Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Magnolia Science Academy - A Gulen Charter School: In the beginning of Gulenist Magnolia Science Academy, young and inexperienced applicants

Magnolia Science Academy - A Gulen Charter School: In the beginning of Gulenist Magnolia Science Academy, young and inexperienced applicants:

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In the beginning of Gulenist Magnolia Science Academy, young and inexperienced applicants

 Examining the early days of Magnolia Science Academy, you will scratch your head in bewilderment at how these schools were approved back in 2001

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 CEO history of the Magnolia organization:
  • 2002 to ~2008: Huseyin Hurmali rotated out of the Gulen education world to become chairman of the West America Turkic Council (WATC), one of the six regional NGOs under the Turkic American Alliance, the Gulen Movement's national US umbrella. By 2012, Hurmali was back in Turkey working for the Journalists and Writers Foundation, a major, and completely acknowledged to be Gulenist public relations NGO (in Turkish: Gazeticiler ve Yazarlar Vakfi, GYV). Today Hurmanli, the first CEO of Magnolia, is the vice president of GYV.
  • 2009 to 2011: Suleyman Bahceci appears in the original 2000 application for the first Harmony school in TX, listed as a member of the charter school development team. Now he's executive VP for a Gulenist university in Virginia. https://www.linkedin.com/in/suleymanbahceci  
  • 2012 to 2014 (late summer): Mehmet Argin (returned to Turkey and works at a Gulenist university there.http://p.mevlana.edu.tr/margin/  
  • 2014 (late summer to end of year): Murat Biyik, interim CEO (now listed as a board member of the Gulen charter school in UT)
  • 2015 to present: Caprice Young
2. Info about the people involved with the very first Magnolia charter school. Since I've never been able to get hold of the original MSA-Reseda petition submitted to LAUSD in 2001 (would likely list the founding team members), I looked at the board members who appear on the very first tax return for the Dialog Cultural, Scientific & Educational Magnolia Science Academy - A Gulen Charter School: In the beginning of Gulenist Magnolia Science Academy, young and inexperienced applicants:

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