Bush screwed up the educational system, so they can ‘fix’ it to their liking.

“Tim King and Norm Donohoe, who ran a chain of taxpayer-funded charter schools across small-town Oregon from their headquarters in Clackamas, scammed the state out of $17 million and must repay that plus $2.7 million more, the state said in a court filing this week.

The legal claim, brought Thursday by the Oregon Department of Justice in Marion County Circuit Court, accuses the pair of racketeering, money laundering and other fraud from 2007 to 2010.

King and Donohoe, who were the director and president, respectively, of a nonprofit they named EdChoices, submitted false, incomplete and misleading records about how many students were enrolled in the schools and how they were spending the state’s money, state prosecutors say in the complaint.”
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Harmony Science Academy, TX, will receive almost 30 million dollars in a ‘race to the top’ competition….

Largest charter network in U.S.: Schools tied to Turkey

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), Illinois, Tennessee, Pennsylvania (also here), Indiana, Oklahoma (and here), Texas (also here), Arkansas, Louisiana (also here), New Jersey, Georgia, and North Carolina. It was also reported that the FBI and the Departments of Labor and Education are investigating practices at these schools.

…”The Gulen Movement originated in Turkey in the late 1960s and has become increasingly powerful. Its members are followers of Fethullah Gulen (b. 1941) a self-exiled Turkish preacher who has been living on a secluded compound in rural Pennsylvania since 1998. Members call themselves hizmet, meaning “volunteer services” movement. The GM conducts four primary activities around the world: a media empire, business organizations, an enormous number of Turkish culture-promoting and interfaith dialog organizations, and a network of schools in over 100 countries, a large portion of which are U.S. charter schools.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the GM began to establish schools outside of Turkey, first in the newly established republics of Central Asia and then beyond. One expert noted that the “…worldwide extent of Fethullah Gulen’s educational network testifies to the internationalist, even imperialist, nature of the movement.” Last year an analyst viewed the raison d’être for the schools “spreading across the globe” in this way: “Students will learn how to speak Turkish, the national anthem, how to be the ‘right kind of Muslim’, etc. In essence, it buys (the GM) loyalty.”

We really need to start paying attention here, and that does NOT mean listening to Glenn Beck/limbaugh or NPR (national propaganda radio)…they are looting our nation, lying about everything while we amuse ourselves to death.

In October we learned about a failed charter school in Orlando which paid their principal $824,000 while only allowing $366,000 on teacher salaries and instruction in the 2010-2011 school year.

The principal in question not only received a $519,000 severance check, but she took home her $305,000 annual salary for a grand total of $824,000 during the 2010-2011 school year. The Orlando Sentinel also reported last week the school only spent $366,000 on teacher salaries and instruction during that school year. Nothing can justify that imbalance, especially for the leader of a charter that failed.

..”Last week the Miami Herald reported that Charter Schools USA handed out in excess of $205,000 in contributions to political organizations and candidates for this election, three times the amount the Fort Lauderdale-based company spent two years ago.

I don’t know how or why teachers became enemy number one in America. I do know that under Fascism, there is distain for intellectuals for obvious reasons. Intellectuals are the people that might expose lies and corruption and get in the way of the Fascist’s efforts.

For instance, Teachers who might inform students of our history, of the protections of our Constitution are a threat, like for instance, telling us of our freedom from illegal spying.

Our entire Congress, both Dems and Republicans just passed Bush’s illegal FISA spying act again. Our Constitution protects us from government spying, so the idea they passed a law that allows spying, proves they just violated the law of our land and can be removed from office by public pressure.

Congress takes an oath to protect and preserve our Constitution. The only way that spying can be made legal is by amendment to the Constitution. They passed a ‘law’ that violates our Constitution and every Congress member that voted for this can be thrown out of office. If people knew this, tar and feathers would be selling like hot cakes. This is why our government is slowly dismantling the educational system.

Now they have set up an educational system where the students can slack off as much as they want, then blame the teacher. Doesn’t this set up a system where the kids can now blackmail the teacher and make them lose their jobs due to the student’s lack of doing their own work? How is that the teacher’s fault if the kid doesn’t pay attention or turn in their homework? Shouldn’t the parent be fired? How about Saturday School for kids who don’t do their work? Not getting how it is the teacher’s fault, or how any thinking human being can blame teachers for the current state of education or the general accepted idiocy of the nation.

How is it possible Bush just created this program to fix the schools, schools are doing poorly and now the teachers get the blame?

Why didn’t Bush’s program work? Why not blame him?

And private schools are the answer? Paying private land owners rent does not save money unless you hire Bill Gates Teach For America ‘Teachers’ who only have 6 weeks training and use an ear piece like coaches use in the NFL to coach the new teachers. This is exactly what they are doing now, I am not making it up. Google Teach for America.

What kind of education do you think you will get when corporations get involved, skimming off rent, CEO salaries and consulting fees instead of paying teachers? You will get new CEO’s scamming all the education money instead of public administrators sitting on arse taking all the money, but either way the higher ups will be taking all the $$ and teachers and students will still get the shaft.