Meet 'The Founders': CAPRICE YOUNG The Lying Scoundrel

Pathological liar, thank God she is gone as of June 30th,

1) She is not a founder of Gulen Schools, the founders are all gone from California, and USA only 2 remain in California

2)  The Gulen Movement isn't "Muslim" they are a cult, the biggest critics of Gulen Movement and these schools are Muslims especially other Turkish people.

3)  Caprice Young when she was on school board couldn't open Charter Schools fast enough in Los Angeles and loved dumping this pathetic schools near Armenian Christian Churches, neighborhoods, cultural centers and businesses.

4)  The last CEO Mehmet Argin didn't resign in July 2014 he was fired because the schools were going to be closed.  So in a back room deal with LAUSD with the charter school law firm of Young, Minny & Corr (a pathetic lawfirm that cares about money not truth) they rid the school of Gulenist Mehmet Argin, and fired a ton of Turkish Teachers and made the school more "Americanized"

Caprice Young was the 5th CEO of Magnolia Science Academy in 16 years and the first white female

5)  2 Magnolia schools closed 1 in Orangevale, CA and 1 in Santa Clara

6)  there as significant financial mismanagement of the Magnolia Science Academies from their audit including $300,000 that went to paying for the H1-b Visas of Turkish Teachers and family members

7)  Magnolia has had no significant gains in their student body and their future is uncertain whoever takes over these trouble schools will do so for the money

8)  Magnolia Science Academy was never unfairly "harassed" because they were Gulenists, or Turkish,  They were rightfully under scrutiny for mismanagement of American tax dollars and their lying to parents, LAUSD and fabricating "test scores"

9)  Magnolia Science Academy is NOT a high performing school all Gulen Schools claim to be "Blue Ribbon" or a "Top School reported by US News and World Report"

10)  Why the lying Caprice?  What makes you a lying scoundrel? Is it the money or the power?  You know dam good and well they are the Gulen Movement, you have been to Turkey and you have also spoken for their lobbying group Pacificia Institute

Mehmet Argin he's baaaack - former superintendent of Magnolia Science Academy

BC (Before Caprice)  Mr. Mehmet Argin was the Superintendent of Magnolia Science Academies.  Refresh your memory - prior to Magnolia Science Academy.  Mr. Argin was a principal of Paragon Schools / Sonoran Science Academy in Arizona.
Mr. Argin and his wife Turkan Argin were both political contributors to politicians including the ex state school superintendent Tom Horne who left and withdrew from his second campaign after a rather embarrassing radio show.  We have discussed Argin at length on his blog.
Here about his history with Gulen Movement  In USA Mehmet Argin and Gulen Charter Schools

Here on corrupt ex school superintendent Tom Horne Mehmet and Turkan donate to Tom Horne

Here Tom Horne is outed on a radio show about Gulen Tom Horne outed Gulen

After the LAUSD attempted closure of MSA #6 and #7 of which they hired an attorney from the CCSA charter school law firm of Young, Minney & Corr a rather rude unprofessional attorney who resembles a little boy (Junell) placed a legal block on the closure notice., The deal was to replace "Argin" with Caprice Young at a much higher rate of $250,000 yr and allow her to have free and complete control of hiring/ terminations, and basically making Magnolia less "Turkish" and more about Caprice and her educational reform plans.   Shortly afterwards, Mehmet moved back to Turkey in late 2014. 

Note Mehmet refers to Sonoran Science Academy as "Sonoran, Inc" and 

to Magnolia Science Academies as "MERF" 

Mehmet Argin stayed in Turkey, where he taught at a Gulen school,  till the July 2016 coup, he then moved back to the USA a few weeks latter (August 2016) where he obtained a job with Cal Poly Pomona with another Gulenist that was on the board of the Magnolia Science Academies while his wife Turkan Argin taught at Magnolia Science Academy.   Mehmet is now in Houston, Texas (Little Istanbul) teaching at the Houston Community College. 

Magnolia Science Academy makes a weak attempt to answer LAUSD and OIG charges

Gulen Movement is the catalyst for the charter schools

and the charter schools are the BUSINESS catalyst for Gulen Movement

 

 

Magnolia Public Schools responded this week to a report which accused the charter school operator of financial mismanagement and insolvency.
An attorney and an accountant for Magnolia admitted there had been bookkeeping errors but argued most of the discrepancies could have been cleared up if Los Angeles Unified school district officials had given them an opportunity to respond.
“We don’t want to get into a big fight with the organization that funds us. We want to get back into a dialogue so we can clear up some of these things,” said Kim Joseph Onisko, a certified public accountant representing Magnolia. “There’s no reason organizations with these type of academic results should be put out of business for bookkeeping boo boos.”
The school board voted in March 2014 to conditionally approve two Magnolia schools – Magnolia Science Academy 6 in Palms and Magnolia Science Academy 7 in Northridge.
On June 27, district staff sent a letter to Magnolia stating the charters for the two schools had not been renewed. The letter cited the findings of a forensic investigation by Vicente, Lloyd & Stutzman, although the full report was not released until last month.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Luis Lavin granted an injunction in July, allowing the schools to remain open. Lavin said the non-renewal decision should have been made at a public meeting.
The investigation summary focused on funds passed between schools and to the Magnolia Educational and Research Foundation, the charter operator. The summary also questioned the organization’s solvency due to “deficit spending.”
Onisko denied the schools were ever financially insolvent. Magnolia Public Schools has $9 million in net assets, he said, and none of the schools had deficits as of June 30, 2014.
“A lot of the financial issues in dispute between the parties relate to a question of whether Magnolia Public Schools should be treated as one single entity or whether it should be treated as 11 separate public schools and a separate charter organization,” said attorney Jerry Simmons.
Magnolia views the transfer of funds between schools the same as moving money from one department to another. Simmons said this is consistent with how other charter management organizations and other school districts operates. Simmons said they file one tax return and operate as a single entity for all other purposes.
The report also showed the school spent more than $200,000 for immigration fees over five years. The report stated the school paid for six non-employees, although Magnolia says it was only three.
Under federal law, the school is required to pay visa expenses for potential employees, so the immigration expenses for non-employees were for potential teachers who were denied visas. Magnolia has 20 foreign teachers.
The forensic review also raised questions about a field trip taken by students at two Magnolia schools. The school purchased the airline tickets and booked the hotels to save through collective purchasing, but all expenses were paid by student fundraising, according to Magnolia.
School officials also defended their relationship with the Accord Institute for Education Research which provides a variety of services, including curriculum development and professional training. Magnolia has paid approximately $3 million to the vendor. The auditors said the fee was 30 percent of the schools’ budget, although Magnolia states it is only 4 percent of the overall budget.
The schools have also faced accusations that they use their vendor agreements to pay for services they did not receive in order to support the controversial Gülen movement led by a Turkish Islamic scholar.
“Individual employees are free to do what they want on their own time, but as an organization, we have no association with any religious sect or movement and they have never received any funds from the school,” Magnolia stated.
Simmons and Onisko claim LAUSD did not follow state law when it conditionally renewed Magnolia’s charters. The Charter Schools Act only allows the board to vote for or against renewal, Simmons said. He argues the board should have renewed the charters and then started revocation procedures if new evidence was discovered.
Simmons said the revocation procedure would have allowed them an opportunity to respond at public hearings. Onisko said it is also unusual for an organization being audited to not have an opportunity to respond to the findings.
“It’s troubling if it’s true they relied on the report that wasn’t even issued until September to make a decision in June,” he said.
Although the school board voted in August to support the decision not to renew the charters, the Los Angeles County Office of Education stated the charters will remain renewed as long as the injunction remains in place. At this point, the district has not expressed any plans to ask the judge to drop the injunction. School board member Tamar Galtzan declined to comment due to the pending court action.
Magnolia now faces more investigations. LAUSD has expanded its probe to include all nine of Magnolia’s LA County schools, including Lake Balboa and Reseda. The state is also conducting an audit which is expected to take six months.

http://www.postperiodical.com/magnolia-public-schools-responds-lausd-report/

Mehmet Argin formerly of Paragon Science Academy now Magnolia Science Academy CEO "No Organic Ties" REALLY?

Mehmet Argin is a loyal Gulen Follower and will go anywhere to grow the share
of power for the Gulen Movement. 

MEHMET ARGIN, WE CHALLENGE YOU TO STOP
LYING ABOUT THE CHARTER SCHOOLS AFFILIATED
WITH EXILED IMAM FETHULLAH GULEN

2010 USA Today Article "Objectives of charter schools with Turkish ties questioned"
 http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-08-17-turkishfinal17_CV_N.htm

in this article Argin is quoted:

that Daisy Education Corporation "has no legal or organic ties" with other schools.  He cautions against linking charter schools founded by Turkish-Americans directly to the Gulen Movement "just because Turkish Americans may be inspired by Mr. Gulen"
Quote by Mehmet Argin

4 years ago 2010 Mehmet Argin was with the Sonoran Science Academies /Paragon Science in Arizona.  He made a statement that none of these schools opened by Turkish Americans have "organic ties".  Mehmet Argin even put out the usual Gulen endorsement of Paragon Science Academy.

 

Fast forward to 2014 Mehmet is now in California working as the CEO Superintendent of the Gulen-Inspired operation Magnolia Science Academy.  Here is his glowing endorsement of the California schools.  If you compare with the Paragon video above you will hear the same words.

Now for the other Gulen Liar- Mr. Umit (Matt) Yapanel, who is currently the Superintendent of the

California Schools.  Matt (Umit) was formerly the Principal in Colorado of the Gulen "inspired" school Lotus School of Excellence.  Matt failed to get an expansion in CO, because of poor scores and hired an attorney to take his case to the state board of education EPIC FAILED. (does that story sound familiar California People?)

http://gulencharterschoolsusa.blogspot.com/2010/11/matt-yapanel-lotus-school-for.html

 

SOMEONE IS TELLING A FIB

From Colorado to Arizona to California

These are all connected and part of the Gulen Movement

 

 

Paragon Science academy in Chandler, AZ where Mehmet Argin CEO of Magnolia Schools came from

American Students dancing and learning Turkish culture on American taxpayer's dime

This is Mehmet Argin's old school.  Mehmet Argin is currently CEO of Magnolia Schools

Magnolia Science Academy Elton San Juan performs at Turkish Olympiad

My cousin, Elton Sanjuan performing a Turkish poem at the 6th Turkish National Olympiad in Long Beach,CA . Has been 1st place from his school, then 1st place from Los Angeles and once again 1st place of California. Made it to the Top 5 and after this great perfomance, he was able to take 4th place home. Good job, primo.
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School: Magnolia #8 Middle School
Teacher: Mr. Veli

Magnolia Science Academy closes one school, opens another 16 miles away

Magnolia Public Schools aka Magnolia Science Academies aka Magnolia STEM Schools moved from one location to another 16 miles away. In doing this, they abandoned the families that went to the old school and LIED to the new community they went to by saying "it was a new school"