Gülen movement chartered two hundred US schools via lawmaker junkets

Evidence

According to the Center for Public Integrity, between 2006 and 2015 the Gülen religious movement funded more than one hundred and fifty international junkets for American lawmakers—some of whom later introduced resolutions supporting the nearly two hundred American charter schools linked to the movement. In addition to Harmony, Gülen-affiliated groups operate other charter networks in the United States, giving Gülen-affiliated schools robust representation within the charter sector. — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 790

Categorization

• QUESTION: This reveals a non-Christian religious bloc runs a sizeable US charter slice — worth clarifying how the church-state and foreign-interference angles intersect here.
• SHARE: Serendipity: the chapter that begins with American Christian charterization ends up with a Turkish imam’s network — worth flagging for anyone tracking how taxpayer-funded school choice invited foreign religious movements in.
• SEED: A contrarian angle: when public schooling is privatized as ‘choice,’ the result is a wide-open ecosystem into which any well-funded religious or foreign movement can plug, not merely homegrown Christian nationalists.