| Note from Peyton: I've been hesitant to publish these numbers because they might encourage folks who don't know better to call for consolidation of our smaller school districts. We want local control of our schools by elected trustees -- folks we can vote out if we're unhappy. Consolidation is not the answer; it just makes the big pot of money bigger, with less citizen control and input. What is the cure? Smaller districts can put their check registers online and allow greater citizen input about their spending, especially as regards administrative expenses. |
| Ken Paxton (#70) Allen ISD Celina ISD Frisco ISD Lovejoy ISD McKinney ISD Melissa ISD Plano ISD Prosper ISD Wow: All but one of Ken Paxton's school districts spent more than the state average ($11,567). Given Ken's assurances to Tea Party and other voters that he's a true conservative, wondering what steps Ken has taken to suggest to Celina, Frisco, Lovejoy, McKinney, Melissa, Plano and -- gulp -- Prosper ISD's that they curb their spending? |
Charles Perry (#83)
Abernathy ISD
Anton ISD
Brownfield ISD
Denver City ISD
Frenship ISD
Idalou ISD
Levelland ISD
Loop ISD
Lorenzo ISD
Lubbock ISD
Lubbock-Cooper ISD
Morton ISD
New Deal ISD
Plains ISD
Roosevelt ISD
Ropes ISD
Seagraves ISD
Seminole ISD
Shallowater ISD
Slaton ISD
Smyer ISD
Southland ISD
Sudan ISD
Sundown ISD
Wellman-Union Cons ISD
Whiteface CISD
Whitharral ISD
Abernathy ISD
Anton ISD
Brownfield ISD
Denver City ISD
Frenship ISD
Idalou ISD
Levelland ISD
Loop ISD
Lorenzo ISD
Lubbock ISD
Lubbock-Cooper ISD
Morton ISD
New Deal ISD
Plains ISD
Roosevelt ISD
Ropes ISD
Seagraves ISD
Seminole ISD
Shallowater ISD
Slaton ISD
Smyer ISD
Southland ISD
Sudan ISD
Sundown ISD
Wellman-Union Cons ISD
Whiteface CISD
Whitharral ISD
| In claiming that Texas is "near the bottom (44th) in education funding per pupil," Fort Worth state senator Wendy Davis, a Democrat and a lawyer, has incorrectly quoted outdated information from the National Education Association; according to NEA's most recent report, Texas is supposedly 37th. But when we take a closer look at the formula NEA bases their rankings on, that number's wrong, too. He who writes the formula controls the outcome. according to the most recent Neasells not only her senate district's taxpayers short as half of the schools in her senate district spend more than the state average but also the rest of Texas.. . citing the National Education Association's report that Texans only spend $9,227 per student -- without first checking with the Texas Education Agency (use the alpha drop-down here) -- In effect she's saying Texans get a "C" for effort when in fact we get an "A." He who writes the formula controls the outcome. According to the formula devised by the National Education Association -- the one on which they base their big annual U.S. rankings report, based not on reality but on projections -- Texas supposedly only spends $9,227 per student. With a state senator like Wendy Davis, Texas students and taxpayers don't need enemies. As it turns out, based on research confirmed by the Texas Education Agency, NEA's formula does not include crucial data: capital outlay, and costs, NEA has weighted their formula in favor of slow- or no-growth older states; a quick look at the top 20 in the NEA rankings chart (their page 55 here; may show as 73 on your computer) confirms this. |
| The Devil's Seven-Prong Fork By Charlotte Iserbyt January 13, 2007 Our family has seen many changes in the past year which necessitated my pulling a “Houdini act” and withdrawing from the political activist scene. One of the changes in my life was a move from the city to the countryside … to a house overlooking the magnificent Kennebec River in Maine. This great river attracts wonderful birds, including our nation’s symbol, the Bald Eagle. They appear frequently, especially when the river freezes, swooping down onto the ice flows which provide a solid base from which they can feed. Would that our nation, whose symbol is the Bald Eagle, had similar solid constitutional support from its government thus enabling Americans to continue to live as free citizens. The Bald Eagle, still free, is flying with both wings. The United States, no longer free, is flying with but one wing … as pilots would say “on a wing and a prayer.” This article explains why our formerly free country is in the 21st Century flying with only one wing. The most devastating aspect of The Fork’s use is that we victims hadn’t the foggiest idea we were being victimized, but thought, to the contrary, that the government had our best interests at heart. The government, in partnership with the “usual suspects:” the elitist, internationalist corporate sector, the tax-exempt foundations, the Federal Reserve Bank, the educational system, the controlled media, and some important religious denominations, has year after year, consistently, worked to create an environment which keeps its citizens ignorant regarding what is really going on, thereby creating the necessary citizen apathy which allows “the usual suspects” to accomplish the dismantlement of the greatest, freest, most successful nation in the history of the world. If Americans do not understand how they have been victimized by “The Seven Prong Fork,” if they do not start asking questions, and demanding answers; if they do not take action to reverse our nation’s slide into world government, they will experience, in the very near future, what George Orwell described so well in his novel 1984: For the history of regional governance and subversion in the United States and abroad the reader can go to americandeception.com, a FREE website, which provides scanned primary research, and click on researcher/writer Debbie Niwa’s hot-off-the-press The Emerging North American Union (NAU), which includes a most useful Timeline (1921-2006); Maureen Heaton’s The Impossible Dream; and The Don Bell Reports. This website also makes available to the public, for the first time, the 4000-page transcript of the 1953 Reece and Cox Congressional Committee hearings related to the investigation of the subversive activities of the tax-exempt foundations, for which Norman Dodd served as Research Director. During a meeting in New York City in 1953 Dodd was told by Rowan Gaither, the President of the Ford Foundation, that the White House instructed the foundations “to use their grant-making power to so alter life in the United States that we can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union.” The foundations, especially Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Ford, concerned that the American people, to whom they owed their tax exemption, would have access to the record of these hearings, scooped up all available copies immediately after the hearings were abruptly terminated in 1954. President Eisenhower, carrying out the above treasonous directive to the foundations, signed the first agreements with the Soviet Union in 1958 at the peak of the Cold War. (Had those hearings NOT been terminated, it is unlikely Americans would be looking at the demise of their nation under the NAU, or that the virtual merger of Russia’s and the United States’ basic political, economic, cultural, educational, and law enforcement systems would have taken place over the past 48 years.) THE DEVIL’S SEVEN PRONG FORK consists of: Prong One: Semantic Deception, covered by George Orwell in 1984, calls for lying through the deceitful use of words. Few Americans question the innocent-sounding words/phrases such as “regionalism,” “consolidation,” “democracy” “free trade,” “public/private partnerships,” “school choice,” “base closures” “faith-based,” “freedom,” “patriot,” “security,” “prosperity,” “peace” et al. Why has no one told the American people that regionalism, be it local, county, state, national or international, is COMMUNISM? The regionalization (consolidation) of the world is quite similar to the three-stage plan outlined by Stalin at the 1936 Communist International. At that meeting, the official program proclaimed: "Dictatorship can be established only by a victory of socialism in different countries or groups of countries, after which there would be federal unions of the various groupings of these socialist countries, and the third stage would be an amalgamation of these regional federal unions into a world union of socialist nations.” What Stalin called for is taking place in front of our very eyes, with the NAU and other emerging global regional groupings, following the model of the European Union. Regionalism erases constitutional, geographical borders and in so doing does away with locally-elected officials, creating larger and larger municipal units managed by faceless, highly-trained, socialist change agent bureaucrats. A communist writer, Morris Zeitlin, admits that regionalism is communism in an article entitled “Planning is Socialism’s Trademark” published in the Communist Party’s Daily World 11/8/75. Go to deliberatedumbingdown.com where the deliberate dumbing down of America…A Chronological Paper Trail can be downloaded FREE. Zeitlin’s article is found on Page 134. More recently, former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev confirmed Zeitlin’s comments when he, during a visit to London on March 23, 2000, referred to the emerging European (regional) Union (EU) as “the new European Soviet.” Does this not make the NAU the New American Soviet? Regionalism has been fostered not only by the left, as would be expected, but by mainstream conservative leadership as well. I recall, at a Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in the mid-seventies an exchange of views between the former editor of National Review, William Rusher, and myself. I asked “Why doesn’t the conservative media (Human Events, National Review, etc.) ever discuss regionalism? His response was: “I guess they just don’t think it’s very important.” On December 28, 2006 Michael Medved, neoconservative writer and radio talk show host, wrote “Shame on Demagogues Exploiting ‘North American Union’”, an article which confirms what Rusher said but goes even further by actively supporting the NAU (regionalism). Medved’s article Townhall.com is a vitriolic diatribe in which he attacks concerned, well-informed and highly-respected Americans, including journalists, due to their opposition to the NAU and the highway through Texas and the Great Plains connecting the USA, Mexico, and Canada. He calls them “paranoid, lunatics, losers, crooks, cranks, demagogues and opportunists.” His hysterical ranting indicates that CNN's Lou Dobbs and Jerome Corsi, amongst other writers, are succeeding in waking up Americans to the fact that their nation is on its way out as a Constitutional Republic unless they act quickly. Dobbs described the merger controversy this way in a recent CNN broadcast: EARTH times.org reported 1/7/07 “’A U.S.-European economic partnership like NAFTA is critical to both regions’ economies’, new European Union President Angela Merkel of Germany says.” The late Andrew Carnegie, who, in 1886, called for “creating two nations out of one people” (return the United States to the ‘mother’ country— England) must be smiling from his grave! Other examples (IN SOLID CAPS) of the use of deceptive words follow:
Prong Two is the constant use of German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Hegel’s (1770-1831) Dialectic in moving persons toward predetermined goals and objectives. About thirty years ago, before I had the foggiest idea of education change agent manipulation of the community, including teachers, to get destructive immoral and non- academic programs initiated without too much flack, I unknowingly played out the dialectic method but this time in regard to doing laundry. I put my red woolen sweater in the laundry (hot water) with my husband’s white cotton shirts. The result: pink cotton shirts for my him and a red sweater the size of a wash cloth for me. The important result, as it relates to how the dialectic plays out, is that I never had to do laundry again, not for my husband, not for either of my two sons. The mandate was “Don’t give Mom your laundry!” Now, had I never wanted to do laundry again and had I understood how the use of the dialectic inevitably gets what one wants, I would have done exactly what I unknowingly did with such success. Prong Three is the use of Gradualism (put the frog in cold water and gradually turn up the heat until the frog is dead, without having the faintest idea what happened to him.) For over 150 years we have had gradualism used on us. Richard Gardner, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and U.S. Ambassador to Italy, said in a 1968 speech “The Hard Road to World Order:” “In short, we are likely to do better by building our ‘house of world order’ from the bottom up rather than the top down. It will look like a great, ‘booming, buzzing confusion,’ to use William James’s famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, is likely to get us to world order faster than the old-fashioned frontal attack.” Prong Four is Control of the Media. David Rockefeller, in Baden-Baden, Germany, 1991, thanked the major media for keeping secret the elitists’ plan for the world. He said:“… it would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government.” Prong Five/Endless Money Supply depends on the unconstitutional, private Federal Reserve Bank’s ability to create hundreds of billions of dollars out of thin air, when necessary. The education “industry,” for example, has been a recipient of whatever it wanted to “deliberately dumb down” and “condition” future Americans so they don’t know what is happening to them or their country. If you haven’t been taught what economic/political system you have, why would you be upset if, as is the case today, the public/private partnerships implement the corporate fascist/socialist planned economy? Your neighbor’s glazed expression when asked if he approves of the NAU or, at the local level, the consolidation of all the cities in his county (regionalism) is a good example of the damage inflicted on their brains (cognitive dissonance) by the public education system. Prong Six relates to control of agenda of Republican and Democrat Parties, allowing only those individuals with an international socialist philosophy to be nominated and, once elected, ensuring they vote the One Party (internationalist) Line. Prong Seven is UN control of education lifelong under the umbrella of the school district (community re- education). The late Professor Benjamin Bloom, an internationalist closely associated with UNESCO, and the father of The Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, in which all teachers have been trained, said in his book All Our Children Learning: “The purpose of education and the schools is to change the thoughts, feelings and actions of students.” The UN and the tax-exempt foundations have created a socialist America through Skinnerian/Pavlovian behavior modification programs (animal training which bypasses the brain) and the radical change from academics to the communist/fascist polytechnical (lifelong school- to- work job quota system) being implemented today under the controversial No Child Left Behind/ No American Left Alone Act. |
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The 13 states who have stood up
to the feds and declined to apply
for Phase II of Race to the Top:
to the feds and declined to apply
for Phase II of Race to the Top:
13
- Alaska
- Idaho
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Minnesota
- North Dakota
- Oregon
- South Dakota
- Texas
- Vermont
- Virginia
- West Virginia
- Wyoming
| Q: So what has been Texas politicians' post SR-85 focus? A: More style, less substance. |
| About the "Don't Tread on Me" Gadsden flag: "it was in the fall of 1775 when the United States Navy was established. Their main job was to intercept British ships who were attempting to deliver supplies to the British troups in the colonies. To support the Navy, five companies of Marines were mustered to accompany them on their first mission. These first Marines originated from Philadelphia and carried drums painted yellow with a coiled rattlesnake with thirteen rattles. These thirteen rattles represented the original thirteen colonies. The motto painted on these drums was "Don't Tread On Me". This is the first recorded telling of what the future Gadsden flag would symbolize. This flag was designed and named after American patriot Christopher Gadsden." (SOURCE) |
| Texas public school officials playing golf with school vendors. (PHOTO--Peyton Wolcott) |
| Pretender to the Speaker's Chair Joe Straus with friend at a public-private partnership, the Texas Rangers stadium. Might this be The Last Dance of the RINOs in Texas? |
The battle to restore America to its conservative roots
Rule 1: Know Thine Enemy
By Peyton Wolcott
Saturday, January 1, 2011 / Updated Monday, January 3, 2011 / 5:14 a.m.
Rule 1: Know Thine Enemy
By Peyton Wolcott
Saturday, January 1, 2011 / Updated Monday, January 3, 2011 / 5:14 a.m.
Charlotte Iserbyt, Reagan White House education official and author of
The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, has given us a clear road map for
identifying how liberal progressives have gradually, by stealth, using such
means as semantic deception (doublespeak), media control and
regionalism, reduced our great republic to a shadow of its
former self, its poor third world country cousin--socialism.
The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, has given us a clear road map for
identifying how liberal progressives have gradually, by stealth, using such
means as semantic deception (doublespeak), media control and
regionalism, reduced our great republic to a shadow of its
former self, its poor third world country cousin--socialism.
| The seven prongs: |
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| David Rockefeller at 1991 Bilderberg conference in Baden-Baden, Germany "We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries." |
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And the (Speaker's) Race is
On in Texas!
On in Texas!
Here's Charlotte Iserbyt's article; please take time to read it as it contains many detailed
examples of the 7-pronged effort by liberal progressives:
examples of the 7-pronged effort by liberal progressives:
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| “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on the human face—forever . . . and remember, that is forever.” |
| NOW I KNOW WHY I NEVER LIKED IKE |
| Gen. Dwight Eisenhower hurt American troops by forcing them to defer to the inept Brit Montgomery; Ike also wouldn't let Gen. Patton defeat the Soviets; now we know why. |
“For any American to think that it is acceptable for the president of the United
States and…our government, to proceed without the approval of Congress or a
dialogue and a debate and a public voice from the people of this country is
absolutely unconscionable… What they’re doing is creating a brave new world, an
Orwellian world, in which the will of the people is absolutely irrelevant.”
States and…our government, to proceed without the approval of Congress or a
dialogue and a debate and a public voice from the people of this country is
absolutely unconscionable… What they’re doing is creating a brave new world, an
Orwellian world, in which the will of the people is absolutely irrelevant.”
| British writer George Orwell maintained that throughout World War II there existed in the Allied press a "self censorship" on stories that cast the Soviets in a negative light. (Jeffrey St. John) |
Why would Texas Speaker of the
House Joe Straus give $2,500 in
cash to state representative
Harvey Hilderbran (see chart
below) -- who had no Democrat
opponents? And what does this
have to do with public schools?
House Joe Straus give $2,500 in
cash to state representative
Harvey Hilderbran (see chart
below) -- who had no Democrat
opponents? And what does this
have to do with public schools?
| Harvey Hilderbran (left) with district school superintendent in 2004. (PHOTO--Peyton Wolcott) |
We're following the money on this one, friends -- along
with the Texas Ethics Commission. Many thanks to Mark
Ramsey for preparing this graph.
with the Texas Ethics Commission. Many thanks to Mark
Ramsey for preparing this graph.
By Peyton Wolcott
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 / 6:39 a.m.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 / 6:39 a.m.
DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS
With $1.6 million in art they
still haven't found, how will
DPS manage 40,000 stimulus-
funded laptops?
By Peyton Wolcott
Mon., Jan. 17, 2011 / 11:30 a.m.
With $1.6 million in art they
still haven't found, how will
DPS manage 40,000 stimulus-
funded laptops?
By Peyton Wolcott
Mon., Jan. 17, 2011 / 11:30 a.m.
Detroit's plan
Grab your pocketbook, federal
taxpayers. According to Jennifer
Chambers in the Detroit News,
"Detroit Public Schools would close
nearly half of its schools in the next
two years, and increase high school
class sizes to 62 by the following
year, under a deficit-reduction plan
filed with the state. The plan, part of
a monthly update Emergency
Financial Manager Robert Bobb gives
the Department of Education, was
filed late Monday to provide insight
into Bobb's progress in his attempt to
slash a $327 million deficit in the
district to zero over the next several
years. Under it, the district would
slim down from 142 schools now to
72 during 2012-13."
Grab your pocketbook, federal
taxpayers. According to Jennifer
Chambers in the Detroit News,
"Detroit Public Schools would close
nearly half of its schools in the next
two years, and increase high school
class sizes to 62 by the following
year, under a deficit-reduction plan
filed with the state. The plan, part of
a monthly update Emergency
Financial Manager Robert Bobb gives
the Department of Education, was
filed late Monday to provide insight
into Bobb's progress in his attempt to
slash a $327 million deficit in the
district to zero over the next several
years. Under it, the district would
slim down from 142 schools now to
72 during 2012-13."
- Close 1/2 of schools
- 62 students per classroom
When DPS hired Connie Calloway
(top left) as their superintendent in
2007, she promised, "“I will
carefully handle all resources you
trust me with for the benefit of the
children of Detroit.”
But with little apparent financial
oversight by her school board,
Connie appears to have fallen into
the same pattern we've seen time
and again, the lure of the luxe life;
both of her chauffeurs quit when
she began insisting that they carry
her purse for her.
And while Connie can't be blamed
for the $1.6 million in original art
purchased by predecessor Ken
Burnley from the Sherry
Washington (top right) Gallery, art
purchased with money approved by
voters for "building or repairing
decaying schools," despite requests
from her trustees (and me) Connie
failed to locate it during her 18-
month tenure. Maybe Connie can
spare a few minutes from her new
charter school gig and try Ebay.
(top left) as their superintendent in
2007, she promised, "“I will
carefully handle all resources you
trust me with for the benefit of the
children of Detroit.”
But with little apparent financial
oversight by her school board,
Connie appears to have fallen into
the same pattern we've seen time
and again, the lure of the luxe life;
both of her chauffeurs quit when
she began insisting that they carry
her purse for her.
And while Connie can't be blamed
for the $1.6 million in original art
purchased by predecessor Ken
Burnley from the Sherry
Washington (top right) Gallery, art
purchased with money approved by
voters for "building or repairing
decaying schools," despite requests
from her trustees (and me) Connie
failed to locate it during her 18-
month tenure. Maybe Connie can
spare a few minutes from her new
charter school gig and try Ebay.
Today's MLK's birthday
How best to honor him?
By Peyton Wolcott
Mon., Jan. 17, 2011/11:44 a.m.
How best to honor him?
By Peyton Wolcott
Mon., Jan. 17, 2011/11:44 a.m.
This is a great day to take a fresh
look at the 10-point commitment
pledge cards he required early civil
rights marchers to sign.
They're at the far left here.
A great way to honor Dr. King's
memory would be to ask your local
school trustees and school trustee
candidates to sign similar pledges
adapted to school trustee positions,
here.
look at the 10-point commitment
pledge cards he required early civil
rights marchers to sign.
They're at the far left here.
A great way to honor Dr. King's
memory would be to ask your local
school trustees and school trustee
candidates to sign similar pledges
adapted to school trustee positions,
here.
| 1965: Martin Luther King (center) crossing Selma, Alabama bridge. |
When Turkish religious leader Fethullah Gulen was
honored in the Texas Senate, why was it big news in Turkey
and a big yawn in the U.S.A.? Is our MSM asleep?
By Peyton Wolcott
Februrary 2, 2011 / Updated Monday, February 14, 2011 / 11:16 a.m.
honored in the Texas Senate, why was it big news in Turkey
and a big yawn in the U.S.A.? Is our MSM asleep?
By Peyton Wolcott
Februrary 2, 2011 / Updated Monday, February 14, 2011 / 11:16 a.m.
TX SCHOOL SPENDING
Good news, Texas! At $11,567 per
student we're 15th in the US--not 44th
as state senator Wendy Davis claims
By Peyton Wolcott
Updated Wed., Feb. 9, 2011 / 8:01 a.m.
Good news, Texas! At $11,567 per
student we're 15th in the US--not 44th
as state senator Wendy Davis claims
By Peyton Wolcott
Updated Wed., Feb. 9, 2011 / 8:01 a.m.
| BREAKING NEWS -- OR NOT? Although this photo at left celebrating the Texas Senate's passage of Resolution 85 honoring Fethullah Gulen was published the same week SR 85 passed (Jan. 25, 2011) in a Turkish newspaper, US coverage -- except for my website -- has been nil until bloggers and web reporters finally began also picking up the story. |
Developing . . . . |
First off, let's settle this for once and for all, whether there is a link between the Fetullah Gulen movement and the
Harmony charter (and others in other states) schools.
To do this fairly and objectively, let's follow the money lineage. Here's a statement from the Harmony Schools
website, in their own words which establishes and confirms a direct link between the Harmony charter schools and
the Cosmos Foundation:
Harmony charter (and others in other states) schools.
To do this fairly and objectively, let's follow the money lineage. Here's a statement from the Harmony Schools
website, in their own words which establishes and confirms a direct link between the Harmony charter schools and
the Cosmos Foundation:
| Harmony Public Schools are high performing K-12 public charter schools in Texas operated by Cosmos Foundation, that focus on math, science, engineering, and computer technologies to provide opportunities for underserved communities. |
Cosmos Foundation
Just who and what is the Cosmos Foundation? According to the most recently filed IRS form 990 (required of all
public charities) filed by Cosmos:
Just who and what is the Cosmos Foundation? According to the most recently filed IRS form 990 (required of all
public charities) filed by Cosmos:
This list of Cosmos officials showcases one of the main problems with charter schools: We are sending public tax
dollars to foundations whose officers are NOT elected officials -- as are local school trustees - but who are instead
appointees about whom we know little or nothing; the ballot box has a way of vetting folks' backgrounds. And just
where are these 8 individuals' names on either the Harmony Schools or the Cosmos Foundation websites? The only
place I've been able to find their names are on the required IRS 990 filings. Do any of these 8 have any US education
credentials or ties to Fetullah Gulen and/or his movement? Do the Turkish names of 7 of the 8 listed individuals
reflect the racial and ideological makeup of Cosmos and Harmony schools?
dollars to foundations whose officers are NOT elected officials -- as are local school trustees - but who are instead
appointees about whom we know little or nothing; the ballot box has a way of vetting folks' backgrounds. And just
where are these 8 individuals' names on either the Harmony Schools or the Cosmos Foundation websites? The only
place I've been able to find their names are on the required IRS 990 filings. Do any of these 8 have any US education
credentials or ties to Fetullah Gulen and/or his movement? Do the Turkish names of 7 of the 8 listed individuals
reflect the racial and ideological makeup of Cosmos and Harmony schools?
| Cosmos has posted incorrect information: According to the foundation's website, "the Cosmos Foundation has been currently operating twenty-five (25) charter schools in all major cities (Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio and El Paso) of the state of Texas." The number of schools is much higher: 33 to 38, depending on your source. |
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Cooper ISD
Cumby ISD
Edgewood ISD (Van Zandt)
Eustace ISD
Fannindel ISD
Fruitvale ISD
Grand Saline ISD
Greenville ISD
Leonard ISD
Lindale ISD
Lone Oak ISD
Mabank ISD
Martins Mill ISD
Miller Grove ISD
Quinlan ISD
Rains ISD
Royse City ISD
Terrell ISD
Van ISD
Wills Point ISD
Wolfe City ISD
Alba-Golden ISD
Athens ISD
Bland ISD
Boles ISD
Brownsboro ISD
Caddo Mills ISD
Campbell ISD
Canton ISD
Celeste ISD
Commerce ISD
Community ISD
Cooper ISD
Cumby ISD
Edgewood ISD (Van Zandt)
Eustace ISD
Fannindel ISD
Fruitvale ISD
Grand Saline ISD
Greenville ISD
Leonard ISD
Lindale ISD
Lone Oak ISD
Mabank ISD
Martins Mill ISD
Miller Grove ISD
Quinlan ISD
Rains ISD
Royse City ISD
Terrell ISD
Van ISD
Wills Point ISD
Wolfe City ISD
Wayne Christian (#9)
Broaddus ISD
Brookeland ISD
Buna ISD
Center ISD
Central Heights ISD
Chireno ISD
Colmesneil ISD
Cushing ISD
Douglass ISD
Etoile ISD
Evadale ISD
Excelsior ISD
Garrison ISD
Hemphill ISD
Jasper ISD
Joaquin ISD
Kirbyville Cons ISD
Martinsville ISD
Nacogdoches ISD
San Augustine ISD
Shelbyville ISD
Tenaha ISD
Timpson ISD
Vidor ISD
West Sabine ISD
Woden ISD
Broaddus ISD
Brookeland ISD
Buna ISD
Center ISD
Central Heights ISD
Chireno ISD
Colmesneil ISD
Cushing ISD
Douglass ISD
Etoile ISD
Evadale ISD
Excelsior ISD
Garrison ISD
Hemphill ISD
Jasper ISD
Joaquin ISD
Kirbyville Cons ISD
Martinsville ISD
Nacogdoches ISD
San Augustine ISD
Shelbyville ISD
Tenaha ISD
Timpson ISD
Vidor ISD
West Sabine ISD
Woden ISD
66 - Van Taylor
Allen ISD
Frisco ISD
Plano ISD
Allen ISD
Frisco ISD
Plano ISD
61 - Phil King
Aledo ISD
Alvord ISD
Azle ISD
Boyd ISD
Bridgeport ISD
Brock ISD
Chico ISD
Decatur ISD
Garner ISD
Granbury ISD
Jacksboro ISD
Krum ISD
Lipan ISD
Millsap ISD
Mineral Wells ISD
Northwest ISD
Paradise ISD
Peaster ISD
Perrin-Whitt Cons ISD
Poolville ISD
Slidell ISD
Springtown ISD
Weatherford ISD
Aledo ISD
Alvord ISD
Azle ISD
Boyd ISD
Bridgeport ISD
Brock ISD
Chico ISD
Decatur ISD
Garner ISD
Granbury ISD
Jacksboro ISD
Krum ISD
Lipan ISD
Millsap ISD
Mineral Wells ISD
Northwest ISD
Paradise ISD
Peaster ISD
Perrin-Whitt Cons ISD
Poolville ISD
Slidell ISD
Springtown ISD
Weatherford ISD
89 - Jodie Laubenberg
Allen ISD
Anna ISD
Bland ISD
Blue Ridge ISD
Celina ISD
Community ISD
Farmersville ISD
Gunter ISD
Leonard ISD
Lovejoy ISD
McKinney ISD
Melissa ISD
Plano ISD
Princeton ISD
Rockwall ISD
Royse City ISD
Trenton ISD
Van Alstyne ISD
Whitewright ISD
Wylie ISD (Collin)
Allen ISD
Anna ISD
Bland ISD
Blue Ridge ISD
Celina ISD
Community ISD
Farmersville ISD
Gunter ISD
Leonard ISD
Lovejoy ISD
McKinney ISD
Melissa ISD
Plano ISD
Princeton ISD
Rockwall ISD
Royse City ISD
Trenton ISD
Van Alstyne ISD
Whitewright ISD
Wylie ISD (Collin)
63 - Tan Parker
Argyle ISD
Aubrey ISD
Celina ISD
Denton ISD
Era ISD
Frisco ISD
Krum ISD
Lake Dallas ISD
Lewisville ISD
Northwest ISD
Pilot Point ISD
Ponder ISD
Prosper ISD
Sanger ISD
Slidell ISD
Argyle ISD
Aubrey ISD
Celina ISD
Denton ISD
Era ISD
Frisco ISD
Krum ISD
Lake Dallas ISD
Lewisville ISD
Northwest ISD
Pilot Point ISD
Ponder ISD
Prosper ISD
Sanger ISD
Slidell ISD
96 - Bill Zedler
Arlington ISD
Burleson ISD
Crowley ISD
Everman ISD
Fort Worth ISD
Kennedale ISD
Mansfield ISD
Arlington ISD
Burleson ISD
Crowley ISD
Everman ISD
Fort Worth ISD
Kennedale ISD
Mansfield ISD
David Simpson (#7)
Chapel Hill ISD
Gladewater ISD
Kilgore ISD
Lindale ISD
Longview ISD
Pine Tree ISD
Sabine ISD
Spring Hill ISD
Tyler ISD
Van ISD
White Oak ISD
Winona ISD
Chapel Hill ISD
Gladewater ISD
Kilgore ISD
Lindale ISD
Longview ISD
Pine Tree ISD
Sabine ISD
Spring Hill ISD
Tyler ISD
Van ISD
White Oak ISD
Winona ISD
| 85 - Jim Landtroop Abernathy ISD Abilene ISD Anson ISD Aspermont ISD Big Spring ISD Borden County ISD Brownfield ISD Clyde Cons ISD Coahoma ISD Cotton Center ISD Crosbyton Cons ISD Dawson ISD Floydada ISD Forsan ISD Glasscock ISD Hale Center ISD Hamlin ISD Haskell Cons ISD Hawley ISD Hermleigh ISD Irion Co. ISD Jayton-Girard ISD Lockney ISD Loop ISD Lorenzo ISD Lueders-Avoca ISD Meadow ISD Merkel ISD Motley County ISD New Home ISD O'Donnell ISD Olton ISD Paint Creek ISD Petersburg ISD Plainview ISD Post ISD Ralls ISD Reagan County ISD Roby Cons ISD Ropes ISD Roscoe ISD Rotan ISD Rule ISD Sands Cons ISD Seagraves ISD Slaton ISD Snyder ISD Southland ISD Spur ISD Stamford ISD Stanton ISD Sterling City ISD Sweetwater ISD Tahoka ISD Trent ISD Turkey-Quitaque ISD Wellman-Union Cons ISD Wilson ISD |
Cindy Burkett (#101)
Dallas ISD
Garland ISD
Mesquite ISD
Sunnyvale ISD
Dallas ISD
Garland ISD
Mesquite ISD
Sunnyvale ISD
Erwin Cain (#3)
Avery ISD
Chapel Hill ISD
Chisum ISD
Clarksville ISD
Commerce ISD
Como-Pickton ISD
Cooper ISD
Cumby ISD
Daingerfield-Lone Star ISD
Detroit ISD
Fannindel ISD
Harts Bluff ISD
Honey Grove ISD
Miller Grove ISD
Mount Pleasant ISD
Mount Vernon ISD
North Hopkins ISD
North Lamar ISD
Paris ISD
Pewitt Cons ISD
Prairiland ISD
Rivercrest ISD
Roxton ISD
Saltillo ISD
Sulphur Bluff ISD
Sulphur Springs ISD
Winfield ISD
Winnsboro ISD
Yantis ISD
Avery ISD
Chapel Hill ISD
Chisum ISD
Clarksville ISD
Commerce ISD
Como-Pickton ISD
Cooper ISD
Cumby ISD
Daingerfield-Lone Star ISD
Detroit ISD
Fannindel ISD
Harts Bluff ISD
Honey Grove ISD
Miller Grove ISD
Mount Pleasant ISD
Mount Vernon ISD
North Hopkins ISD
North Lamar ISD
Paris ISD
Pewitt Cons ISD
Prairiland ISD
Rivercrest ISD
Roxton ISD
Saltillo ISD
Sulphur Bluff ISD
Sulphur Springs ISD
Winfield ISD
Winnsboro ISD
Yantis ISD
$ 10,518
$ 8,810
$ 10,271
$ 35,420
$ 8,810
$ 10,271
$ 35,420
Leo Berman (#6)
Arp ISD
Bullard ISD
Chapel Hill ISD
Troup ISD
Tyler ISD
Whitehouse ISD
Arp ISD
Bullard ISD
Chapel Hill ISD
Troup ISD
Tyler ISD
Whitehouse ISD
$ 12,820
$ 12,875
$ 12,119
$ 9,918
$ 11,166
$ 7,625
$ 12,875
$ 12,119
$ 9,918
$ 11,166
$ 7,625
Per Pupil
Spending
(2008-09)
actual expenditures
all funds
Spending
(2008-09)
actual expenditures
all funds
Texas House of
Representatives
District #
Representatives
District #
Per Pupil
Spending
(2008-09)
actual expenditures
all funds
Spending
(2008-09)
actual expenditures
all funds
$ 8,808
$ 9,376
$ 16,264
$ 15,450
$ 18,919
$ 9,963
$ 12,909
$ 10,190
$ 10,528
$ 21,838
$ 9,458
$ 8,205
$ 24,785
$ 8,889
$ 9,928
$ 8,117
$ 10,868
$ 9,278
$ 13,841
$ 9,028
$ 8,236
$ 11,074
$ 11,789
$ 12,848
$ 10,315
$ 8,949
$ 10,553
$ 8,583
$ 11,948
$ 9,376
$ 16,264
$ 15,450
$ 18,919
$ 9,963
$ 12,909
$ 10,190
$ 10,528
$ 21,838
$ 9,458
$ 8,205
$ 24,785
$ 8,889
$ 9,928
$ 8,117
$ 10,868
$ 9,278
$ 13,841
$ 9,028
$ 8,236
$ 11,074
$ 11,789
$ 12,848
$ 10,315
$ 8,949
$ 10,553
$ 8,583
$ 11,948
| GRAPHIC: Mark Ramsey/ Texas GOP |
$ 11,460
$ 15,038
$ 8,727
$ 13,448
$ 8,867
$ 9,723
$ 10,205
$ 15,103
$ 8,076
$ 31,485
$ 16,055
$ 10,737
$ 12,931
$ 10,536
$ 10,992
$ 12,443
$ 8,514
$ 10,076
$ 8,967
$ 11,034
$ 10,695
$ 21,950
$ 12,083
$ 10,154
$ 11,453
$ 8,535
$ 15,038
$ 8,727
$ 13,448
$ 8,867
$ 9,723
$ 10,205
$ 15,103
$ 8,076
$ 31,485
$ 16,055
$ 10,737
$ 12,931
$ 10,536
$ 10,992
$ 12,443
$ 8,514
$ 10,076
$ 8,967
$ 11,034
$ 10,695
$ 21,950
$ 12,083
$ 10,154
$ 11,453
$ 8,535
$ 10,196
$ 9,159
$ 25,218
$ 10,755
$ 8,722
$ 11,804
$ 11,479
$ 11,098
$ 27,313
$ 18,919
$ 10,342
$ 12,909
$ 11,130
$ 13,883
$ 12,203
$ 10,465
$ 9,985
$ 9,943
$ 8,709
$ 9,682
$ 9,000
$ 11,452
$ 9,814
$ 10,491
$ 8,889
$ 9,150
$ 10,221
$ 13,293
$ 9,833
$ 18,407
$ 8,403
$ 15,949
$ 9,159
$ 25,218
$ 10,755
$ 8,722
$ 11,804
$ 11,479
$ 11,098
$ 27,313
$ 18,919
$ 10,342
$ 12,909
$ 11,130
$ 13,883
$ 12,203
$ 10,465
$ 9,985
$ 9,943
$ 8,709
$ 9,682
$ 9,000
$ 11,452
$ 9,814
$ 10,491
$ 8,889
$ 9,150
$ 10,221
$ 13,293
$ 9,833
$ 18,407
$ 8,403
$ 15,949
$ 15,773
$ 12,704
$ 9,651
$ 20,405
$ 9,984
$ 34,547
$ 21,845
$ 12,549
$ 15,768
$ 10,208
$ 13,935
$ 16,347
$ 10,190
$ 22,789
$ 9,660
$ 17,394
$ 18,476
$ 12,048
$ 10,327
$ 10,212
$ 14,560
$ 16,520
$ 13,513
$ 12,704
$ 9,651
$ 20,405
$ 9,984
$ 34,547
$ 21,845
$ 12,549
$ 15,768
$ 10,208
$ 13,935
$ 16,347
$ 10,190
$ 22,789
$ 9,660
$ 17,394
$ 18,476
$ 12,048
$ 10,327
$ 10,212
$ 14,560
$ 16,520
$ 13,513
$ 11,331
$ 16,429
$ 16,710
$ 15,614
$ 11,724
$ 17,594
$ 11,890
$ 43,336
$ 16,429
$ 16,710
$ 15,614
$ 11,724
$ 17,594
$ 11,890
$ 43,336
$ 11,516
$ 15,036
$ 16,429
$ 14,875
$ 10,508
$ 16,710
$ 16,347
$ 14,168
$ 11,805
$ 17,394
$ 8,862
$ 19,718
$ 43,336
$ 10,835
$ 14,560
$ 15,036
$ 16,429
$ 14,875
$ 10,508
$ 16,710
$ 16,347
$ 14,168
$ 11,805
$ 17,394
$ 8,862
$ 19,718
$ 43,336
$ 10,835
$ 14,560
$ 11,292
$ 11,359
$ 12,126
$ 11,642
$ 14,181
$ 7,745
$ 10,301
$ 26,855
$ 21,472
$ 9,130
$ 12,656
$ 16,131
$ 10,345
$ 15,747
$ 15,613
$ 10,220
$ 17,710
$ 22,094
$ 11,182
$ 11,049
$ 9,829
$ 13,640
$ 15,509
$ 17,312
$ 11,508
$ 22,826
$ 11,359
$ 10,456
$ 11,925
$ 13,725
$ 11,260
$ 9,145
$ 9,954
$ 10,205
$ 8,985
$ 11,222
$ 12,848
$ 13,634
$ 11,951
$ 11,545
$ 18,784
$ 11,382
$ 9,613
$ 14,981
$ 9,601
$ 11,874
$ 12,818
$ 9,710
$ 11,925
$ 13,725
$ 11,260
$ 9,145
$ 9,954
$ 10,205
$ 8,985
$ 11,222
$ 12,848
$ 13,634
$ 11,951
$ 11,545
$ 18,784
$ 11,382
$ 9,613
$ 14,981
$ 9,601
$ 11,874
$ 12,818
$ 9,710
$ 11,331
$ 17,277
$ 25,218
$ 11,025
$ 16,429
$ 10,342
$ 8,377
$ 16,961
$ 9,682
$ 15,614
$ 11,724
$ 17,594
$ 11,890
$ 17,462
$ 19,220
$ 13,293
$ 16,238
$ 14,084
$ 10,102
$ 9,231
$ 8,668
$ 18,014
$ 13,063
$ 14,446
$ 10,884
$ 9,150
$ 10,474
$ 18,014
$ 13,063
$ 14,446
$ 10,884
$ 9,150
$ 10,474
$ 11,292
$ 9,489
$ 16,201
$ 14,429
$ 8,831
$ 30,054
$ 12,126
$ 15,485
$ 16,177
$ 15,065
$ 13,599
$ 12,201
$ 16,123
$ 9,581
$ 19,847
$ 16,001
$ 17,264
$ 13,668
$ 15,893
$ 12,731
$ 42,179
$ 26,477
$ 12,860
$ 26,855
$ 21,472
$ 17,522
$ 11,834
$ 11,691
$ 14,347
$ 10,082
$ 14,319
$ 11,226
$ 13,959
$ 10,489
$ 7,972
$ 12,611
$ 12,129
$ 26,333
$ 11,190
$ 10,220
$ 11,765
$ 11,185
$ 12,276
$ 24,689
$ 17,710
$ 11,049
$ 11,549
$ 13,640
$ 15,439
$ 13,299
$ 18,503
$ 52,907
$ 14,079
$ 10,459
$ 21,252
$ 12,267
$ 11,508
$ 12,485
$ 9,489
$ 16,201
$ 14,429
$ 8,831
$ 30,054
$ 12,126
$ 15,485
$ 16,177
$ 15,065
$ 13,599
$ 12,201
$ 16,123
$ 9,581
$ 19,847
$ 16,001
$ 17,264
$ 13,668
$ 15,893
$ 12,731
$ 42,179
$ 26,477
$ 12,860
$ 26,855
$ 21,472
$ 17,522
$ 11,834
$ 11,691
$ 14,347
$ 10,082
$ 14,319
$ 11,226
$ 13,959
$ 10,489
$ 7,972
$ 12,611
$ 12,129
$ 26,333
$ 11,190
$ 10,220
$ 11,765
$ 11,185
$ 12,276
$ 24,689
$ 17,710
$ 11,049
$ 11,549
$ 13,640
$ 15,439
$ 13,299
$ 18,503
$ 52,907
$ 14,079
$ 10,459
$ 21,252
$ 12,267
$ 11,508
$ 12,485
$ 12,119
$ 9,788
$ 8,440
$ 9,000
$ 15,789
$ 12,279
$ 9,872
$ 8,858
$ 11,166
$ 18,407
$ 9,272
$ 9,731
$ 9,788
$ 8,440
$ 9,000
$ 15,789
$ 12,279
$ 9,872
$ 8,858
$ 11,166
$ 18,407
$ 9,272
$ 9,731
$ 11,331
$ 16,710
$ 11,890
$ 16,710
$ 11,890
| TX state average: $11,567 |
| Sterling City ISD 201 students $10.6 million total exp. all funds $10.7 mil equity transfers |
| Prosper ISD 3,115 students Total expenditures all funds $134.99 million total exp. all funds $1.3 million equity transfers |
Speaker of the House
Joe Straus (District 121)
Joe Straus (District 121)
$ 10,811
$ 15,116
$ 15,133
$ 12,867
$ 9,965
$ 15,116
$ 15,133
$ 12,867
$ 9,965
| More about Prosper ISD |
| 12 - James White Apple Springs ISD Centerville ISD Central ISD Chester ISD Cleveland ISD Coldspring-Oakhurst CISD Colmesneil ISD Diboll ISD Groveton ISD Hudson ISD Huntington ISD Kennard ISD Lufkin ISD Shepherd ISD Spurger ISD Trinity ISD Warren ISD Wells ISD Willis ISD Woodville ISD Zavalla ISD |
| Joe Straus |
| Terrence Stutz (PHOTO-- P. Wolcott) |
| Rob Eissler |
| Ken Paxton |
| 2008-09 $11,567 2007-08 $11,024 2006-07 $10,162 2005-06 $ 9,629 2004-05 $ 9,269 2003-04 $ 8,838 |
TEXAS PUBLIC
SCHOOL SPENDING
SCHOOL SPENDING
actual expenditures, all funds
| Robert Scott |
| Who better to help Joe Straus find his way back to the conservative roots that he and House Education Committee chair Rob Eissler assured us he had last month when he was campaigning for reelection as House Speaker than the 15 courageous state representatives who stuck their necks out in support of Ken Paxton as their new speaker? Here's a list of the schools in the 15's House districts -- plus Joe Straus's and Rob Eissler's; note that the majority of Joe's and Rob's public schools spent more per student than the $11,567 state average. Note also that one of Ken Paxton's districts spent $43,336 -- almost 4 times the state average: |
Fortunately, Texans are not dependent on NEA forecasts to tell
us about our school spending. Not only is education spending
a big priority in the Lone Star state, but thanks to
Commissioner of Education Robert Scott, Texans have the
most detailed current school spending statistics of any
state in the U.S. -- for budget forecasts and actual spending
alike. (To find your district's stats, use the alpha drop-down
here; look for all funds and total expenditures at the far right.)
Figuring out public school spending can be tricky and it's
understandable that no less a veteran education luminary than
Dallas Morning News reporter Terrence Stutz appears to have
fallen into the trap of taking a report at face value without
questioning the underlying data.
The Mo' Money Mantra
Our Texas Lege is once again in session and once again our
education lobby is insisting it needs more money.
us about our school spending. Not only is education spending
a big priority in the Lone Star state, but thanks to
Commissioner of Education Robert Scott, Texans have the
most detailed current school spending statistics of any
state in the U.S. -- for budget forecasts and actual spending
alike. (To find your district's stats, use the alpha drop-down
here; look for all funds and total expenditures at the far right.)
Figuring out public school spending can be tricky and it's
understandable that no less a veteran education luminary than
Dallas Morning News reporter Terrence Stutz appears to have
fallen into the trap of taking a report at face value without
questioning the underlying data.
The Mo' Money Mantra
Our Texas Lege is once again in session and once again our
education lobby is insisting it needs more money.
Alamo Heights ISD
Comal ISD
Judson ISD
North East ISD
San Antonio ISD
Comal ISD
Judson ISD
North East ISD
San Antonio ISD
Education Committee Chair
Rob Eissler (District 15)
Rob Eissler (District 15)
Conroe ISD
Magnolia ISD
Montgomery ISD
New Caney ISD
Tomball ISD
Magnolia ISD
Montgomery ISD
New Caney ISD
Tomball ISD
$ 11,037
$ 9,481
$ 18,103
$ 13,157
$ 15,096
$ 9,481
$ 18,103
$ 13,157
$ 15,096
| Prosper ISD's bond package: $750 million bond package... funds used for: upgrades to the existing football stadium, a new elementary school, a new middle school, upgrades to the two previously existing elementary schools, a new transportation facility, a new Agriculture/Small Animal Facility, and a brand-new (opened 2009-2010 school year) 120 Million Dollar, State-Of-The-Art High School. (SOURCE--Wikipedia) |
- TEA: Exemplary
- UIL: 3A
- 3,115 students
- $43,336 per student
- $134.99 million total exp. all funds
- $1.3 million equity transfers
- New high school: $120 million...
one of Texas' "Top 10" projects
for 2008
| Prosper HS (PHOTO--PBK Architects) |
principal and interest. In layman's terms, NEA does not
include the cost of bond elections or the cost of building
schools or buying vehicles such as buses.
This would be like your family drawing up a budget without
including the cost of your mortgage. How realistic or accurate
would that be? Further, by not including school construction
include the cost of bond elections or the cost of building
schools or buying vehicles such as buses.
This would be like your family drawing up a budget without
including the cost of your mortgage. How realistic or accurate
would that be? Further, by not including school construction
| Wendy Davis |
| Wendy Davis (SD # 10) |
Aledo ISD
Arlington ISD
Birdville ISD
Burleson ISD
Carroll ISD
Castleberry ISD
Crowley ISD
Eagle MtSaginaw ISD
Everman ISD
Fort Worth ISD
Godley ISD
Grapevine-Colleyville ISD
Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD
Keller ISD
Kennedale ISD
Lake Worth ISD
Mansfield ISD
White Settlement ISD
Arlington ISD
Birdville ISD
Burleson ISD
Carroll ISD
Castleberry ISD
Crowley ISD
Eagle MtSaginaw ISD
Everman ISD
Fort Worth ISD
Godley ISD
Grapevine-Colleyville ISD
Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD
Keller ISD
Kennedale ISD
Lake Worth ISD
Mansfield ISD
White Settlement ISD
$ 15,773
$ 8,668
$ 12,471
$ 18,014
$ 11,790
$ 8,908
$ 13,063
$ 14,527
$ 14,446
$ 10,884
$ 25,709
$ 11,255
$ 9,013
$ 11,424
$ 9,150
$ 13,056
$ 10,474
$ 9,496
$ 8,668
$ 12,471
$ 18,014
$ 11,790
$ 8,908
$ 13,063
$ 14,527
$ 14,446
$ 10,884
$ 25,709
$ 11,255
$ 9,013
$ 11,424
$ 9,150
$ 13,056
$ 10,474
$ 9,496
| Is Fort Worth's fashionable state senator spending too much time modeling for newspapers and not enough time doing her homework for her elected position? |
Q: Why are American taxpayers
funding the Muslimization of America
. . . one charter school at a time?
A: The Turkish Muslims have figured
out how to game our system.
funding the Muslimization of America
. . . one charter school at a time?
A: The Turkish Muslims have figured
out how to game our system.
Who is Fethullah Gulen
and will the real Mr.
Gulen please stand up ?
and will the real Mr.
Gulen please stand up ?
Is he a friendly, smiling
grandfather in a non-
threatening light-colored
Western suit?
grandfather in a non-
threatening light-colored
Western suit?
Or is he a stern Muslim
cleric in religious robes
holding a red Koran?
cleric in religious robes
holding a red Koran?
This photo of SR 85's
passage -- breaking
news in Turkey -- has
only appeared in the
US on private websites,
mine and others.
passage -- breaking
news in Turkey -- has
only appeared in the
US on private websites,
mine and others.
| Page 1, Austin American- Statesman style section 2 weeks after SR 85 passed; 3 weeks later still no mention at AAS. |
