{"id":1899197,"date":"2023-03-16T11:57:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T15:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-government-tells-elite-high-school-to-cut-ties-with-chinese-government\/"},"modified":"2023-03-16T11:58:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T15:58:28","slug":"virginia-government-tells-elite-high-school-to-cut-ties-with-chinese-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-government-tells-elite-high-school-to-cut-ties-with-chinese-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia government tells elite high school to \u2018cut ties\u2019 with Chinese government"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvirginia-government-tells-elite-high-school-to-cut-ties-with-chinese-government%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1899197&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-7 col-lg-8 col-xl-9 float-left body colgap-l-50\" itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\">\n<div class=\"ArticlePage-articleBodyWrapper\">\n<div class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div id=\"Brid_78207158\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:16; height:9;\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">                <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Chinese President Xi Jinping issues rare rebuke of US for 'suppression against us'\">               <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Chinese leader Xi Jinping issued a rare public rebuke of the United States for embarking on a crusade to thwart China's rise. 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She pressed the school system about revelations that Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology and the TJHSST Partnership Fund had been compromised. &#8220;accepted significant financial contributions from entities known to have connections to the Chinese Communist Party.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><b>VIRGINIA HIGH SCHOOL WORKED WITH CHINESE MILITARY-LINKED ORG<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Virginia-based school <u>To assist China and the Tsinghua University High School (or TUHS), we partnered with them<\/u> Adopting science, technology engineering, and mathematics (or STEM) and advanced laboratory research. Tsinghua University is closely connected to TUHS. <u>considered<\/u> The Pentagon will be a Chinese military university. <\/p>\n<p>Guidera spoke to FCPS on Wednesday &#8220;direct schools within your division to cut ties with CCP-linked partners&#8221; She said that she had spoken to her department. &#8220;investigate the prevalence of such relationships between CCP-linked partners and local school divisions&#8221; across Virginia. <\/p>\n<p>Virginia&#8217;s education secretary claimed that revelations had been made. &#8220;a Virginia high school accepted contributions from CCP-linked entities&#8221; were &#8220;concerning, and warrant a response regarding the nature of these funds.&#8221; Guidera requested FCPS to disclose the exact amount of money that the TJ Fund had received from Chinese entities, the method by which those funds were used, as well as whether any Chinese entities were involved. &#8220;provided any guidance, influence, or instructional materials related to content taught&#8221; TJHSST. <\/p>\n<p>Guidera also questioned FCPS about whether &#8220;any non-public student information&#8221; Oder &#8220;any instructional materials, class schedules, and individual performance or evaluation indicators&#8221; They were also provided to Chinese entities. <\/p>\n<p>After a Virginia government inquiry, <i>Washington Examiner<\/i> Investigations into the saga. <\/p>\n<p>Parents Defending Education (PDE), a non-profit organization <u>helped unearth<\/u> The Chinese funding for TJHSST was and had <u>Virginia&#8217;s Republican Governor. Glenn Youngkin to investigate<\/u>. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are grateful that Gov. Youngkin and Secretary Guidera have taken swift steps to investigate the scope of this scandal \u2014 not only at TJ, but throughout the Commonwealth,&#8221; Nicole Neily, President of the PDE, said. &#8220;This incident highlights the acute need for federal lawmakers to address this problem going forward, and to mandate disclosure of foreign funding to America&#8217;s K-12 schools.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>FCPS attempted to defend the agreement between TJHSST (Chinese entities) and FCPS. Julie Moult is the media relations manager at FCPS. <i>Washington Examiner<\/i> Last week, TJHSST was &#8220;world-renowned&#8221; That and more &#8220;it is not unusual for elite public schools, colleges, and universities in the U.S. to benefit from donations and grants from various sources, including international sources.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><b>CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM THE WASHINGTON XAMINER<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>FCPS did not respond when FCPS was asked for comment regarding the new state-level probe. <\/p>\n<div id=\"dsk-banner-ad-g\"><\/div>\n<p>The TJPF <u>Tsinghua University provided hundreds of thousands in funding<\/u> As part of the agreement with TUHS. TJPF also received hundreds and thousands of dollars from Ameson Education and Cultural Exchange Foundation. <u>Chinese government campaigns for foreign influence<\/u>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;Read more from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/virginia-government-tells-high-school-cut-china-ties\">Virginia government tells elite high school to \u2018cut ties&#8217; with Chinese government<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Virginia Education Department directed Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) to \u201ccut ties\u201d with Chinese government-linked entities after it was revealed by the Washington Examiner that one of its elite high schools had collaborated with a Chinese military-linked group for years. Virginia Secretary of Education Aimee Guidera sent a letter to FCPS Superintendent Michelle Reid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1899199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[4117,9677,4069,5045,3924,4425,3864,5468],"class_list":["post-1899197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-chinese","tag-cut","tag-elite","tag-government","tag-school","tag-tells","tag-ties","tag-virginia"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1899197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1899199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1899197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1899197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1899197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}