- Chart showing Cosmos board's Turkish
education & employment - Just before becoming Cosmos President
Ali Yavuz Zeybek was VP of Suleyman
Demeril University (small & new) when
Mr. Demeril received a Harmony award
from a Gulenist group. Where is Ali
now? In 2007 Ali was talking about
the Gulen Movement in Canada.
Q: Guess who owns the house Ali gave
as his business address in 2000? A:
Here. - More about the Harmony concept: first
Mr. Gulen's Harmony awards, then Texas
Harmony charter schools. - Despite scant info supplied to TEA, we
found Cosmos VP Ellen A. MacDonald;
her business is not in good standing
with TX Comptroller - Cosmos Treasurer Mustafa Ata Atik is
a Baylor MD who bought 152 Italian
mattresses for his small grocery store;
where'd he put them? - Cosmos superintendent Soner Tarim also
has a side business; like Ellen's, Soner's
is not in good standing with the
Comptroller either. - And Soner Tarim has also not answered
these questions--why?
- April overview here.
- Texas-based Cosmos Foundation, Inc.
has hired Karen Hughes to do PR for
SB 597 & HB1437 (TX), their construction
loan bills. - More about Karen, her firm & Bhopal
- Queries Karen & BM haven't yet
asnwered. - Cosmos IRS financials (2007)
- $2 million grant to Cosmos from Arne
Duncan & USDOE
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Turkish taxpayer- funded
charter schools in the US?
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charter schools in the US?
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Q: Why did 3 conservative Texas state
senators author a resolution (SR 85)
honoring Fethullah Gulen? A: It
appears a (mostly) free trip to Turkey was
involved.
Q: Wasn't George Bush president in
2004 & why did the US gov't work with
George Soros on this? "The Human
Rights Education Associates opened its
offices in Morocco in 2004 with funds
provided by both the State Department and
the Open Society Institute."
senators author a resolution (SR 85)
honoring Fethullah Gulen? A: It
appears a (mostly) free trip to Turkey was
involved.
Q: Wasn't George Bush president in
2004 & why did the US gov't work with
George Soros on this? "The Human
Rights Education Associates opened its
offices in Morocco in 2004 with funds
provided by both the State Department and
the Open Society Institute."
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| JOHN CORNYN & ROBIN HOOD |
When John wrote the
opinion codifying the
Texas school finance
scheme we know as
Robin Hood, he forgot to
include any accountability
provisions; 22 years later,
just how are those
districts spending our
money? See for yourself
here.; look for the
Edgewood ISD employee
fitness center.
opinion codifying the
Texas school finance
scheme we know as
Robin Hood, he forgot to
include any accountability
provisions; 22 years later,
just how are those
districts spending our
money? See for yourself
here.; look for the
Edgewood ISD employee
fitness center.
(last updated July 2011)
Questions about Cosmos officials:
More from Fethullah Gulen's website:
http://en.fgulen.com/about-fethullah-gulen/d
ialogue-and-tolerance-activities/1021-once
-upon-a-time.html
http://en.fgulen.com/about-fethullah-gulen/d
ialogue-and-tolerance-activities/1021-once
-upon-a-time.html
- Is www.fgulen.com Fethullah
Gulen's official website?
New research here.
FATHER KNOWS BEST?
Paid professional Microsoft
lobbyist Thomas Ratliff (above)
ran for & won a seat on the State
Board of Education (TX) in Texas
-- even though the long-time
prohibition against paid
lobbyists' occupying SBOE seats
was included by Thomas Ratliff's
dad Bill Ratliff in his massive
1995 rewrite of the Texas
Education Code. (View larger
here.) Email the OAG.
Paid professional Microsoft
lobbyist Thomas Ratliff (above)
ran for & won a seat on the State
Board of Education (TX) in Texas
-- even though the long-time
prohibition against paid
lobbyists' occupying SBOE seats
was included by Thomas Ratliff's
dad Bill Ratliff in his massive
1995 rewrite of the Texas
Education Code. (View larger
here.) Email the OAG.
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| The curious case of Microsoft lobbyist Thomas Ratliff & the Texas SBOE |
Transcript of Microsoft lobbyist/
SBOE member Thomas Ratliff
before Senate Education
Committee on Mar. 29, 2011 --
with Plano ISD superintendent
Doug Otto's response.
SBOE member Thomas Ratliff
before Senate Education
Committee on Mar. 29, 2011 --
with Plano ISD superintendent
Doug Otto's response.
| PHOTOS OF COSMOS FOUNDATION OFFICIALS AT TEXAS CAPITOL (May 11, 2011) |
| Here .... |
June 6, 2011 - New York Times article
on Cosmos Foundation's Texas charter
operation, the 34 Harmony charter
schools, follows the money on the
business and construction end. Please
read. Yes, I was interviewed-- on the
condition my input was off the record.
on Cosmos Foundation's Texas charter
operation, the 34 Harmony charter
schools, follows the money on the
business and construction end. Please
read. Yes, I was interviewed-- on the
condition my input was off the record.
June 8, 2011: Are Turk charter
operators paying to play at our Texas
Lege? Follow $15,000 from the Texas
Charter School Ass'n to the TCSA
lobbyists' PAC to the Senate Education
Committee members who just voted
charter bill SB 31 -- the 5th attempt in 4
months -- out of committee (8 - 0, 1
'absent'). The charter legislation in
question would allow Cosmos to move
ahead with their proposed 6-state
expansion.
operators paying to play at our Texas
Lege? Follow $15,000 from the Texas
Charter School Ass'n to the TCSA
lobbyists' PAC to the Senate Education
Committee members who just voted
charter bill SB 31 -- the 5th attempt in 4
months -- out of committee (8 - 0, 1
'absent'). The charter legislation in
question would allow Cosmos to move
ahead with their proposed 6-state
expansion.
June 27, 2011: 6 tries in 4 months by
charter lobbyists to pass PSF guarantee
bills in TX. Pay to play?
June 19, 2011: Austin American-
Statesman publishes Some lawmakers
have second thoughts about Turkey
trips story on front page, above the fold.
Yes, they name names.
June 18, 2011: Pay to play by TCSA at
Texas Lege? Follow the money.
charter lobbyists to pass PSF guarantee
bills in TX. Pay to play?
June 19, 2011: Austin American-
Statesman publishes Some lawmakers
have second thoughts about Turkey
trips story on front page, above the fold.
Yes, they name names.
June 18, 2011: Pay to play by TCSA at
Texas Lege? Follow the money.
July 4, 2011: Turkish-run Harmony
charter's Muslim Student Ass'n film, "A
Changed Muslim" wins a spot in the Muslim
Interscholastic Tournament July 8-10 in
Georgia. View it here.
charter's Muslim Student Ass'n film, "A
Changed Muslim" wins a spot in the Muslim
Interscholastic Tournament July 8-10 in
Georgia. View it here.
Q: What's the
Common Cartridge?
A: Think of it as a giant file
cabinet for holding every
known factoid about students
including the most personal
and subjective data the
schools collect; the Common
Cartridge links all users
including America's 13,900
local school districts with
governmental entities of all
ilk around the world. Think of
the possibilities.
Q: What are the
Common Core
Standards?
A: The feds' tool for
nationalizing the nation's
13,900 locally run school
districts into 70, the Common
Core Standards are another
step in the dumbing down of
America via a dumbed-down
curriculum containing many
hidden social engineering
devices.
Common Cartridge?
A: Think of it as a giant file
cabinet for holding every
known factoid about students
including the most personal
and subjective data the
schools collect; the Common
Cartridge links all users
including America's 13,900
local school districts with
governmental entities of all
ilk around the world. Think of
the possibilities.
Q: What are the
Common Core
Standards?
A: The feds' tool for
nationalizing the nation's
13,900 locally run school
districts into 70, the Common
Core Standards are another
step in the dumbing down of
America via a dumbed-down
curriculum containing many
hidden social engineering
devices.
| NEWSLETTERS July 13, 2011 "A Changed Muslim" (Turkish charter student video), more. |
| NEW |
Folwell Dunbar, only US public
education Turkish charter whistle-
blower, has been fired by La. DOE -- a
week after the New Orleans Times
Picayune publishes Dunbar's 2010 reports
including allegation of bribe by Atlas (TX)
VP. As of July 31, 2011, acting La. state
supe Ollie Tyler still has offered no
specific reasons for firing Dunbar & his
former boss, Jacob Landry. KNOWN
FACT: At least 2 La. state board of ed
members have accepted free Turkey trips.
education Turkish charter whistle-
blower, has been fired by La. DOE -- a
week after the New Orleans Times
Picayune publishes Dunbar's 2010 reports
including allegation of bribe by Atlas (TX)
VP. As of July 31, 2011, acting La. state
supe Ollie Tyler still has offered no
specific reasons for firing Dunbar & his
former boss, Jacob Landry. KNOWN
FACT: At least 2 La. state board of ed
members have accepted free Turkey trips.
EXCLUSIVE!
New Fethullah
Gulen YouTube
translation ... about
'hidden things.'...
mentions 'infiltrating'
and 'No one has the
right to question me.'
New Fethullah
Gulen YouTube
translation ... about
'hidden things.'...
mentions 'infiltrating'
and 'No one has the
right to question me.'
Turkish charter
schools share a
common website
template from state
to state. To view this
graphic larger, in
horizontal format,
please scroll down to
July 19, 2011 here.
schools share a
common website
template from state
to state. To view this
graphic larger, in
horizontal format,
please scroll down to
July 19, 2011 here.
Turkish charter
operators spent
almost $6 million
in tax dollars on travel
in 3 years? For what?
Getting hundreds of
H1-B visa holding
Turkish teachers over
here, the ones who
can't speak English &
have no education
background? View
their IRS info here.
operators spent
almost $6 million
in tax dollars on travel
in 3 years? For what?
Getting hundreds of
H1-B visa holding
Turkish teachers over
here, the ones who
can't speak English &
have no education
background? View
their IRS info here.