Now China Is Funding America’s Public Schools: Communist China Has Spent $17M On More Than 143 K-12 Districts — Sparking GOP Probe…

by Kelly Laco at Daily Mail

• The money is funneled through Confucius Institutes and other cultural and language programs
• Rep. Jim Banks is demanding the Education Department take action with ‘urgency’
• The CCP is targeting schools to close to military bases

China is funding America’s public schools to the tune of $17 million dollars, it has been revealed, with Republicans now probing the disturbing donations.

The report by Parents Defending Education states that the close coordination between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and U.S. schools to establish Confucius Classrooms has historically included 143 school districts in 34 states and Washington, D.C.

In addition, at least seven contracts are still active in Texas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Oregon and Washington.

The report called ‘Little Red Classrooms’ reveals that $17 million has been funneled from CCP-connected financial institutions into U.S. K-12 schools, through Confucius Institutes and other cultural and language programs.

It also states that the CCP has ‘ties to school districts near 20 U.S. military bases’ and three of the nation’s top science and technology high schools have been infiltrated.

‘While the United States is not officially part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative,…