{"id":1983289,"date":"2023-07-26T15:40:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T19:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jim-banks-demands-cardona-investigate-chinese-influence-in-k-12-schools\/"},"modified":"2023-07-26T15:42:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T19:42:31","slug":"jim-banks-demands-cardona-investigate-chinese-influence-in-k-12-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jim-banks-demands-cardona-investigate-chinese-influence-in-k-12-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Banks urges Cardona to probe Chinese influence in K-12 schools."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fjim-banks-demands-cardona-investigate-chinese-influence-in-k-12-schools%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=1983289&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--><h2>Rep. Jim Banks \u2063Calls\u2063 for Investigation \u200cinto Chinese \u200bCommunist Party&#8217;s\u200c Influence on K-12 Schools<\/h2>\n<p>Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) has urged\u2062 Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to \u2063order a Department\u2063 of\u200d Education \u200dinvestigation\u200c into the\u200d Chinese Communist \u200cParty&#8217;s influence on \u200bthe nation&#8217;s K-12 schools. \u200bThis comes after a \u2063new report from the\u200d parent activist group Parents Defending Education revealed the\u2063 flow of\u2064 money from the Chinese government into the\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/caruzo-3-years-later-venezuelas-true-president-is-just-background-noise\/\" title=\"Caruzo \u2013 3 Years Later, Venezuela\u2019s True President Is Just Background Noise\">education infrastructure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I write \u200cto convey \u200cmy concerns \u2063about\u200b a report published this week by Parents\u200d Defending Education, which \u2062describes millions of \u200cdollars flowing from\u200b the\u200c People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC) into\u200b America\u2019s K-12 schools,&#8221; Banks wrote in his \u200dletter. &#8220;Evidence\u2063 included \u2063in the \u200breport\u200b shows \u2063contracts coordinated between PRC \u2064governmental\u200d [organizations] and U.S. schools,\u2064 involving\u200b Confucius\u2064 Institutes (CIs) and \u200dother PRC-controlled entities designed to enhance Beijing\u2019s soft power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The report, titled &#8220;Little Red Classrooms,&#8221; highlights that \u200d143 school districts have or had partnerships\u200d with Confucius Institutes to provide &#8220;Confucius Classrooms&#8221;\u200d programming\u2062 at the K-12 level. Confucius Institutes, Chinese-funded institutes at U.S.\u200d universities, have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jim-banks-demands-cardona-investigate-chinese-influence-in-k-12-schools\/\" title=\"Jim Banks urges Cardona to probe Chinese influence in K-12 schools.\">faced\u200b increased\u2064 scrutiny \u200cdue<\/a> \u2063to concerns that they are being used \u200cto push propaganda efforts on behalf of\u2063 the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n<p>Under the \u200dTrump administration, the Department of Education launched\u200d investigations \u200cinto foreign influence in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-survival-guide-for-conservatives-during-the-biden-years\/\" title=\"A Survival Guide for Conservatives During the Biden Years\">higher education<\/a>, leading to\u200d the closure of several \u200dinstitutes. Banks emphasized the need to ensure that K-12 \u200cschools are\u2064 not being funded by America&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hawley-says-hell-vote-no-on-allowing-sweden-and-finland-to-join-nato\/\" title=\"Hawley Says He\u2019ll Vote \u2018No\u2019 on Allowing Sweden and Finland to Join NATO\">greatest foreign adversary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;For decades, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) \u200chas worked\u2063 to\u200b exert\u200d influence over \u200bAmerica\u2019s education system, an effort that Xi Jinping has\u2063 dramatically amplified,&#8221; Banks\u2064 wrote.\u2062 &#8220;By instituting CIs, \u2062Confucius Classrooms, and\u2064 similar partnerships \u2014 which American school districts often mistake as\u200c benign affiliations and\u200b grants \u2062\u2014 Beijing has been able to establish ties with \u200cU.S. schools all across\u200b the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Banks, who is running for a Senate\u2063 seat\u200b in Indiana, called on the Department of Education to conduct an audit to determine the extent \u200bof funding from \u2064&#8221;hostile adversaries&#8221; in \u200dK-12 schools. He\u2063 also \u200burged the department to analyze the access foreign governments have gained to the nation&#8217;s \u200bschools and implement solutions to \u2063halt foreign \u200binfluence and \u2064intellectual property\u2062 theft.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As \u2064I hope you agree, the PRC is the United \u2063States&#8217;s\u200b biggest \u2064geopolitical adversary,&#8221;\u2062 Banks emphasized. &#8220;We should\u2062 take every measure to strengthen our defenses against\u2062 this adversary, which must include blocking their ability to propagandize \u200din America\u2019s K-12 schools. I call on you\u2063 to \u200bimmediately address this issue with the urgency it deserves and look forward\u2062 to your \u200bresponse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Examiner has reached out\u200c to the Department of Education \u2062for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) urged Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to launch a Department of Education probe into the Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s impact on K-12 schools. 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