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| Ali Kuran, new Principal at Quest Charter Academy |
After two tumultuous years at Quest, Blackstone is out and moving on as a Regional Superintendent. Quest also lost two deans this past year, Dean Stockman and Dean Armstrong. The charter school has also experienced significant changes on their school board, with the appointment of two new board members - Marcia Bolden and Tom Fliege - who were appointed to replace Roberta Parks and Al Hooks. Parks is leaving with a year left on her term and Hooks' term expired.
Quest's new principal, is a current Concept Schools employee and will be coming from Horizon Science Academy, which is currently in continuous improvement.
Administrative changes at Quest Charter Academy
As it prepares to open its high school program, Quest Charter Academy has announced administrative changes for the 2012-2013 school year.
The PCSI Board appointed Mr. Ali Kuran, as the new principal at Quest Charter Academy at their July 24, 2012 meeting.
Mr. Kuran was most recently the Director at Horizon Science Academy, a Concept Schools-managed community school in Dayton, Ohio. Mr. Kuran has spent his entire educational career at Horizon Science Academies in Ohio. He started as a Mathematics teacher in 2003 at Horizon Columbus and became the Dean of Academics in 2005 at the Horizon Columbus High School. From there, Mr. Kuran transferred to Horizon Dayton in 2006 as the Dean of Academics. He took over the Directorship position in February 2009 and has been serving as a school leader since then. (click images to enlarge)
Ali Kuran graduated from Bosphorus University in Istanbul where he received his Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics. He later continued his education at University of Dayton and earned his Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership. Mr. Kuran currently holds an Ohio 5-yr Professional Principal License and a 5-yr Professional Teaching License in Mathematics.
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A Plus = “Excellent with Distinction A = “Excellent”
B = “Effective” C = “Continuous Improvement”
D = “Academic Watch” F = “Academic Emergency”
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Ali Kuran graduated from Bosphorus University in Istanbul where he received his Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics. He later continued his education at University of Dayton and earned his Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership. Mr. Kuran currently holds an Ohio 5-yr Professional Principal License and a 5-yr Professional Teaching License in Mathematics.
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| Transitioning amidst constant change at Quest Charter Academy |
As a committed educator, Mr. Kuran is dedicated to seeing youth receive a quality education in a caring community school while learning the importance of shaping their own future. He has a great deal of passion for working with students, parents, staff and the entire community. Over the past three years, he played a key role in the expansion of Horizon in Dayton. Number of schools increased from one to three and enrollment increased from 175 to almost 600. Mr. Kuran has built relationships with area colleges and Horizon is now partnering with University of Dayton, Wright State University and Cedarville University.
At a later date, Quest Charter Academy will hold a press conference to introduce Mr. Kuran to the community in conjunction with a ribbon cutting at its newest location, the former Columbia Middle School on Bootz Avenue. Source
22 comments:
So what does the current board have against Americans as Administrators? Glad to see that Parks is out. My guess is friction between Barton and The self anointed "Queen of the world".
And the wall came crumbling down!
"After two tumultuous years at Quest, Blackstone is out. "
That's misleading. Blackstone is now a regional superintendant, overseeing schools that include Quest.
The post is not about where Blackstone is, you can read about that over on the Sourced blog. This post is about the administrative change over at Quest Charter Academy.
Emerge, I can't get that "source" to open to a webpage. Anything you can do to help? Thanks!
Try it now.
Where is the source blog? I don't understand why they didn't buy Lakeview and the YWCA and move all of Quest there. It was a beautiful campus. And could have had the HS in one building and the other hold the middle school. It would have been easy access, close to the library, and etc.
That is it...thank you so much!
That would have been too logical, Anonymous. The more complicated, the better - don't ya know?
shameless attempt to drive traffic to the Source blog
They would have to pay for Lakeview. This group wants to use public money as much as possible for their private school.
If they would have used the county loan and Glen Barton's loan, maybe they could have found more investors to help purchase Lakeview and YWCA. All they did at the moment was relieve the District of two buildings that need a lot of work which isn't worth it and the schools are still going to be the same. They would probably have gone for about $20,000 at auction. The students would have more pride in a newer building. Look at all the private schools, they are in nice buildings. And no it isn't a shameless attempt, I really don't know the source blog. Sorry. I'm not that computer literate. Thats ok, I don't need to know it.
Yea, Glen Barton must be an idiot - probably hasn't run an organization in his life and wouldn't consider all of the possibilities. I mean, it's not like they're already running a school at 85% of the cost per pupil as the rest of the District and it's not like they didn't come up with millions to get the program off the ground. So, hey, why didn't those idiots come up with some more dough and buy Lakeview?
Of course Mr. Barton is not an idiot! What a silly comment! It doesn't make a business person an idiot just because they don't know how to run a school.
Great post and research, Emerge. Thanks.
Now does anyone out there still believe that Quest is not part of the Turkish/Islamic Gulen movement? It's sooo obvious.
See previous posts on my blog, www.peoriastory.com for the questions surrounding the Gulen movement, or google it.
"... Run a school."
You mean buy up property you can't afford?
http://peoriastory.typepad.com/peoriastory/2012/06/more-questions-about-charter-schools-quest.html
http://peoriastory.typepad.com/peoriastory/2011/06/peorias-quest-charter-school-principal-was-at-ohio-schools-under-investigation.html
"Mr. Kuran currently holds an Ohio 5-yr Professional Principal License and a 5-yr Professional Teaching License in Mathematics."
Will he need to obtain a license for Illinois, or will the Ohio license suffice?
He needs to be Illinois certified, or those states are reciprocal to Illinois. I believe, and I may be wrong, then they get updated certificates from the ISBE.
This whole QUEST thing is weird. NO THANKS!
Quest is good for some students. Don't just write them off.
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