Woodland Preparatory School

Soner Tarim Unity School Services Contract With LEAD Academy #Gulen from Gulen Cemaat Montgomery's first charter school faces yet another hurdle as the education service provider for LEAD Academy ceased operations at the school several months ago. Unity School Services, a Texas based non-profit, signed a five-year contract with LEAD to provide services that are similar to a central office, including completing the school's payroll, ensuring compliance standards are met and conducting student assessments. Board President Charlotte Meadows confirmed Tuesday morning that Unity stopped providing services to the school around early December. "It’s not totally clear what's going on but they have decided to pull their operations from LEAD Academy almost two months ago," Meadows said. According to the contract with Unity, the company was being paid 13% of all gross revenue (federal, state and local) received during the school year, equaling about $30,000 a ...

Drawing inception of Woodland Preparatory https://www.alreporter.com/2020/01/27/opinion-north-carolina-mother-sheds-light-on-alabama-charter-school-mess/?fbclid=IwAR1VAxlGByXUP8dJ-Vh4OcfKU9obwH5q9h5Ef9YandtTVAXIZpxURLwshtE Editor’s note:   Alyson Ford is a mother in the Charlotte, NC area.  It wasn’t long after she enrolled one of her sons in a charter school that she began to feel something was amiss.  Soon she was attending board meetings of the school and digging into financial records.  What she found was disturbing and even led to conversations with the FBI. What does this have to do with Alabama?  Many of the players Alyson has uncovered are involved with American Charter Development of Springville, Utah.  This company is heavily involved with both LEAD Academy in Montgomery and Woodland Prep in Washington County and has close ties to Soner Tarim. Here is Alyson’s story: “I have two boys.  One has only attende...

Woodland Prep Playing Legal Games by  Larry Lee  |  Jan 17, 2020  |  Charter Schools  | Gang of Four Last August the Alabama Education Association filed suit in Washington County alleging that Sonar Tarim, the Texas education consultant working with Woodland Prep charter school falsified information submitted to the state charter school commission. The initial hearing on this suit is scheduled for Jan. 21 before Circuit Court Judge Gaines McCorquodale in Chatom. But given the charter’s track record of evasion and misrepresentation of the facts, it came as no surprise when lawyers for Woodland Prep filed a last-minute motion to “dismiss, re-set the hearing, and seal the proceedings.” In other words, they wanted to delay the start of the proceeding and then hide things from the public.  An attorney told me that the effort to seal the proceedings in a civil action was highly unusual. Among other things, Woodland Prep’s contention is th...

Senator: While you and I could not disagree much more on what we need to do to help Alabama schools and educators, I have never questioned that you are a successful politician and businessman. You could have tremendous impact on education in this state–if you would listen to real educators and teachers instead of latching onto whatever shiny object comes along. Take the charter school law you sponsored in 2015, for instance. Soner Tarim of the Gulen Movement Even though charters have been around for more than 20 years and have a very dubious track record (there are no public schools in New Orleans, only charters, but no one holds up New Orleans as what they want their schools to be), we were told that Alabama had the best charter law in the country. But five years later, no way this is true. While we were promised a race car, we now see that we got a go-cart instead. The law is being ignored in certain cases and schools that have opened are not being held account...

Harmony Parent the TRUTH: Soner Tarim to attempt Royal Public Schools in Tex... : Soner Tarim has been a busy man, in the last month he was dismissed from the contract with LEAD Academy in Montgomery, Alabama under his &qu...