Woodland Preparatory School

Better luck next year Soner Tarim have you told the truth to that Woodland Prep board ? There is no longer a business relationship to LEAD Academy  https://cis.org/North/Audit-Controversial-EB5-Funded-Charter-School-Foretells-Bankruptcy We have suggested in the past that the combination of the loosely run charter school movement with the loosely managed EB-5 immigrant investor program shows every sign of being  a disaster for everyone involved  (students, teachers, and taxpayers) — except for the middlemen.  They usually do just fine, thank you. We have been following, among others, the case of one specific charter school in the suburbs of Charlotte, N.C., where until recently the state government has been, at the very least, more lax than most states in its supervision of charter schools. This is a school in which six (probably Chinese) aliens have invested $500,000 each in the hopes of getting a family-sized set of green cards through the Homeland Se...

Washington County Wilson vs. Soner Tarim Unity School Services Response #Gulen #WoodlandPreparatory from Gulen Cemaat Montgomery’s first charter school remains a first-rate mess. As former LEAD Academy principal Nichole Ivey-Price prepares for another hearing in her ongoing wrongful termination lawsuit against the charter school, a number of current and former LEAD employees have told APR that the environment at the school remains one of near-chaos. Perhaps most surprising, the employees said that Unity School Services — the management company led by Soner Tarim, the controversial charter school guru with questionable ties to a Turkish religious movement — is no longer involved at LEAD. Subscribe to APR's daily newsletter email address According to the employees, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to fear that they would face retaliation for speaking about the situation, Tarim and his top employee haven’t been at LEAD in weeks and office duties usually per...

Foreign immigrants get U.S. visas after investing $80M into mom-and-pop charter schools Reporter Craig Harris reports from North Carolina, where a small charter school received $3 million from foreign investors who in turn got visas. BRIAN SNYDER AND CRAIG HARRIS, ARIZONA REPUBLIC EDUCATIONAL FUND OF AMERICA  PARTNERS WITH AMERICAN CHARTER DEVELOPMENT  https://www.azcentral.com/videos/news/local/arizona-investigations/2019/12/02/foreign-immigrants-get-visas-after-80-m-investment-charter-schools/4065550002/ Educational Fund of America website showing American Charter Development their PARTNERS, the same American Charter Development building controversial Woodland Preparatory Click here Educational Fund of America Watch short video of Educational Fund of America partnership with American Charter Development the builders of Woodland Preparatory School American Charter Development http://amercd.com/team/