MAGNOLIA SCIENCE ACADEMY latest 990 tax return #gulen #charterschoolfraud #turkishcharterschools

 BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF MAGNOLIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS

majority are Gulen Movement . 

Abrahamic Alliance International, Pacifica Institute & Bay Area Cultural Connections Gulen spider webs #UmitYapanel

and HERE is Umit "Matt" Yapanel who is on the MAGNOLIA SCIENCE ACADEMY school

board in Los Angeles, CA despite living over 6 hours away from the School District.   Umit "Matt" is a die hard Gulenists besides Magnolia Science Academy he was principal of the failed Gulen operated school in Colorado "Lotus School of Excellence"



Matt will at least admit he is "Inspired" by Imam Muhammed Fethullah Gulen but we think it's much much more than "inspired"

                                             R- Umit "Matt" Yapanel board member of Gulen operated
Magnolia Science Academy is always attending Pacifica Institute, BAYCC, and Abrahamic Alliance International meetings.   Why is he allowed to be on the Magnolia MERF school board?

Timur Saka the Gulenist why does he lie so much? YALAN #WhoIsTimurSaka

Magnolia Science Academy 2016 tax returns, large salaries of administrators hardly a "non-profit" but a for profit

Magnolia Science Academy 2016 tax returns 990 from Gulen Cemaat

Caprice Young Queen of Gulen Charter School Magnolia Schools rehearsal o...

Caprice Young of Gulen Magnolia School talks about her ADHD, Dyslexia an...

"They just didn't understand how my brain was"

Caprice Young's CCSA spent $1 million to unseat
Disabled and Special Needs student advocate Bennet Kayser
from LAUSD to put in Dr. Ref Rodriguez a charter school shill.
In their ads they made fun of a shaking hand dropping a cup of coffee
in reference to Mr. Kayser's Parkinston Disease.

Gulenist "Hobbit" Yilmaz Ak, Director of Accountability wears many hats at Gulen "inspired" schools

Yilmaz Ak "Hobbit"  former principal of Gulen inspired "Coral Academy of Science" was moved to the Gulen "inspired" Magnolia Science Acadmey- Santa Clara to be the new prinicpal in 2013.  The former principal Tim (Timur) Saka came from the other Gulen "inspired schools in Colorado and Utah - Lotus School of Excellence and Beehive Science Academy.
Yilmaz Ak is currently on the top heavy administrative staff of Magnolia Public Schools as the
(please don't laugh)  Director of Accountability <----hold the laughter please

Students at the Santa Clara Magnolia campus referred to Yilmaz Ak as "Hobbit" because of his 

short stature.  Here is a photo when AK was principal of Magnolia Santa Clara, note that second from Right is the current principal Dr. Michele Ryan who was booted off of the Santa Clara Unified School District.    Ak is even shorter than the women in this photo                                   

Jaya Gautam, Mr. Ak, principal, Mr. Taymaz, Ro Khanna, Sanjeev Gautam, Dr. Ryan, Shobana Ramamurthi

Dr. Michele Ryan their current prinicipal sided with Caprice Young on protecting 
Magnolia's erratic behavior.  When it was pointed out to her that she was putting herself in a conflict of interest by favoring the Magnolia schools, she recused herself.  Now is the current principal.  

Yilmaz Ak named in Magnolia Science Academy audit as floating a "loan" to the troubled organization.  Shouldn't the "Director of Accountability" mention where he got the $40,000.00 

TIMELINE OF TROUBLED MAGNOLIA SCIENCE ACADEMY - SANTA CLARA

TIMELINE
1. March 2009: Santa Clara County Board of Education approves the charter petition for Magnolia Science Academy-Santa Clara, a countywide charter. The charter was approved for a three-year period (July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010). The school did not open as planned in fall 2009. In early 2010, the charter was revised.
2. Fall 2010: Magnolia opens MSA-Santa Clara at a site in Sunnyvale (1095 Dunford Way). This is the first of three charter schools for which a 3-year charter was granted to them by the board of the Santa Clara County Office of Education (SCCOE).
3. Fall 2012: MSA-Santa Clara moves into the campus at 2720 Sonoma Place in Santa Clara which belongs to Santa Clara Unified. This site was the longtime home to a historically important Santa Clara school, John Millikin Elementary School. The lease agreement is for three years only: 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15 (exp. June).
4. Jan. 2013: SCCOE grants a five-year renewal to Magnolia despite the district finding it has a negative cash flow, poor fiscal accounting and a problem with internal controls. Anna Song is the only trustee who dissented. Also, Magnolia never opened its promised other two charter schools in Santa Clara County.
5. May 2013: SCCOE issues a Notice of Concern to MSA-Santa Clara, citing "failure to meet generally accepted accounting principals." pdf
6. June 2014: With MSA-SC's lease due to expire at the end of 2014-15, Magnolia makes its first request to Santa Clara Unified for a lease extension. It is denied.
7. Oct. 2014: Petition for a totally brand new charter school, the STEM Academy of Silicon Valley (SASV), was submitted to Santa Clara Unified. Seeing the writing on the wall (that MSA-SC will have to close if it cannot get its lease extended or find another site) -- and with the Magnolia organization in turmoil in LAUSD, etc. -- principal Yilmaz Ak and a group of individuals attempt to open a brand new charter school for 2015-16. Supposedly this school would not be operated by Magnolia, but it clearly would be a reconstituted version of MSA-SC that could enroll its soon-to-be-school-siteless student body. Clearly they did this with the hope that the new charter school would qualify for a Santa Clara Unified site under Prop 39. And/or maybe they could have qualified for some start-up grant that would help them lease a space.
8. Jan. 2015: The SCUSD board unanimously votes against the SASV proposal.
  9. Feb 2015: SCCOE hearing on SASV (at some point Yilmaz Ak, et al, submitted the same proposal to the Santa Clara County authorizer)..
10. Mar. 4, 2015: Yilmaz Ak submits letter to SCCOE urging them to call a special meeting to decide on SASV asap. He explains that he has applied for Prop 39 facilities and must have the charter approved by March 15th. He closes the letter with, "I would like to avoid having to turn to the courts to settle this issue."
11. March 6, 2015: For the 3rd time, the Magnolia community comes to a Santa Clara Unified meeting to try to persuade the school board to extend their lease for the campus on Sonoma Place (sometimes called the "Central Park" site).

12. March 11, 2015: SASV was unanimously denied its charter application by the board of SCCOE. 13. March 17, 2015: Magnolia CEO Caprice Young comes up to the Bay Area. Holds a town hall meeting w/MSA-SC families and meets with and/or threatens who knows?

UPDATE-

14. August 2015: moves to current location in East San Jose school district at the Hispanic University sharing space with "Voices". Moving to this location and never properly notifying the school district or the school superintendent of this school district Chris Funk.
15. January 2016: formally notifies Mt. Pleasant School district to move into their school district after school district was informally notified by the SCCSD charter division of their request.  Dr. Caprice Young never reaches out to either school district, receives a letter from attorney for Mt. Pleasant School District of educational codes and laws that were broken.
16. April 2016: Magnolia files for yet another revision plan and is admonished at SCCUSD BOE meeting for not knowing or understanding that they must collaborate with hosting school districts.
17. May 4, 2016- SCCOE cancels meeting citing "further investigations into possible violation(s) postponed to May 18, 2016 meeting.
18. June 2016 Magnolia Science Academy Santa Clara makes formal announcement to SCCOE that they will be closing their school.
19. July 2016 SCCOE is putting together the final debt that that Magnolia has left behind, estimates are as high as $1, million

WATCH board meeting item #10 MAGNOLIA

Magnolia Science Academies saved by the bell from closure

After the removal of all Gulen Movement people in their administration at Magnolia, the new helm of the schools Caprice Young has convinced the LAUSD to continue with the schools and renew the 3 schools that were scheduled to be closed. However the statewide audit will continue. What is the story behind the story?

The largest chain of privately managed charter schools in the United States is that of those affiliated with the cultish Gülenist Movement. Proving that no scandal is too large for the combined financial and political power of the revenue hungry charter school industry, the Los Angeles based Magnolia branches of the Gülen Network have essentially committed the crime, but will not do the time. The Los Angeles Times outlines the scale of Magnolia's crimes: "An audit performed last year for the district’s Office of the Inspector General found that Magnolia was $1.66 million in the red, owed $2.8 million to the schools it oversees and met the federal definition of insolvency. The Palms academy also was insolvent, the audit found." One cringes thinking of all the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) public school libraries that could have been reopened with those millions "missing" from the privately managed Magnolia Gülen Charters. Last time millions of dollars went "missing" from a huge Los Angeles charter chain was during the massive Inner City Education Fund (ICEF) scandal. Their former "CEO" Mike Piscal is still at large somewhere in the country. Steve Poizner's partner in the crime of establishing the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA), Caprice Young, was brought in as the spin-spokesperson for that staggering squandering of taxpayer money. Once more Young is brought in to provide cover for mind-boggling charter school impropriety, this time at Magnolia. Turns out Caprice Young has been working for Gülen's charter network all along documents the connections between Young and her new employer. The intrepid Scott M. Folsom gathered all the news on this issue, and added his salient thoughts on the matter. I do differ with Folsom on one point—this has everything to with "Fethullah Gülen involvement", and anyone aware of the cult's well documented undue influence over LAUSD board members like Monica Garcia, knows how much power these malfeasants have. The allegations against Magnolia are of Misuse of Public Funds. Plain and simple. No amount of “great schoolage” and kids on waiting lists forgive this. Ultimately this is a matter of law enforcement - and the LAUSD Board – as public trustees and empowered with enforcing the charter law and protecting the public purse – have blinked/waffled/whatever. I hate to be “zero intolerant” – but there are no waivers or mulligans for malfeasance. The Man Behind the Curtain has nothing to do with the case: This has nothing to do with with the Fethullah Gülen involvement with Magnolia; to bring that up is a bit of misdirection. Parental Choice does not give the right to parents to choose to send their kids to a bad school -- whether the school is bad because it does a crummy job of teaching students or managing the public’s funds. I consider Caprice Young a friend – but she has been brought in to save the day and impose order amidst fiscal chaos while framing and spinning and charming the story of the chaos as something less than egregious. The biblical metaphor of pouring oil upon the waters comes to mind – but ask the folks on the Gulf Coast – or in Alaska: Oily waters are not necessarily a desirable outcome! The Board in its role as charter authorizer and overseer moved to suspend the three charters. It may have dodged a public vote earlier – but it had authorized the superintendent to act in its behalf. That’s what superintendents and Boards of Ed do. Then the Board of Ed went into closed session and changed their mind and/or had their minds changed. The process of granting, suspending and reviewing charters is supposed to occur in Mr. Justice Brandeis’ “Disinfecting Sunshine”. Instead it happened behind closed doors in the guise of settling a lawsuit http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2015/03/financially-malfeasant-charters-run-by.html

Magnolia Science Academy-Charter Management Organization.

NOW HERE IS ISLAMIC IMAM FETHULLAH GULEN IN HIS MULLAH CLOTHING. 

Magnolia Schools charter management organization

Courtesty of Charter School Scandals

http://www.charterschoolscandals.blogspot.com/

Note: The Magnolia Schools are Gulen schools.

This post has four sections:

• Background information about the approval of a petition for a charter school in Santa Clara County, California. The school, Magnolia Science Academy – Santa Clara, is slated to open in Sunnyvale for the 2010-2011 school year and is currently enrolling students.
• Revealing excerpts from an email exchange sent to me by a reader who, as a prospective parent, was in communication with a representative of the new MSA-Santa Clara school.
• Evidence which clearly contradicts the representative’s statements.
• Why so much about Turkey and Turkish?

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PART 1: Petition approved!
In July 2008, the San Mateo Union High School District rejected a charter school petition submitted by the Magnolia Educational and Science Foundation [aka Magnolia Educational and Research Foundation]. As the San Francisco Examiner explained:

In March 2009, three Magnolia Charter Schools were approved (5-2) by the Santa Clara County Board of Education.
But because the Magnolia Science Academy-Santa Clara (MSA) did not open as planned in fall 2009, the Santa Clara County Board of Education sent a Notice of Violations in February 2010. “Administration defers recommendation to the Board’s legal counsel.”
In April 2010, the board members reviewed the status of the charter school’s remediation of the violation and voted (4-2-1) to approve the recruitment and enrollment revisions.
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PART 2: Answers given
This is a prospective parent’s May 2010 email communication with a staff member fielding questions about the school. Note the lines I've highlighted in bold.
From: PARENT
Subject: can we enroll?
To: santaclara@magnoliascience.org

From: B...@...

Hi,
We have no affiliation with the movement. Some of our staff may have unofficial affiliation with the movement, though we do not question our teachers' affiliations with any political party or religious organization…
I believe you are misinformed by internet conspiracy theories. Let me correct a few things you mentioned in your email…
1. There is no country as "Islamic Republic of Turkey." Turkey is a secular country about to join European Union… [According to the U.S. Department of State, Turkey is officially known as the Republic of Turkey and is 99 percent Muslim]
3. We have no affiliation to Beehive or Chesapeake so I don't know their case. I just checked on the internet and it says they were closed because they had low enrollment and not enough financial security…
6. Turkish language is only offered at one Magnolia school as an elective out of nine schools. And that was due to demand from parents. We offer Spanish as primary foreign language. Based on demand from parents we have opened Chinese, Japanese and French in some of our schools. 8 out of 9 of our schools have never offered Turkish language…

From: PARENT

From: B...@...

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PART 3: Evidence clearly contrary to the staff member's claims
Eleven schools are listed on the home page of the Magnolia Schools Web site, two of which will be opened in the Fall of 2010. ALL of the active schools feature formal and institutionalized activities for students which give an intense exposure to Turkish culture and travel. I encourage you to follow the progressions and explore.
1. Magnolia Science Academy 1 – Reseda; Varol Gurler, principal

• Home page>Europe Trip: “MSA had a wonderful trip to Turkey with 4 students and 2 teachers during the spring break.”
• Home page>Arizona Trip and Turkish Contest [April 1-4]: “MSA had a trip to Arizona with 13 students, 3 parents and 4 teachers for four days during the spring break. We went to Grand Canyon. The following day we went to Phoenix for the Turkish Competiton [sic]. Our students competed in poem, skit and special talent categories.”
• Gallery>2008 Turkish Olympiads, 16 pictures
• Documents>After School Programs>Turkish club with Mr. Yilmaz

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2. Magnolia Science Academy 2 – Valley; Erdal Kocak, principal

• Social/Fun Clubs> “TURKISH CLUB - Students will have the opportunity of learning Turkish culture beside Turkish language and songs. Students will taste various Turkish food, make cultural filed [sic] trips and watch movies.”
• Gallery>2007-2008 Album>Trips>Turkish Class Six Flags
• Gallery>2009-2010 Album>Trips and Camps>After School Clubs>Turkish Folk Dance Club
• Trulia.com review for MSA2: “…They have a good foreign language program which includes Spanish, Turkish, and Russian…”

----UPDATE: 2/28/2011 ERDAL KOCAK WAS A TEACHER AT THE GULEN ISEK COLLEGE IN MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA HERE IS HIS PHOTO AND BIO

Mr Kocak commenced working at ISIK College in 2001 as the Principal, in charge of the Secondary Girls section. In 2002, he was appointed as the Principal in charge of Secondary Boys, Secondary Girls, as well as Primary school section. In 2006 he was appointed as the Principal of ISIK College Dandenong campus

3. Magnolia Science Academy 3 – Carson (formerly Gardena); “Matt”/Metin Demir, principal

• Left vertical bar>Turkish Contest: April 3-4th Mesa Arts Center In Phoenixs [sic], AZ Thanks to all the students that participated! Our trip to Arizona headed out Friday, April 2nd at 9a.m. The weekend was full of not only Acticvties [sic] during the Contest but also visiting the Grand Canyon, Raw Hyde, and Flagstaff. Students enjoyed sight seeing, Snow Ball fights, and Go Cart Racing. Nevertheless the Turkish Language & Performing Arts Contest was the highlight and main event of our trip. We had a total of 11 participants representing our school this year…Our very own [student name] won First Place in the Special Talent Category. Five states participated in the West Coast and we had the only winner in the state of California! Lets [sic] all congratulate everyone that participated.
• Left vertical bar>Anatolian Festival>Gallery page labeled “Anatolian Cultures and Food Festival,” 34 pictures
• Gallery>2009-2010 Albums>Turkish Language & Art Contest, 43 pictures
• Gallery>2009-2010 Albums> Europe Trip 2010, 85 Pictures: Photographs reveal a trip to Turkey, complete with minarets and a Turkish flag flying on a pole (see image above).

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4. Magnolia Science Academy 4 – Venice; Mustafa Sahin, principal

• Msa4 News, April 2010>Page 5>Arizona Trip: “The ext [sic] day, early in the morning, we went to the Mesa Art Center to watch the Turkish contest. Our friend November participated in the contest. She sang a Turkish song and we supported her.” And “On the last day, we watched the finals of Turkish Contest and many students performed singing, dancing, skits and poetry. That was unforgettable!”
• Msa4 News, April 2010>Page 6>Europe Trip: “The Europe Trip was an unforgettable journey to France and Turkey. The students went there over Spring Break. They flew into France, and stayed there for two days. On the second day, they headed to Turkey by flying over Europe. It was a total of eleven days and packed with many events to do and see. There was also a choice of just going to Turkey for nine days. Mr. Gurcan arranged all the trip details…After Paris they took a flight to Turkey, Istanbul for three days. They stayed at Ufuk School…They took another flight to Turkey, Izmir and stayed there for two days. They stayed at Marla Hotel. While they stayed at Marla Hotel they met the parents of one of the teachers from MSA6, Mr. Koray…
• From Trulia.com reviews for MSA4: "…They have Turkish, Ethics and Art classes too. Many of the teachers are Turkish. They go on field trips every month. There is also a yearly trip to Europe and Turkey…"and "…I don t [sic] like how many Turkish teachers there are because some of their accents are hard to understand..."

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5. Magnolia Science Academy 5 – Hollywood; Dr. Suleyman Karaman, principal

• Gallery>Year 2008-2009>Europe Trip>Turkiye, 21 pictures)
• Gallery>Year 2008-2009>Trips>Anatolian Cultures and Food Festival, 31 pictures
• After School>Club Descriptions: “TURKISH CLUB Students will have the opportunity of learning Turkish culture beside Turkish language and songs. Students will taste various Turkish food, make cultural filed [sic] trips and watch movies.”
• Documents>December 2009 Newsletter>MSA Student Parent Handbook: “Europe trip is scheduled for the spring break, in between March 25 and April 5. For more information, please see Mr. Emin”*
• Documents>MSA Student Parent Handbook: “Field Trips offer exciting ways to learn. MSA students will have the opportunity to go on field trips at various times throughout the school year. MSA plans many field trips, weekend getaways, summer camp, and our infamous Europe Trip during spring break.”

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6. Magnolia Science Academy 6 – Palms: “Ike”/FNU Ozis, principal**

• Gallery>Europe Trip 2010, 10 Pictures: Photographs of kids standing in front of famous French and Turkish landmarks
• Gallery>Arizona Trip 2010, 12 Pictures: Photographs of kids doing various activities along with a photo of students on stage at the Turkish Language Institute sponsored Turkish Language & Performing Arts Contest.
• Documents>MSA Student Parent Handbook (same as above for MSA5): “Field Trips offer exciting ways to learn. MSA students will have the opportunity to go on field trips at various times throughout the school year. MSA plans many field trips, weekend getaways, summer camp, and our infamous Europe Trip during spring break.”

7. Magnolia Science Academy – San Diego: “David”/possibly Durmush Yilmaz

• Gallery>Field Trips and Camps>Turkish Cultural Trip (Jan ’08), 19 pictures: Photographs of a small number of kids (6) on an outing to a beach and eating in someone’s home (Turkish-style floor seating around a short table)
• Gallery>Field Trips and Camps>International Trip (Apr ’08), 27 pictures: Photographs of kids (same three students) posing at famous Turkish landmarks
• Gallery>Academic Activities>Turkish Language & Performing Arts Contest (Apr ’10), 30 pictures

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8. Magnolia Science Academy 8 – Bell (LA County): Opening in 2010-2011
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9. Magnolia Science Academy – Santa Clara: Opening in 2010-2011 Timur Saka was selected as Principal Timur (Tim) previously worked at the Magnolia schools in Los Angeles and helped to set up the other Gulen Charter schools in Utah and Colorado.  Beehive Science Academy and Lotus School for Excellence. 
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10. Pacific Technology School – Orangevale*** (Sacramento County, opened September 2009)); Mahmut Altun, principal.  Mahmut Altun is the former Gulen Foundation PASIAD in Indonesia that oversees all Gulen interests (Schools and cultural events)  in 2007 he contributed to a paper about the Gulen Movement in SouthEast Asia..  http://www.rsis.edu.sg/publications/WorkingPapers/WP160.pdf

• After School>Academic Clubs & Teams: “TURKISH CLUB Students will have the opportunity to learn Turkish culture and language. Students will taste various Turkish foods, go on cultural field trips, and watch movies.”

This is how Mahmut signs his e mails:
Sincerely
Mr. Mahmut ALTUN  MS, MaEd.
Principal
Pacific Technology Charter School
Phone 916.293-8611
Fax 916.293.8609
6550 Filbert Ave
Orangevale, CA 95662
http://www.ov.ptscharter.org/
                “Inspiring students to choose career paths in Science and Technology”
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11. Pacific Technology School – Orange County***; “Steven”/FNU Keskinturk, principal

• Gallery>Europe Trip, 51 pictures: Photographs of kids posing at famous French and Turkish landmarks and eating a meal “Turkish-style.”
• Gallery>Trip to Anatolian Festival, 27 pictures: Photographs of kids posing at famous French and Turkish landmarks and eating “Turkish-style.” [it appears the Anatolian Cultures & Food Festival was sponsored by the Pacifica Institute]

*NOTE: Images of the Europe trips never include countries other than France and Turkey
**FNU = first name unknown
***These schools earned the classification of Statewide Benefit Charter schools. From the California Department of Education: "The State Board of Education may authorize a five-year charter for the operation of a charter school that will provide instructional services of "statewide benefit" that cannot be provided by a charter school operating in only one school district, or only in one county. Statewide benefit charters must adhere to all other charter laws with the exception of geographic limitations. They must open at least two new sites/schools in different counties in areas with struggling schools. After the first two sites have operated for two years and met performance objectives, operators may open two additional sites each year."
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…Some of our international teachers are Turkish. They probably organize cultural events with Turkish food. But I am very sure there is no religious concept mentioned or discussed with students. Baklava and shish kebab hardly constitutes a cultural enforcement…

Thank you for your reply, but we were told that the Gulen schools teach Turkish language, dance, singing - they have a Turkish American Club and then take a Trip to the Islamic Republic of Turkey…

even though the school is run by the Gulen Islamic movement, we are a Christian family would it be OK to enroll our children?

“Undeterred by the district decision, the Magnolia Foundation turned to the California Board of Education and received authorization to open 10 new charter schools anywhere in the state during the next six years. The foundation can locate its schools within any district without seeking approval at the local level, according to Joseph Hurmali, the foundation’s president.” [Joseph Hurmali may be an AKA for Huseyin Hurmali who has "led many study tours to Turkey" including this Gulenist promotional tour.]