{"id":12658,"date":"2023-12-08T01:47:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T01:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/08\/rubio-introduces-bill-to-crack-down-on-malign-foreign-influence-in-american-schools\/"},"modified":"2023-12-08T01:47:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T01:47:38","slug":"rubio-introduces-bill-to-crack-down-on-malign-foreign-influence-in-american-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/08\/rubio-introduces-bill-to-crack-down-on-malign-foreign-influence-in-american-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio introduces bill to crack down on \u2018malign foreign influence\u2019 in American schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

FIRST ON FOX: <\/strong>Sen. Marco Rubio introduced a bill Thursday to safeguard U.S. schools from foreign adversaries\u2019 influence.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The legislation, first obtained by Fox News Digital, prohibits higher education institutions, their faculty and staff from establishing or maintaining relationships with specified individuals, or undercover foreign adversaries, referred to as \u2018covered persons.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Additionally, universities would be required to develop and enforce policies that necessitate faculty and staff disclosure of such relationships, along with guidelines to prevent these connections or identify existing ones. Institutions owned or controlled by these covered persons would eventually lose eligibility for federal funding.<\/p>\n

\u2018The integrity of our schools is one of the most basic guarantees that we should give to our students. Current federal policies to protect our students from adversaries are incomplete and disappointing. The U.S. is being infiltrated through its educational institutions,\u2019 Rubio said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018This bill aims to close those gaps, securing a robust defense against malign foreign influence in our classrooms,\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n

The bill comes as the bipartisan, bicameral U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission sent its annual report to Congress last month. One of its 30 recommendations requested that the House and Senate \u2018address China\u2019s state-sponsored influence and interference\u2019 within U.S. education.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rubio\u2019s bill doesn\u2019t stop at higher education; it also targets K-12 schools. States receiving administrative funds for schools must create rules stopping school staff from having relationships with identified foreign adversaries. The secretary of education also has to report these relationships to Congress each year, and private schools run by covered persons won\u2019t be eligible for federal funds.<\/p>\n

For educational institutions receiving gifts or contracts from foreign sources, the bill would reduce the minimum value for reporting such gifts or contracts from $250,000 to $50,000 and expand reporting obligations to include faculty and staff, not just the institution.<\/p>\n

Exemptions from foreign agent registration only stand if the activities don\u2019t further a foreign government\u2019s political agenda and compliance with these rules becomes a prerequisite for federal funding.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., is cosponsoring the legislation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In September, a congressional hearing entitled, \u2018Academic Freedom Under Attack: Loosening the CCP\u2019s Grip on America\u2019s Classrooms,\u2019 explored alleged CCP influence in American schools through Confucius Classrooms, whose stated purpose is to promote Chinese language and culture. They have been described by the National Association of Scholars as \u2018a smaller version\u2019 of the Confucius Institutes.<\/p>\n

In July, Parents Defending Education (PDE), a grassroots organization dedicated to fighting indoctrination in the classroom, said it uncovered disturbing evidence linking Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-sponsored financial entities to American K-12 schools.<\/p>\n

The findings were detailed in a report dubbed \u2018Little Red Classrooms,\u2019 which was sent to 34 governors, key lawmakers and committee chairs.<\/p>\n

Fox News\u2019 Brian Flood and Gabriel Hays contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

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