Caprice Young of Gulen operated Magnolia Science Academy inserts foot in mouth

"The president of Turkey is busy shooting down Russian planes and smuggling arms to Syria. Doesn’t he have better things to do?” Young asked rhetorically. “The members of my staff are folks who value human rights.”  Caprice Young go fuck yourself, you are insulting Turkey and Erdogan while protecting the criminals that hired you for big money to straighten up their mess.  

OCEANSIDE — A science and technology charter school with branches throughout California is delaying plans to start an academy in Oceanside while it focuses on expansion plans elsewhere in Southern California, officials said.

The decision by Orange County-based Magnolia Public Schools isn’t linked to controversy surrounding its financial record-keeping or to recent criticism by the Turkish government over whether the school’s Turkish-American founders support civil rights protections for Kurds in the southern part of that country. Gulen ordered Kurds to be killed several times and they were slaughtered back in December 2012.  Liars Kurds hate the Gulen Movement. 

The charter group had originally announced in mid-December that it had hoped to open a branch in Oceanside, but withdrew the petition in January to make fixes to the document. It’s now putting the charter petition on the back burner altogether until other projects are completed first.

“We’ll still go forward in Oceanside, but we are not in a big rush,” said Magnolia’s CEO Caprice Young. “We’ll step back and do it in a way that is done right at the right time.” Whether it’s done in 2017 or 2018, we definitely want to service Oceanside,” she said.

The proposed Magnolia Science Academy-Oceanside would eventually serve grades K-12 and emphasize science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM. The charter school had planned to open in August 2017 with about 180 students, according to its original application filed with Oceanside Unified School District. The company has faced challenges over its efforts to expand and over its bookkeeping. The Turkey matter is its most recent controversy.

Turkish leaders have hired a U.S.-based law firm to urge the state to further investigate Magnolia’s financial dealings. School officials said the move is political, because the school’s founders backed a petition drive seeking civil rights protections for embattled Kurds in southeast Turkey. Some of the school’s teachers are Turkish educators who are in the United States on visas. Liars Kurds hate Gulen Movement and burned their schools down.  

“It’s just baffling that the (prime minister) of Turkey is meddling in local schools in the United States,” said Young, a former president of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s board and the founder of the California Charter Schools Association, a powerful lobbying group with L.A. and Sacramento offices.  Dumb Bitch Erdogan isn't the Prime Minister he is the President of Turkey.  

“It’s frustrating and a distraction,” she said.

Critics have asserted that the Magnolia campuses have ties to a U.S.-based Turkish cleric, Fethullah Gulen, who lives in Pennsylvania.

An apparent power struggle between the followers of Gulen and those around Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reached a new pitch of intensity.

“The president of Turkey is busy shooting down Russian planes and smuggling arms to Syria. Doesn’t he have better things to do?” Young asked rhetorically. “The members of my staff are folks who value human rights.”

Magnolia, which serves 3,790 students statewide, oversees a network of charter schools throughout California, including one in San Diego, at 6365 Lake Atlin Ave., as well as one in San Jose, eight in Los Angeles County and one in Orange County.

In San Diego County, Magnolia’s sixth- through eighth-grade science academy on the former campus of Cleveland Elementary School was sold last year to a Newport Beach-based real estate developer, Preface JCR Lake Atlin LLC, for $5.8 million. The developer plans to redevelop the 8.67-acre parcel into a single-family residential subdivision.

Magnolia is in the process of negotiating a move to San Diego Unified School District’s old De Anza school site, at 6575 Estrella Ave. It has plans to develop a new middle school, and is negotiating a lease on the De Anza property where it would pay a total of $1.2 million over the next five years, according to the school district.

A Magnolia elementary and high school also are under consideration near the De Anza School Young said.

Young was hired by the charter school group more than a year ago to strengthen Magnolia’s management, fix accounting and legal problems and create more transparency for the nonprofit. Young is doing a lousy job, we hear she is paid $600,000 to clean up the gulenists dirty diapers.

In recent years, multiple audits into the charter school group — including ones conducted by the California state auditor, Los Angeles Unified School District, the California School Finance Authority and others — found that the umbrella group that oversees the charter schools was in the red.

Young said that the Magnolia Educational and Research Foundation has fixed a majority of the accounting problems by hiring an outside vendor to run its financial affairs. It is on schedule to fix the remaining balance sheet issues by a May deadline.

Meanwhile, Standard & Poor’s upgraded the charter school’s credit rating last year to “stable” from “negative,” giving Magnolia room to borrow money more cheaply.

The state also is placing more confidence in Magnolia’s accounting as the school financing authority approved a $17.4 million loan to the charter school group to build a new facility in Santa Ana — expected to open this August. The school got this money under false pretenses and never disclosed they were a troubled organization.

The school wants to expand in Fremont and Anaheim, where it has fought to lift a moratorium on charter schools. There was no "Moratorium" the people in those towns didn't want Magnolia or Caprice Young.

And, lastly, Magnolia is bidding on a contract to run the 20th Street Elementary School in Los Angeles as a charter after parents there petitioned for a change in administration for the poorly performing public school. This will not happen.  

“Our major goal is to serve underserved  students and we want to do that in a way that is of the  highest quality,” Young said. “We do that in places where we are most wanted.” You were denied 7 applications no one wants you or your lying bastard Gulenists.  

Congressman Grijalva requests investigation of Gulen operated Charter schools

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Gulen-Linked Charter Application in Fremont, California Magnolia Science Academy

Gulen-Linked Charter Called Out At California Board Meeting
Forwarded by Tim Furman

So, this just happened out in Fremont, California. The Gulen node out there, Magnolia "Public" Schools, is applying for a charter at Fremont Unified, a respected school district there run by elected people.

Evidently this district already has a district-run charter school, which sounds to me like an alternative-type school, and it's very well regarded. It also appears that they just got rid of a privately run charter school for various reasons. 

And now they have the Gulenists trying to move in. Here's a short clip. The first speaker is Caprice Young, who has been hired to be the head of Magnolia by the actual Gulenists -- the chain itself was on the rocks in LA and they needed to shore up their image; she is almost certainly not in the Movement herself and may indeed not know what is going on, but it is far more likely that she knows exactly what is going on but is choosing to look away in exchange for a fat paycheck. She certainly has a long history with them and a generally terrible reputation.   The guy speaking after her is a lawyer from Robert Amsterdam's firm; he is indeed representing the government of Turkey.

http://www.tbfurman.us/2016/01/gulen-linked-charter-called-out-at.html

Magnolia Science Academy riddled with scandals, Teacher arrested for having Sex with Students still trying for NEW campus in Anaheim

http://www.dailybreeze.com/general-news/20150911/carson-teacher-arrested-in-alleged-sexual-relationship-with-underage-girl

A teacher at a Carson school is suspected of having a sexual relationship with an underage girl, sheriff’s deputies said Friday.

Mark Falkowski, 28, a teacher at Magnolia Science Academy No. 3, was arrested Thursday following the discovery of inappropriate email communication and Skype conversations with the girl dating back to early 2014, Orange County sheriff’s Lt. Jeffrey Hallock said.

Falkowski was booked at the Orange County jail on suspicion of sending harmful matter to a minor.

Sheriff’s Department investigations were “made aware of the inappropriate relationship after discovery of several inappropriate e-mails between Falkowski and the victim” about a week ago, Hallock said.

“Investigators began collecting evidence and obtained information that indicated that Falkowski and the victim were still involved in a sexual relationship, even though the victim now lives out of state,” Hallock said.

The girl’s age was not disclosed, but she is younger than 18, Hallock said.

In addition to his teaching job, Falkowski coaches a female youth hockey team based in Long Beach, but players come from throughout Southern California.

“Investigators believe that based on his perpetual contact with female juveniles in his capacity as a hockey coach, there may be additional victims,” Hallock said.

Falkowski was held on $100,000 bail and scheduled to appear Tuesday for arraignment. More charges are pending.

Deputies asked anyone with information about victims to call the Orange County Sheriff’s Department’s Special Victims Unit at 714-647-7060 or 714-647-7000.

According to the school, Magnolia Science Academy No. 3 is a public charter school that offers a college preparatory education. Students come primarily from the communities of Carson, Gardena, Wilmington, Compton and Torrance. Students are primarily black and Latino and more than 85 percent receive free and reduced-price lunch.

Magnolia Science Academy was to be closed by the LAUD but negotiated to stay open with their expensive attorney despite the scandals and the Gulen Movement affiliation they have applied for a new school in Anaheim, public hearing December 9, 2015

Anaheim School District 

Gulen operated Magnolia Science Academy Back to School and groundbreaking Remzi Oten Gulenist -Speaker

Magnolia Santa Ana gets a new prinicpal (non Turk) and a new campus 

The Magnolia Science Academy, which was chartered by the Orange County Board of Education after it was rejected by the SAUSD School Board, is hosting a groundbreaking ceremony on Friday, August 7, 2015, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., at 2840 West 1st Street, in Santa Ana.

Light Refreshments will be served at 9:30 a.m. Parking will be available on-site.

Speakers:

• MPS Board Member Remzi Oten (Keynote Speaker) Gulenist
• MPS CEO and Superintendent Dr. Caprice Young
• MSA-Santa Ana Principal Laura Betsabe Schlottman
• Host – Chief External Officer Alfredo Rubalcava

In Attendance:

• U.S. Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, 46th District of California
• Field Representative will be present for Supervisor Andrew Do, 1st District of Orange County
• Field Representative Phil Smith will be present for California State Senator Janet Nguyen, 34th Senate District
• Board of Trustees President Robert M. Hammond, Orange County Board of Education – District 1

Magnolia has allocated more than $150,000 for common-core ready textbooks with full online curriculum support. They also are moving towards blended education including online tools.  For that new mission they have allocated $40,000 to provide Chromebooks for every student attending their school.  They are currently located at 102 Baker St. E, in Costa Mesa.

Magnolia Science Academy is a chain of publicly-funded charter schools in California run by MERF (Magnolia Education and Research Foundation), which was formerly Dialog Cultural, Scientific and Educational Foundation (often abbreviated as “Dialog Foundation”) in Reseda, California. 

In March 2012, a Turkish newspaper ran an article on Huseyin Hurmali (a.k.a. “Joseph” Hurmali) the founding director of the first Magnolia Science Academy who was involved in many subsequent charter school applications, including the failed application for the Pioneer school in Oregon.  The article shows a photo montage of Hurmali along with Fethullah Gulen, and mentions Hurmali’s involvement in the Magnolia Science Academy, according to a charter school blog.

Here is more information about this movement courtesy of Wikipedia:

The Gülen movement is a transnational religious and social movement led by Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen. He has attracted a large number of supporters in Turkey, Central Asia and increasingly in other parts of the World.  Globally, the Gülen movement is especially active in education. In 2009 Newsweek claimed that movement participants run “schools in which more than 2 million students receive education, many with full scholarships”.[25] Estimates of the number of schools and educational institutions vary widely, from about 300 schools in Turkey to over 1,000 schools worldwide.[26][27]

In 2008, the Dutch government investigated the movement’s activities in the Netherlands. Ella Vogelaar, the country’s minister for housing, communities, and integration, warned that “in general terms, when an organization calls for turning away from society, this is at odds with the objectives of integration.” It was, she noted, incumbent upon the government to “keep sharp watch over people and organizations that systematically incite anti-integrative behavior, for this can also be a breeding ground for radicalization.” Testifying about one of the schools in the investigation, a former member of the movement called it a “sect with a groupthink outside of which these students cannot [reason]”:

“After years living in the boarding school it is psychologically impossible to pull yourself away; you get guilt feelings. Furthermore, it forces the students to live, think and do as the Big Brothers [the abis] instruct them to. Furthermore, through psychological pressure, these students are told which choice of career is the best they can make for the sake of high ideals. . . . Another very bad aspect is that students no longer respect their parents and they do not listen if the parents do not live by the standards imposed by the group; they are psychologically distanced from their parents; here you have your little soldiers that march only to the orders of their abis. The abis are obliged to obey the provincial leaders, who in turn must obey the national leaders, who in turn obey Fethullah Gülen.”

The United States of America is the only country in the world where the Gülen movement has been able to establish schools funded to a great extent by the host country’s taxpayers. In June 2011, New York Times shed light on schools in the United States, revealing that “Gulen followers have been involved in starting similar schools around the country — there are about 120 in all, mostly in urban centers in 25 states, one of the largest collections of charter schools in America.”[32]

Federal authorities are investigating several of the movement’s schools for forcing employees to send part of their paychecks to Turkey. In March 2011, Philadelphia Enquirer reported that Federal Agencies including “FBI and the Departments of Labor and Education – were investigating whether some employees were kicking back part of their salaries to a Muslim movement founded by Gulen known as Hizmet.”[34]

The schools are also H-1B visa factories. (These visas are supposed to be reserved for highly skilled workers who fill needs unmet by the American workforce.) In 2011, 292 of the 1,500 employees at the Gülen-inspired Harmony School of Innovation, a Texas school, were on H-1B visas, the school’s superintendent told the New York Times. The schools claim, according to an article written by Sharon Higgins in the Washington Post, that they are unable to find qualified teachers in America—which seems implausible, given the economic crisis and given that some of these new arrivals teach English, which often they speak poorly, or English as a second language, which often they need themselves.[35]

Two schools, located in Texas, have been accused of sending school funds—which are supplied by the government—to Gülen-inspired organizations. The New York Times reported that the some schools were funneling some $50 million in public funds to a network of Turkish construction companies, among them the Gülen-related Atlas Texas Construction and Trading. The schools had hired Atlas to do construction, the paper said, though other bidders claimed in lawsuits that they had submitted more economical bids.

Questions have arisen about the Gülen movement’s possible involvement in the ongoing Ergenekon investigation (Ergenekon allegedly being an ultra-nationalist, pro-military, anti-government gang),[49] which critics have characterized as “a pretext” by the government “to neutralize dissidents” in Turkey.[50] In March 2011, seven Turkish journalists were arrested, including Ahmet Şık, who had been writing a book, “Imamin Ordusu” (The Imam’s Army),[51]which alleges that the Gülen movement has infiltrated the country’s security forces. As Şik was taken into police custody, he shouted,[52]“Whoever touches it gets burned!”. Gülen Movement newspaper Today’s Zaman published an interview[53] with publishers and writers who had published or written the harshest pieces against Gulen and they all claim “nothing happened to them” and thus voids claims made by Şik who made his claim apparently on an attempt to divert attention to Gulen rather than his arrest. Upon his arrest, drafts of the book were confiscated and its possession was banned. Şik has also been charged with being part of the Ergenekon plot.

 More Info:

• http://www.charterschoolwatchdog.com/the-map-of-gulen.html
• http://gulencharterschools.weebly.com/magnolia-science-academy.html
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DReAWz1mSZo
• http://magnoliascienceacademy.blogspot.com/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BClen_movement

http://newsantaana.com/2015/08/01/magnolia-science-academy-to-host-a-groundbreaking-at-their-new-santa-ana-site-on-87/

This groundbreaking was a joke and should never have been allowed.