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scary...the Gov. skipped his Act for America meetings. We have the Turkish Gulan schools proliferating in TX. on tax-payer dollars. IS HE DOING HIS HOMEWORK?

Have you been doing your homework? Did yo bother to read the New York Times article that woman's site mentions?

Charter Schools Tied to Turkey Grow in Texas

Reads to me that the biggest complaint about them is that they bring in foreign, H-1B visaed teachers--mostly from Turkey--to teach math, science, and technology because they can't find enough American teachers to do so. That makes the unions angry. They also are alleging that the teachers--GASP!--work for less and are willing to work more hours. How horrible to have teachers who are dedicated to their jobs more than their pocketbooks.

It also reads like there may be a question about the possibility that they are assigning contracts improperly favoring Turkish contractors. If that's true, it needs to be investigated and dealt with accordingly. As far as her pre-occupation with Gulen and his brand of Islam, from what I read it is what we would like to see all Muslims following.

Some of the schools’ operators and founders, and many of their suppliers, are followers of Fethullah Gulen, a charismatic Turkish preacher of a moderate brand of Islam whose devotees have built a worldwide religious, social and nationalistic movement in his name. [Followers of Gulen are] a loose network of several million followers of Mr. Gulen, who preaches the need to embrace modernity in a peace-loving, ecumenical version of Islam. At the center of his philosophy is the concept of “hizmet” — public service.

The schools are demanding, require the students to wear uniforms and to achieve, and are scrupulous at avoiding the teaching of anything remotely religious in nature. What they seek to achieve is superior achievement in math, science, and technology and they appear to have a record of performance that backs that up.

It's an old callow technique to smear someone with guilt by association and quite unworthy of someone claiming to be a conservative.

If there is corruption, or if there is something else disturbing, I'm sure it will come out, but if this is all you've got, then it ain't enough.

If you can't support your own candidate without trying to smear another, then maybe you need to re-examine your reasons for supporting that candidate.