Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools district is no stranger to controversy, but this time thedistrict is in hot water over something aside from its controversial curriculum.
According to Parents Defending Education, Thomas Jefferson High School, a nationally-revered STEM school in the district, has received more than $1 million-worth of donations from Chinese-backed groups since 2014.
But some critics have questioned if those funds have been directly funneled into the district’s support of critical race theory and related sexual education materials.
Wai Wah Chin, founding president of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance, argued the Chinese donations are an effort to divide the American people against one another on “Fox & Friends First.”
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“We don’t know that there’s any direct money going into the programs to teach CRT and trans, although those [are] two items that they’re pushing,” Chin told Todd Piro Wednesday. “So if you wanted to make your people divided, this is the one way of doing it. When you pit groups against one another in CRT and then for transgender education, you’re really separating yourself also… between families.”
“Very often it’s families pitted against one member against another, so for them to fund this tremendous amount of money, it’s astonishing to find out that there was so much money going into your top schools over here,” she continued. “It’s alarming.”
The Thomas Jefferson Partnership Fund (TJPF) began in 2013 to fundraise for the TJHS renovation project., and reportedly received money from three Chinese-affiliated groups over the last decade: Shirble HK, Tsinghua University (Beijing) and the Ameson Foundation through the TJPF.
Donor list for Thomas Jefferson Partnership Fund; showing donations from China. (Parents Defending Education)
Parents Defending Education obtained the TJPF’s campaign donor list recently, which…
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