Mark Hall made the documentary “Killing Ed” about the Gulen charter schools, which he has shown in dozens of communities.
Lord knows he didn’t do it for the money.
He become interested and had to track down what happened and why. Why did a Turkish imam, living in seclusion in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, create a large chain of charter schools, staffed mainly by Turkish teachers?
If you google the film, you can contact Mark Hall and arrange a screening in your community.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
That was an interesting read—but certainly not an uplifting one! A couple of thoughts. First, my sympathy for the Turkish people grows every day. Imagine being stuck between Erdogan and Gülen. That would be like having Americans stuck between Individual-1 and Franklin Graham. And I thought progressives here had it tough.
The other is—I preemptively apologize to my friends in Texas, though I guess you won’t accept it, after all you’re not the only ones with this problem—what a horrible example the state is for virtually everyone that requires a devotion to constitutional principles and good, effective governance. It really is a cesspool of corruption and hypocrisy. The idea that Killing Ed “was just too much ‘truth’ for the current culture in Texas” is so depressing. And the idea that the most beautiful state capital building in the nation and school boards are infested with “too much money from charter school organizations and lobbyists” from an “antidemocratic cult” who “don’t want to confront it…to change their mind[s]” demonstrates as clearly as possible why the issues we discuss here daily are about so much more than public education.
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Billionaires like Gülen shouldn’t have any influence over American public schools; the American public should. Likewise, billionaires like Bill Gates shouldn’t have influence over Turkish or Kenyan or American public schools; the national public should. The faults of Erdogan an Trump do not change that.
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