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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

School Tech Connect: Diane Says The Word

School Tech Connect: Diane Says The Word:


Diane Says The Word

And the word is Gulen.

Diane Ravitch has pointed out that the nation's largest charter chain is the Gulen movement, which is less of a chain than a network on the DL.  Diane says:
There are legitimate questions to be raised about public dollars funding schools that are tied to a cleric, as well as questions about a charter chain that has close ties with another nation.
Indeed. Good for her for going down this road. I've written about the Gulen movement before, in particular their Chicago branch, CMSA, and I always dread it because some of the people who write about the movement are xenophobes and Islamophobes. I am neither. Nor is the great researcher of the Gulen movement, Sharon Higgins.

This isn't a FOX story about the menace of Sharia law. This is a true story about a network of schools that in my