Public Expense

The Charter School Reality: Free to Indoctrinate at Public Expense

Sharon Higgins continues digging into the chain of tax-supported missionary schools operated by Turkish nationalists who are disciples of Fetullah Gülen.

Who could have guessed that when oversight and regulations are removed from schools spending public money that there are groups outside the officially sanctioned Oligarchy of Gates and Broad that have their own preferred indoctrination agendas? Just the cost of doing business, so they say. A clip from Charter School Scandals:
Similar school features are described in "Central Asia: Fetullah Gülen's Missionary Schools"by Bayram Balci (2002). This piece was published in a newsletter produced by the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) at Leiden University (Netherlands).
Here are some excerpts:
  • “The movement obtains much of its support from young urban men, especially doctors,