Tuesday, March 27, 2012

THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: My Gulen Movement charter school piece in WaPo

THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: My Gulen Movement charter school piece in WaPo:


My Gulen Movement charter school piece in WaPo


Today the Washington Post published my piece about the Gulen Movement’s US charter schools as a guest post for The Answer Sheet, Valerie Strauss’s excellent daily online column which covers education topics.

The largest charter school network in the United States is operated by people in and associated with the Gulen Movement (GM), a secretive and controversial Turkish religious sect. With 135 schools enrolling more than 45,000 students, this network is substantially larger than KIPP, the well-known charter management organization with only 109 schools. A lack of awareness about this situation persists despite it being addressed in a national paper and in articles about Gulen charter schools in Utah (also here), Arizona, (also here)IllinoisTennesseePennsylvania (alsohere), IndianaOklahoma (and here), Texas (also here), ArkansasLouisiana (also here), New JerseyGeorgia, and North Carolina. It was also reported that the FBI and the Departments of 


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