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Saturday, 16 July 2011

Abramson Science and Technology Charter School

Posted on 13:29 by Unknown
“State board of education votes to revoke Abramson's charter.” The Times-Picayune, 8/3/2011
The state board of education voted to revoke its contract with Abramson Science and Technology Charter School in eastern New Orleans on Wednesday, a step that could mean new management for the school and a potential legal battle with the nonprofit group that has run the campus until now.

The Pelican Educational Foundation, which founded the charter school in 2007, lost its right to operate the school by a vote of six to one at the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, or BESE...

...BESE decided to vote with the recommendation of acting State Superintendent Ollie Tyler, who told the board that early findings of a state investigation launched last month showed "a threat to the safety, health and welfare of students at Abramson."
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The exhibits from the preliminary investigation are @ http://www.louisianaschools.net/lde/uploads/18613.pdf

Sample excerpt from Exhibit 5, pg. 45 of pdf
False College Admittances:

"Near the end of the year many students who had not previously been accepted into any college began announcing they had been accepted into North American College. Surprisingly, students who were failing their English and Math classes and who would not graduate from Abramson on time were still being accepted to North American College. The principal used these acceptances as proof that Abramson was successful. The school that accepted these seniors who did not graduate from high school, North American College, is where Mr. Dokmen will be working this fall."

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"Records show glaring faults at school with ties to Turkish charter network.” Times-Picayune (LA) 7/15/2011 
Inci Akpinar, the vice president of a company called Atlas Texas Construction & Trading, sat down with an official from the Louisiana Department of Education a little more than a year ago and made him an offer.

..."I have twenty-five thousand dollars to fix this problem: twenty thousand for you and five for me."

At the time, Dunbar was investigating numerous complaints against Abramson Science & Technology Charter School in eastern New Orleans...

Dunbar -- having declined to take money from Akpinar -- recommended more than a year ago that the state board of education yank Abramson's charter...

But after questioning by the The Times-Picayune, acting State Superintendent of Education Ollie Tyler late Friday wrote to the state board asking it to prevent the school from opening in the fall, citing problems discovered during the original investigation and a new information about an incident between two young students that was possibly sexual in nature...

That an executive from Atlas Texas, a Houston-based contractor, would speak on the school's behalf points to the somewhat opaque connections that link Abramson with other schools and businesses founded by Turkish expatriates. Atlas has won numerous contracts in the past from a Texas-based school operator called the Cosmos Foundation...

Similar allegations have cropped up in other states where the Cosmos Foundation operates. The group runs a charter network called the Harmony Schools in Texas, where they've encountered unfounded accusations that they somehow promote Islamic extremism, largely because of an interest by some of the group's leaders in the movement begun by a Turkish religious scholar named Fethullah Gulen.

Both Cosmos and Pelican have disavowed any official religious links, though Abramson teachers on a school-sponsored trip to Turkey received pamphlets on the Gulen movement...

In an email dated Feb. 2, 2010, and signed by [four teachers] to head of the state's charter office: "Though we are fully aware of the significant amount of autonomy given to charter schools, we are now concerned that this autonomy is being abused to the point that students are being forced to engage in unethical acts."

They also reported a "general feeling of fear" among the school's staff because of what appeared to be retaliation against teachers, parents and students who had spoken up about the school's practices in the past...

But the state investigation appeared to back up much of what the teachers had written in their note...

...several students confirmed they had done little or none of the work that went into their science projects...

...[students] described practice on items that were very close to the items on the test."...

The state audit also turned up a significant lack of resources for special-needs students...

There were also complaints from teachers and students about the difficulty of communicating with some of the foreign staff...

Still, Dunbar, the state's academic advisor for charter schools, described a series of bizarre encounters as he and others carried out the audit that suggest a network of associations at Abramson extending beyond Louisiana...

Dunbar concluded in the same memo that the state board of education should revoke school's the charter...

Ultimately, the state decided to renew Abramson's charter for one year, contingent on the school carrying out a detailed corrective action plan...
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“Abramson Charter in eastern New Orleans shut down amid TP investigation into startlingmisconduct.” Times-Picayune (LA) 7/15/2011
The state's sudden shutdown of Abramson Science and Technology Charter School over revelations of a potential bribery attempt and other incidents came in part because of inquiries made by The Times-Picayune over the past few weeks.

Penny Dastugue, president of the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, wrote to the head of the nonprofit that runs Abramson on Friday evening to say the board will close the school until the state can complete an investigation. The move came just a few hours after acting State Superintendent Ollie Tyler contacted board members to recommend that they shutter the school in eastern New Orleans while the state looks into the allegations...

Both incidents have come to light as a result of interviews and public information requests made by newspaper.

Several board members expressed alarm on Friday that information about the state's audit last year did not come before BESE ahead of a vote the board took last summer to renew Abramson's charter. The state education department recommended that BESE give the school a one-year renewal with a "corrective action plan" to address deficiencies in special education services. But the board had not seen [a] memo about the offer of money. And they hadn't seen records that provide accounts of classrooms going unstaffed for weeks at a time and potential cheating in science fair competitions...

[BESE member Louella Givens] and Linda Johnson, a BESE member from Plaquemine, also traveled to Turkey this spring at the invitation of the Pelican Foundation before the full findings of the state audit came to light.

Tevfik Eski, Pelican's CEO, denied inviting BESE members on the trip. But a copy of the invitation obtained by The Times-Picayune shows that it was signed by Eski...

Johnson said that she paid for her own flight but that some of her hotel expenses were picked up by the Texas Turkish American Chamber of Commerce...
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
  • Details about active and attempted Gulen charter schools in Louisiana.
  • News story about Harmony Public Schools, AKA Harmony Science Academy schools / CosmosFoundation. 
  • Information about Gulen charter schools’ H1B visa applications.
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Gulen charter schools in Louisiana

Posted on 13:10 by Unknown

STATE
# ACTIVE
# PENDING
# INACTIVE*
TOTAL
LA
1
0
7
8

* Denied, withdrawn, closed, or unknown status

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TOTAL ENROLLMENT IN 2010-2011 = 1038 STUDENTS
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SCHOOLS
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KENILWORTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CHARTER SCHOOL
Status
ACTIVE, opened 2008-2009; Kenilworth Middle School conversion
Management
Pelican Educational Foundation, Inc.
Authorizer
Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (under the Recovery School District)
Location/District
7600 Boone Drive, Baton Rouge / East Baton Rouge Parish School System
Website
http://www.kenilworthst.org/
Enrollment
Grades 6-8; 2010-11 enrollment = 447
Site leader
Hasan Sazci
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ABRAMSON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CHARTER SCHOOL
Status
CHARTER REVOKED in August 2011; operations transferred to non-Pelican Educational Foundation management; originally opened 2007-2008.
Management
Pelican Educational Foundation, Inc.
Authorizer
Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (under the Recovery School District)
Location/District
5552 Read Blvd., New Orleans / New Orleans Public Schools
Website
http://www.abramsonst.org/
Enrollment
Grades K-12; 2010-11 enrollment = 591
Notes
Cuneyt Dokmen (principal in February 2011); Originally called Pelican Math & Science School; Learn more about Abramson Science and Technology School scandal HERE.
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LINEAR MIDDLE SCHOOL CONVERSION
Status
INACTIVE: Proposal submitted to the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education in January 2009.
Management
Pelican Educational Foundation, Inc.
Location
Shreveport
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BANKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CONVERSION
Status
INACTIVE: Proposal submitted to the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education in January 2009.
Management
Pelican Educational Foundation, Inc.
Location
Baton Rouge
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CRESTWORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL CONVERSION
Status
INACTIVE: Proposal submitted to the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education in January 2009.
Management
Pelican Educational Foundation, Inc.
Location
Baton Rouge
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KENILWORTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL EXPANSION
Status
INACTIVE: The National Association of Charter School Authorizers’ recommended for denial of the application to the State Authorized School Oversight Committee of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary in December 2010.
Management
Pelican Educational Foundation, Inc.
Authorizer
Louisiana Department of Education
Notes
This was a proposed expansion of a middle school in Baton Rouge (Kenilworth Science & Technology Charter School)
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PELICAN EXCELLENCE ORLEANS K-12
Status
INACTIVE: The National Association of Charter School Authorizers’ recommended for denial of the application to the State Authorized School Oversight Committee of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary in December 2010.
Management
Pelican Educational Foundation, Inc.
Authorizer
Louisiana Department of Education
Location
This school was proposed for New Orleans.
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PELICAN EXCELLENCE ACADEMY
Status
UNKNOWN: Application submitted in February 2010.
Management
Pelican Educational Foundation, Inc.
Authorizer
Jefferson Parish School Board
Location
This school was proposed for Metairie.
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MANAGEMENT
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PELICAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Federal Tax ID
EIN 203801713
Website
http://pelicanfoundation.org/
History
Started by Tevfik Kosar, an assistant professor of Computer Science at LSU. “The school was developed in 2006 as the brainchild of University math, science and technology professors who felt the need to contribute more to elementary education.”
Individuals involved
Names appearing on IRS Form 990s (2005 to 2009) & website: Abdullah Zorba, Adem Ozel, Amanniyaz Niyazmuradov (AKA Aman Niyaz), Bicer Hasan, Cuneyt Dokemen, Cynthia Bryant, Elif Ulupinar, Eugene Kennedy, Hasan Sazci, Karen Fontenot, Mehmet F. Cihan, Mustafa Guvercin, Nihat Bayhan, Orhan Kizilkaya, Richard Webb, Tevfik Kosar, and Yunus Bicici.
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 “PARTNER ORGANIZATION”
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COSMOS FOUNDATION / HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Federal Tax ID
EIN 76-0615245
Website
http://www.cosmostx.org/
Services
Cosmos gets 5% of Pelican's annual state funding because of their "Support Service Agreement."
Individuals involved
Names appearing on IRS Form 990s (2002 to 2009): Ali Tekin, Bilal Akin, Burhanettin Kuruscu, Cengizhan Keskin, Cocksun Cetinkaya, Ellen A. MacDonald, Fatih Yigit, Gokturk Tunc, Ibrahim Sel, Iker Gure, Ismet S. Isik, Kadir Almus, Kudbettin Aksoy, Levent Bulut, Lynn Mitchell, Mehmet Okumus, Mustafa Atik, Mustafa Guvercin, Mustafa Ozen, Nihat Guvercin, Oner Ulvi Celepicikay, Ozgur Ozer, Selahattin Aydin, Soner Tarim, Tevik Eski, Umit Pecin, Yetkin Yildirim
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
  • Learn more about the Cosmos Foundation / Harmony Public Schools HERE and HERE and HERE.
  • Form 990s for Pelican Educational Foundation reveal that Prestige Commercial Cleaning & Construction was paid $116,766 for custodial services in 2008 and $532,717 for cleaning services in 2009 (two year total = $649,483). Names associated with that business are Ali Tuncer and Ufuk Tuncer.
  • Also, the Cosmos Foundation was paid $238,595 in 2008 and $289,796 in 2009 for management consulting and teacher training (two year total = $528,391).
  • Karen Fontenot, vice president of Pelican Educational Foundation, stated at a dinner reception during a Gulen conference in Amsterdam (October 2010), “I’m not a Muslim and I’m not a Turk but I believe that I am a member of the Hizmet Movement…I’m on the advisory board of the schools, the Gulen schools in Louisiana.”
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Thursday, 14 July 2011

Choice Scholarship Pilot Program

Posted on 12:40 by Unknown

“Judge halts Dougco voucher pilot.” Education News Colorado, 08/13/2011
A Denver judge has granted a motion to halt the Douglas County voucher pilot pending further court action, a ruling that could send hundreds of students back to district schools.

In a 68-page ruling issued late Friday afternoon, District Court Judge Michael Martinez finds merit in six of eight legal challenges raised by attorneys representing a handful of Dougco parents and groups including the American Civil Liberties Union.

“This court is not prepared to mandate that Colorado taxpayers fund private religious education,” the judge wrote, noting the voucher plan “violates both financial and religious provisions” of the Colorado Constitution...

Some of the students already have started classes at their private schools and about $300,000 in voucher payments have gone out, Barber said. It was not immediately clear whether the judge’s ruling means the private schools will have to return those dollars.

If so, some private school leaders have lamented the impact on their schools. Terry Martin, academic director of Woodlands Academy, said she may have to lay off teachers. Kurt Unruh, head of Valor Christian School, said in an affidavit filed in court last week that as many as 40 students would not be able to attend without vouchers.

So Valor, which charges $13,950 in annual tuition, “stands to lose $558,000 in annual revenue, which would be a substantial financial hardship,” he said...

Douglas County school board members voted 7-0 on March 15 to launch the pilot, the first serious effort in Colorado to create a voucher plan since the Colorado Supreme Court struck down a 2003 effort by state lawmakers.

The state’s highest court did not address religion in its ruling, deciding the 2003 plan was unconstitutional because it stripped locally elected school boards of their constitutional control over instruction.

But Martinez tackles religion head-on in his decision, finding a clear violation of the constitutional prohibition against using public money “in aid of any church” or “for any sectarian purpose.” This provision is known as the Blaine amendment.

At least 16 of the 21 private schools participating in the voucher plan are religious and the pilot places no limits on the schools’ use of public money to support or promote religion.

“In fact, because of the interplay between the participating private school partners’ curriculum and religious teachings, any funding of the private schools, even for the purpose of providing education, would further the sectarian purpose of religious indoctrination,” the judge wrote...

Dougco’s voucher pilot has drawn national attention, in part because it involves an affluent district with high-performing schools. Most voucher programs nationally target students with special needs or those from low-income families...
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"Douglas County School District to create faux charter school.” 9News (CO), 7/13/11
CASTLE ROCK - There will be no classrooms full of students. There will be no staff of teachers. The sign outside indicates that the location is the school district headquarters. Yet, this will be the location of Douglas County's newest charter school.

"We had to find a way to do this," Randy Barber, media and events director for the Douglas County School District, said.

The district is trying to establish the first widespread school voucher system in Colorado history. Dubbed the Choice Scholarship Pilot Program, 500 students have been selected to receive 75 percent of their per-pupil funding to pay for private school tuition. The remaining 25 percent will be kept by the district.

Groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado and Taxpayers for Public Education have sued Douglas County. Out of the 19 private schools eligible to receive students, 14 of them are religious schools. The lawsuits allege diverting public money to religious schools is against Colorado law...

Barber says the charter school will be used as a mechanism to administer the voucher program...

The students in the Choice Scholarship Program will technically be enrolled in this charter school even though they will really be attending classes at the private school of their choice...

"They are setting up a sham charter school, which is a public school, and they are using this sham charter as a flow through of funds from the state to the private schools," Kleinkopf said.

Barber says the Choice Scholarship Program will not provide money directly to the private schools which, he says, makes their program different - and legal.

"If the money is given to a parent, and then they make the choice, that money can go to any private school including those that are religious," Barber said...

"We want to be a model for other school districts throughout the country, not just here in Colorado," Barber said...
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