Applied Scholastics - Infodump & summary thread - background and current events 2011

This is meant to be an infodump / summary thread of research, articles and threads regarding Applied Scholastics.

For new people, start here:

Dr. David S. Touretzky's web site, which explains Scientology "Study Tech" and why it is dangerous:

http://www.studytech.org/study_tech.php

Then here, where Dr. Touretzky explains the basics of Applied Scholastics, the education front group of Scientology:

http://www.studytech.org/asi.php

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On now to WWP threads on Applied Scholastics.
Pick and choose whatever threads sound interesting to you.

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Research threads, with lots of facts and dox

Debunking Applied Scholastics Research & Results Papers (2010)

List of States Using Applied Scholastics (Wiki)

Applied Scholastics Global Locator (2008)
(note to this ^ , the current Official Applied Scholastics website in 2011 claims there are now
over 500 Applied Scholastics schools worldwide)

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Information and Activism threads

Anonymous Announces “Operation: School’s Closed” (2008)

Applied Scholastics in Your Public Schools Now (2009)

OPERATION SCHOOL POON - Stop The Infiltration (2010)

Dump Applied Scholastics - No Child Left Behind up for review (2010)

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Money threads

Boston Herald: Foundation awards $20K for new school based on Applied Scholastics (2008)

Australian Gov. to give Scientology school $1.6 million (2009)

Kansas City gave Applied Scholastics $77K from 2008 to 2010

Applied Scholastics - Anaheim CA School District - 2010 to 2011 contract

Oxnard CA gave Applied Scholastics $6K in Nov 2010

Native American tribe purchased $5,500 in Applied Scholastics services in Q4 2010

DC Public Schools awarded $6K tutoring contract to Applied Scholastics in March (2010)

DC gave another $10K to Applied Scholastics in Dec 2010

Santa Ana Schools gave Applied Scholastics $29K in 2009 / 2010

Vallejo City Schools gave Applied Scholastics $11K in 2011, $9K in 2010, $4K in 2009

Applied Scholastics Australia English Course costs AU$4,860

Delphian School fees for 2011 / 2012 ($40k)

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Independent Review threads

Applied Scholastics no longer on approved list in 4 states (2010)

Applied Scholastics Alberta rated *themselves* "Very Low" in Student Learning Achievement in 2009

Applied Scholastics Tennessee rated "Marginal Quality" in user survey Oct 2010

Applied Scholastics put on probation this school year (2010 - 2011)

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Assorted threads of interest

ANONYMOUS MEETS with WILL SMITH HIMSELF - WS Justifies Study Tech (Result of 9/8 NVA)

Applied Scholastisc using H-1 B visas to import foreign "skilled" teachers

Sacramento schools offering FREE tutoring by Applied Scholastics

Christian Mime Ministry & Retreat at Applied Scholastics MO : 28 - 31 July 2011

Applied Scholastics issuing diplomas?

Applied Scholastics sponsors 4 Haitian children

Scientology trying to infiltrate 1Malaysia program?

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Misleading thread

> No evidence yet to back up claims <

Applied Scholastics out of the revised SES

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So, that should keep any new people busy for a while.

Please feel free to add more dox and relevant links here.

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AnonLover's dox on Applied Scholastics, compiled late 2009 - early 2010:

AppliedScholasticsExposed2010.pdf - an info pak for ease of letter writing campaigns. I used
this to blindly harpoon a couple of teacher associations / unions in states that had SES approval
where we didnt seem to have local anons saying "zomg - not my state!!!"

CChannelsExcerpts1.pdf - Excerpts taken from scilons internal documents released on Wikileaks
in 2008 & caused a shitstorm called "The Command Channels of Scientology".

CEC-excerpts1.pdf - Excerpts taken from scilons internal documents released on Wikileaks in
2009 & caused a shitstorm called "Clear Expansion Committee documents".

The last two documents shows how intimately connected applied scholastics and their other

education groups are too dissemination of LRH religous teachings and blatantly serves as

recruitment effort done thru secular venues.

IAS25thAnniversary-AS.pdf - Excerpts of scilon propaganda re: applied scholastic taken from
the gigantic annual issue of Impact magazine, 100+ pages of ultimate smarmyness where they
show off all the big dollar patron & donors who are supposedly supporting the front group campaigns.

Tutor Trap: How Scientology recruits the next generation - An investigation into how Applied
Scholastics, a Scientology front group, and the secular franchise operated in Munich in 1997.

Can L. Ron Hubbard's "study technology" make kids smarter? - A critical review of
Scientology study technology that's used in both private faith-based schools and sold to the
private sector, sometimes via government funding for SES Providers ...

Good shit. Lots of information to be found here - thumbs up for you, sir.
TL;DR for incredibly lazy people: David Miscavige is a highschool dropout and

Study Tech sucks ass.

RE: Applied Scholastics receiving federal education Supplemental Educational Services monies.

At least two state departments of education are now investigating the Applied Scholastics tutoring programs that are part of the state and federally-funded Supplemental Educational Services (SES) program. What the investigators need are first person accounts of families who enrolled their children in the Applied Scholastics SES after-school programs and were dis-satisfied and how and why did they pull out.

I have explained to the investigators that when families contact any of us concerned with the Applied Scholastics tutoring program in the public education SES program, we generally advise them to NOT file a formal complaint but rather pull out and get another SES service provider. (This was certainly excellent and prudent advice when G.W. Bush was in office..... he had appointed Scientologist John Danielson as Chief of Staff to Sec'y of Education Rod Paige from 2001-2005, although this was not public knowledge until Nov. 2007. Those of us expressing concern about Scientology programs in public education who were within the public teaching and/or academic profession at the time would receive phone calls, e-mails and letters from unknown people questioning what we were doing. We did not want families under similar pressure.)

IF you have direct knowledge about a family being dis-satisfied with Applied Scholastics in the Supplemental Educational Services program and the family wants to talk to a department of education investigator, please contact your state department of education and ask if there is an investigation. If so, have a cogent statement available from the family. If there has not yet been an investigation begun, your phone call might trigger one.

Very happy to see that anons involved in education and SES are following up on this.

I love you, anon. Keep being you, cuz you rock.

Same here. No idea who that anon is, but it's great to see someone who knows what they are talking about, with knowledge about the education system, being proactive in exposing Applied Scholastics to the Department of Education. Nice work, love the initiative.

Someone advised that a reporter is snooping around, looking for info about Applied Scholastics.

Here is a short list of 2 links that I suggest for reporters.

Other anons, please feel free to post links that you think will be helpful for reporters, without them having to spend hours and hours reading.

Here's my dox on Applied Scholastics, compiled late 2009 - early 2010:

AppliedScholasticsExposed2010.pdf - an info pak for ease of letter writing campaigns. i used this to blindly harpoon a couple of teacher associations / unions in states that had SES approval where we didnt seem to have local anons saying "zomg - not my state!!!"

^^Missiouri may have been one of 'em, i got not replies bak and eventually tossed the files. The list of states with SES approvals in that pdf IS NOT CURRENT, copypasta was put on a wiki page and others kept it up to date after me (and I'm not sure if page was recovered from wiki backup site yet)

CChannelsExcerpts1.pdf - Excerpts taken from scilons internal documents released on Wikileaks in 2008 & caused a shitstorm called "The Command Channels of Scientology".

CEC-excerpts1.pdf - Excerpts taken from scilons internal documents released on Wikileaks in 2009 & caused a shitstorm called "Clear Expansion Committee documents".

The last two documents shows how intimately connected applied scholastics and their other education groups are too dissemination of LRH religous teachings and blatantly serves as recruitment effort done thru secular venues.


EDiT - forgot one...

IAS25thAnniversary-AS.pdf - Excerpts of scilon propaganda re: applied scholastic taken from the gigantic annual issue of Impact magazine, 100+ pages of ultimate smarmyness where they show off all the big dollar patron & donors who are supposedly supporting the front group campaigns.

^^This was year ending 2009, a 2010 version should be floating around somewhere for more recent version of same old recruiting schtick. find me the ling and I'll slice and dice it down for educational group stuff.

(chuckles) oh look, i have more dox i forgots here too...

http://www.scribd.com/collections/2480030/Applied-Scholastics-dox

Nice.

I had a bad ling on the info pack pdf ^^upstream, its now fix'd.

Links and formatting recovered so that page looks pretty again, altho i didnt verify the accuracy of the states currently on the list (assuming those all still stand). The note on the list also indicates the updated SES provider lists by state weren't fully available when last it was trimmed for drop offs, so it may need some 2011 corrections. But atleast now its readable.

Coming soon to the scribd collection i posted above - a 2011 version of the info pack + the other materials currently on media fire repackage'd & bullet proofed for proper fair use reuse.

^^Now updated for all known providers for 2010-11 school year, including fresh hyperlinks where needed but contact names not chk'd.

Fresh status update included at the top of the list of infiltrated states...

List of States Using Applied Scholastics (Wiki)

Here's the list of the 9 states that currently approve Applied Scholastics cult infiltration in our public schools

District of Columbia

Illinois

Indiana

Louisiana

Massachusetts

Missouri

Tennessee

Texas

Washington State

moved this here form other thread
TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY

Supplemental Educational Services 2007-2008

http://www.sirctexas.net/ses/docs/07-08%20Approved%20Providers/Applied%20Scholastics_Amend_%209-07.pdf

New Mexico was prematurely ejaculated... its still in mix altho some eligible school districts appear to not carry it on their school-specific list of SES providers. So we got 10 states instead of 9.

^^Fixed

AAAAArrrrrrgj.... while finishing up the 2011 update to my info pack & re-chking all the links/contacts in directory at the end, i found previously undiscovered cult infiltration:

Applied Scholastics International Got Approved in Iowa July 2010
http://www.iowa.gov/educate/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=7958&Itemid=1507

wiki list of approved states to be updated soonly

EDIT: harpooners - u know what to do. i'll fire my usual poons once info pack update is done.

^^Updated

All states nao re-verified for Applied Scholastics being listed on the 2010-11 Approved Providers list, and all states checked for Applied Scholastics dba SomeFictitiousBiznessName for covert infiltration possibilities. All clean - Iowa was the only later bloomer we missed for current school year.

one last thing to check and WANTED ITT: proxy up copypasta harvesting venture to appliedscholastics dot org, and grab a dump of all ASI franchises & certified tutor names currently indexed in the "global locator" for all States and US Territories.

The franchise owner/tutor names can then be dbl check'd in state bizness registration records to see if their actively peddling Applied Scholastics under alternate (cleverly disguised) name thats not yet on our radar.

Much <3 for any ^^HALP lended.

Gotta go protest our favourite cult. I probably won't have time to get to this until Monday but I'll get on it then. Keep up the good work!

Applied Scholastics Global Locator Listings harvested as of April 09 2011 for US States AL - CA

Applied Scholastics Global Locator Listings harvested as of April 09 2011 for CA continued

Applied Scholastics Global Locator Listings harvested as of April 09 2011 for CA continued

Applied Scholastics Global Locator Listings harvested as of April 09 2011 for US States CO - FL

Applied Scholastics Global Locator Listings harvested as of April 09 2011 for FL continued

Applied Scholastics Global Locator Listings harvested as of April 09 2011 for US States HI - MN

Applied Scholastics Global Locator Listings harvested as of April 09 2011 for US States MO - NV

Applied Scholastics Global Locator Listings harvested as of April 09 2011 for US States NY - WI

/USAglobal-locator-dump

No US Territories listed.

^^Thanks! I'll starting running checks for potential SES Providers running under alternate business names in the states where ASI lost it's approval status first, followed by states where no SES infiltration has occurred.

and i'll leave the digging up further info on ASI tutors/academies in the 11 states where ASI has a current SES approval up to the localfags working those sectors.

crossposting from old project thread... the Applied Scholastics Exposed info pack & related materials is now complete!

Special thanks to OTBT, studytech.org and misc. leakers for providing the sauce that went into this compilation. /bows

Note: i havent run all the digdeeper cross checks on the Global Locator info dump upstream ITT. But these dox should still be good2go unless by chance we discover newly infected state under a disguised name to add to the list approved locations, & then I'll just spin a qckie update to the main document as needed.

(drumroll)

Applied Scholastics Exposed Info Pack 2011 (ver3)

• Main document - Harpooning ammo & Monitoring toolkit: Applied Scholastics Exposed Info Pack
• Extended collection of info pack + other stuff for easy dissemination: Applied Scholastics Exposed Dox Collection
• Fileshare Dox Collection - same as above plus includes some orig. sauce materials for more flexible reuse: Applied Scholastics dox

bump

well done AnonLover

Although this is not strictly Applied Scholastics, it is close enough. And the tactics are familiar to those os us who have dealt with Applied Scholastics over the years.


Has anyone else run across "Good Choices Program"? Please check with your state department of education. Generally when Scientology tries one avenue in one state they are also doing parallel avenues in other states.


lllinois education committee says resolution’s Scientology link inappropriate for public schools

May 11, 2011

Washington Post

By Associated Press,

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Not even the voice of Bart Simpson could convince Illinois lawmakers to approve a resolution aimed at teaching character in public schools because of its link to the Church of Scientology.
The resolution endorsed a program called Good Choices as an example of how to teach morals and values. The program is based on “The Way to Happiness” by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.
Actress Nancy Cartwright, a Scientologist who also provides Bart’s voice on the U.S. version of “The Simpsons,” testified before a House education committee that the program has “nothing to do with religion.”
She said it stresses moral concepts such as respecting others’ religion, living up to promises and treating other people the way you want to be treated.
“This book is not part of any religious doctrine,” Cartwright said.
Opponents contend the Good Choices Program is closely associated with Scientology beliefs and promoting it in schools would violate the separation of church and state.
Rob Sherman, a Buffalo Grove atheist activist, said the Good Choices Program book says on its cover that it is based on “The Way to Happiness.” He said students could easily search the Internet for that title and discover a link to Scientology, which he said would be akin to advocating a religious text in public schools.
The resolution sponsored by Rep. Dan Burke, D-Chicago, lists Good Choices as one of several successful programs for teaching character. It commends Good Choices’ ”common sense guidelines covering specific tools to help children evaluate situations and make good decisions that will improve life for themselves and others.”
Burke acknowledged the link between Scientology and Good Choices was stronger than he realized. Burke said he would rewrite the resolution and bring it up again later.
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The resolution is HR254.

The links to the above article are, as follows:

Online: http://www.ilga.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/ill-education-committee-says-resolutions-scientology-link-inappropriate-for-public-schools/2011/05/11/AFOp8LrG_story.html

FTFY

Thank you.

If you check the url, you will see that as of May 17, 2011 the corrected House Committee Amendment 1 (not mentioning the "Good Choices Program" which is based on TWTH) has been referred to the Rules Committee. I hope that people are checking with their state's Education Committee (in both parts of the legislative state government) to see if the "Good Choices Program" is being presented for adoption.

Please accept my apologies for being stupid, I would very much appreciate if you could please elaborate further.

2 new additions compiled & added to this collection of dox on scribd

Applied Scholastics & Scientology: Evidence v4 - the widely spread front group graphics & excerpt taken from the International Scientology News Issue #27 from 2004 (fileshare)

Applied Scholastics & Scientology: Evidence v5 - historical references on how applied scholastics started & its connection to study tech, excerpts from The Audtor magazines in the 1970's (fileshare)

what is making the last 9 states so stubborn?
I wash the states that decided against it would share their findings with the remaining 9
maybe people can poon the states that have gotten rid of AP and ask them to send their info/thoughts to to the remaining 9?

it seems to take a couple years for the approved SES providers to cycle thru the system. so not so much a select few that are dragging their feet, but rather they seem to gain 1-2 states per year, but loose 3-4 old ones & it takes awhile to see a difference in total head count of compromised states.

well do you think it is a good idea to ask those states that have more or less given AP the boot to share thier info with other states?