A Virginia school district sold the Chinese Communist Party curriculum and blueprints of America’s top STEM magnet school so the CCP could replicate it, documents reveal.
Between 2014 and 2021, Chinese entities gave $3.6 million to the Thomas Jefferson Partnership Fund, a nonprofit ostensibly dedicated to renovating Fairfax County Public Schools’ (FCPS) Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. In return, China received insider information that it used to build a chain of 20 STEM schools in China called the “Thomas Schools.” The Thomas Schools copied the Virginia school down to its logo.
FCPS tried to hide details of the arrangement by charging Parents for Defending Education (PDE), an education watchdog group, $35,900 in public records request fees—and the secret came out only because PDE called its bluff and paid $18,000 for a portion of the documents. The…
